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FORTHCOMING MAJOR LONDON
EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
Late October/Early November
State Opening of Parliament The Queen arrives
by coach at the Houses of Parliament at 11am
accompanied by the Household Cavalry and gun
salutes. The ceremony itself takes place inside
the House of Lords and is televised; it also
takes place whenever a new government is sworn
in. Information Phone:+44 (0)20 7219 3000; www.parliament.uk.
November
London Film Festival A three-week cinematic
season with scores of new international films
screened at the National Film Theatre and some
West End venues. Information Phone:+44 (0)20
7928 3232; www.bfi.org.uk or (nearer the time)
www.lff.org.uk.
Early November
London Jazz Festival Big ten-day jazz fest held
in all London's jazz venues, large and small.
Information Phone:+44 (0)20 7405 5974.
First Sunday In November
London to Brighton Veteran Car Run In 1896 Parliament
abolished the Act that required all cars to
crawl along at 2mph behind someone waving a
red flag. Such was the euphoria in the motoring
community that a rally was promptly set up to
mark the occasion, and a century later it's
still going strong. Classic cars built before
1905 set off from Hyde Park at 7.30am and travel
the 58 miles to Brighton along the A23 at the
heady maximum speed of 20mph. Information Phone:+44
(0)20 1753 681736.
November 5
Bonfire Night In memory of Guy Fawkes - executed
for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow
up King James I and the Houses of Parliament
- effigies of the hapless Mr Fawkes are burned
on bonfires all over Britain. There are also
council-run fires and fireworks displays right
across the capital; Parliament Hill in Hampstead
provides a good vantage point from which to
take in several displays at once. Information
Phone:+44 (0)20 7971 0026.
Second Saturday In November
Lord Mayor's Show The newly appointed Lord Mayor
begins his or her day of investiture at Westminster,
leaving there at around 9am for Guildhall. At
11.10am, the vast ceremonial procession, headed
by the 1756 State Coach, begins its journey
from Guildhall to the Law Courts in the Strand,
where the oath of office is taken at 11.50am.
From there the coach and its train of 140-odd
floats make their way back towards Guildhall,
arriving at 2.20pm. Later in the day there's
a fireworks display from a barge tethered between
Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges, and a small
funfair on Paternoster Square, by St Paul's
Cathedral. Information Phone:+44 (0)20 7606
3030; www.corpoflondon.gov.uk.
Nearest Sunday To November 11
Remembrance Sunday A day of nationwide commemorative
ceremonies for the dead and wounded of the two
world wars and other conflicts. The principal
ceremony, attended by the Queen, various other
royals and the Prime Minister, takes place at
the Cenotaph in Whitehall, beginning with a
march-past of veterans and building to a one-minute
silence at the stroke of 11am.
Christmas
Each year since the end of World War II, Norway
has acknowledged its gratitude to the country
that helped liberate it from the Nazis with
the gift of a mighty spruce tree that appears
in Trafalgar Square in early December. Decorated
with lights, it becomes the focus for carol
singing versus traffic noise each evening until
Christmas Eve.
New Year's Eve
The New Year is welcomed en masse in Trafalgar
Square as thousands of inebriated revellers
stagger about and slur to Auld Lang Syne at
midnight. For the millennium, there was a big
firework display along the Thames, and it remains
to be seen whether the show will be repeated
or if the crowds will once more return to their
traditional haunt. Whatever happens, London
Transport runs free public transport all night,
sponsored by various public-spirited breweries.
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