The Lord Mayors Show Aka The Lord Mayor Show (1925)

Item title reads - The Lord Mayor Show. Favoured with fine weather for first time for many years, thousands enjoy annual pageant - this year at “Wembley on Wheels“. M/S as Guards ride along carrying staffs, M/S of a float representing Australia, it has a giant Christmas pudding on it between a kangaroo and a cow on the back. M/S of another float with palm trees and a sign above a model cow saying ’New Zealand. ’ A third coach has a temple on top. Another has ’British West Indies The Islands of Sunshine’ written above a pile of bananas. The next float has a model of the world on it, and a sign about telegraphs on it. Intertitle - ’Five long service employees of the Lord Mayor’s firm, present an address of congratulation to “1925’s Dick Whittington.“’ M/S of the Lord Mayor’s ornate coach pulled by plumed horses, the door is opened and a scroll is presented to him. M/S as a band plays and marches in front of the coach. M/S of buglers playing in a line. M/S of people waving as the coach moves o
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