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THE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW 2014
Bro. Danjal Rein returned to the City of London to view Met brethren as they marched on our behalf in November and gives us some interesting background and snippets of information on this annual high- profile event in London's civic calendar…
T
he office of Lord Mayor dates from 1189 and it was a
requirement of its establishing charter that each Mayor travelled to the royal enclave at Westminster to present himself to the monarch's representatives, the senior Judges, as Barons of the Exchequer, to take an oath of loyalty to the Sovereign upon beginning his/her term. The event is officially listed in the City's Civic Calendar as 'The Procession to the Royal Courts of Justice and Presentation of the Lord Mayor to the Chief Justices'. When the Royal Courts moved from Westminster to the Strand location in 1882 the route was
shortened. Originally the journey was mostly made by barge on the River Thames, the usual transport for the route in those days. Pageantry and display gradually grew around the trip, and by the sixteenth century the "Show" was firmly established as a major entertainment for Londoners. The Lord Mayor's Show has not been moved since 1852, when the show made way for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's funeral. Not even the Second World War could stop the Show. The Lord Mayor has been making that journey every year for 477 years, surviving plague and fire and countless wars
Metropolitan Grand Lodge and Chapter banner bearers
WINTER 2014
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