Marching band from a previous year.(Wiki)
This year the rain blurred photographs.
Never mind if you missed it. You forgot. Or didn't want to brave the rain. Or want to see it again.
It's on You tube. The 2025 parade.
Not just Londoners. American marching bands. English and American accents from the commentators, "The World Comes To London"..
Showing Traflagar Square and Piccadilly.
The 2025 parade started with old England, the Lord mayors, past and present in historic carriages. London doesn't just have a mayor of London. It also has mayor's of bits of London, such as my area of Harrow. I loved the white carriage with white horse, and the black carriage with black horses.
London's red double decker buses were bedecked in unusual ways. Harrow Urban Farming group had greenery on an open top bus. Down on the ground marchers were carrying giant inflable fruit such as a pineapple and a banana.
Marching bands galore impressed with their playing whilst marching. Scottish pipers were replendent in tartans with their distinctive shrill bagpipes.
American marching bands were a spectacle of co-ordination, arms waving, girls in frou frou and pom poms.
High schools from the USA. Drummers. New Orleans. Mississippi.
People from all over the world were represented. Those who live in London. Others had come to visit to partake in the parade. Croatia. The Phillipines. Mexican violins. Dancing, singing, gymnastics, and motorbikes and quad vehicles friving forwards, backwards, or forwards on the back wheels, doing wheelies.
Despite the rain, lots of fun for everyone there, and you can watch it again and again, from the comfort of your chair in the warmth, back in your home, any time, day or night, any day.
You can buy items with the event initials, LNYDP, and their five point star in red or multi colours. a tee shirt, cap, beenie hat, mostly with a blue background colour, tote bag, cuff links or a fluffy toy puppy.
Event tee-shirt.
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