With only a year to go before the 800th anniversary of the
Lord Mayor's Show, the 2014 procession is looking more spectacular than ever.
It has over 7000 participants, with 21 bands, 180 horses, the State Coach, 22
other carriages carts and coaches, 140 more vehicles including vintage cars,
steam buses, tanks, tractors, ambulances, fire engines, unicycles, steamrollers,
a spitfire, a viking ship, along with Masai dancers, Shaolin kung-fu dancers,
the Magna Carta, a grand piano pulled by bicycles, Napoleon and a tank.
The procession will set off from Mansion House at 11am. It
is led away by the Band of the Royal Marines and at a steady marching pace they
will take 27 minutes to get to the Royal Courts. The procession that follows is
about an hour and a quarter long, so the City's sanitation department (who
always bring up the rear) will reach the courts at 12.43pm. The return leg
leaves Temple Place at 1.10pm and the tail of the procession arrives back at
Mansion House at 2.44.
