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SUMMARY:History and Mystery at The Magic Circle
DESCRIPTION:Come visit The Magic Circle for a delightful programme that includes tea and coffee on arrival\, a close-up magic show\, a tour of our museum and a parlour magic show to finish of your stay! \nDoors open at 11am with complimentary teas and coffees served at the bar and the performance begins at 11.30am \nThe event includes tours of the HQ including highlights from the museum collection\, ‘close-up’ magic performance and a short show in the theatre. \nThe event finishes at approx 1.15pm. \nThe Magic Circle is less than a two minute walk from Euston Square Station (Circle\, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan Lines)\, a five minute walk from Warren Street (Northern and Victoria Lines) and a six to ten minute walk from Euston Station (Northern and Victoria Lines and main line trains).
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LOCATION:Private: The Magic Cicle\, 12 Stephenson Way\, Euston\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lord Mayor's Show
DESCRIPTION:The United Wards Club has been invited to take part in this year’s Lord Mayor’s Show\, along with Rotary in London\, which is sponsoring the entry. We shall be highlighting Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland’s “Purple4Polio” Campaign and will be joined a 100-year-old steam traction engine. \n \nSpaces are limited so if you wish to take part in the parade\, please email Mike Wren\, michael.wren2@gmail.com a draw will then take place to allocate your position. Please note walking; (at a fast pace 76 steps per minute) dancing and looking happy are the main requirements’. Please note that if you wish to join us it must be for the whole show.\n If you do not wish to take part\, you can watch the parade at the roadside. \n  \n******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* \n  \nTHE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW\nThe Lord Mayor’s Show is an ancient statement of the indomitable spirit of London and a modern celebration of her vigour and diversity. \nThe Show dates back to the early 13th century\, when a desperate King John allowed the City of London to appoint its own Mayor. The King insisted that each newly-elected Mayor should come to Westminster and swear loyalty to the Crown\, and the Mayor of London has been making that journey for over 800 years. Around him (and her) grew up the noisy\, colourful\, joyous procession that over the centuries became known as the Lord Mayor’s Show. \nTHE LORD MAYOR\nThe 696th Lord Mayor of London\, is Alderman Alastair King DL.\n\nGETTING HERE\nSorry: cars and buses are no help on Show day. Tubes\, boats and bicycles are much better\, the new Elizabeth Line station at Farringdon is ideally placed and there are many nice ways to walk into the City when it is free of traffic.\nWHERE TO GO\nSome suggestions for different ways to watch the Show depending on how much you like a crowd and what else you might like to do that day.\nHISTORY OF THE LORD MAYOR’S SHOW\nThe Mayor of London is an ancient office originally created by King John in a doomed attempt to get the city on his side.\nIt was 1215\, and John’s disastrous reign was falling apart. His armies were retreating in France\, his treasury was empty and his Barons were on the edge of open revolt. Soon they would force him to sign the Magna Carta\, which would be largely ignored until civil war finally broke out. John died of dysentery a year later while marching his dwindling armies from one besieged city to another.\nLondon was right in the middle of the growing conflict. It was a cosmopolitan\, international place even then: rich but vulnerable\, easy to take but hard to govern. The King’s taxes were high and the City was frequently held hostage by one or other group of warring Barons. The whole situation was very bad for business.\nThe King’s Charter for London of May 9th 1215\, now in the London Metropolitan Archive\nFor years London had been trying to become a ‘commune’: a sort of early city state that would be able to declare its borders\, make treaties and defend itself. King Richard had been an ally and King John may have thought it a smart move to go along with this. In 1215 he issued a Royal Charter that established the commune and allowed the City to choose its own Mayor every year instead of having a sheriff appointed by the King.\nKnow ye that we have granted … to our barons of our city of London\, that they may choose to themselves every year a mayor\, who to us may be faithful\, discreet and fit for government of the city\, so as\, when he shall be chosen\, to be presented unto us\, or our Justice if we shall not be present… and he shall swear to be faithful to us…\nAt the end there you can see a careful condition: every year the newly elected Mayor must leave the safety of the City\, travel upriver to Westminster and swear loyalty to the King.\nLondon in around 1300: a walled town separated by open country from distant Westminster\, where the King had his base.\nIn fact the loyalty of 13th century London was quite flexible and its gratitude brief. The city became a base for the rebellious barons. When they tried to get out of trouble later that year by offering the English crown to Prince Louis of France\, Londoners are said to have lined the streets to welcome the invading French army.*\nLater that year the King was brought to heel and the Magna Carta was signed. It was never meant to be a constitutional milestone\, but just another attempt to make peace. John never put his name to it\, since he could not read or write\, but among its 25 signatories we can see the second elected Mayor of London\, William Hardel. He probably gave us this part:\n13: The city of London shall enjoy all its ancient liberties and free customs\, both by land and by water. We also will and grant that all other cities\, boroughs\, towns\, and ports shall enjoy all their liberties and free customs.\nThe Mayor became known as the “Lord Mayor” about 200 years later but it has been an elected office ever since it was created\, and for the next few centuries Lord Mayor of London was by far the grandest position to which a commoner could aspire. The Lord Mayor’s Journey was the celebrity spectacle of its day and over the centuries it grew so splendid and so popular that it became known everywhere as the Lord Mayor’s Show.\nThe Show features in the plays of Shakespeare\, the diaries of Pepys and the adventures of James Bond and of course in the pantomime story of Dick Whittington\, who really was Mayor of London in three separate years. In the 20th century the Lord Mayor’s Show was the first outside event ever to be broadcast live and it still attracts a TV audience of millions.\nThe modern Lord Mayor’s procession is a direct descendant of that first journey to Westminster. The route and date have changed over the years but the pageantry of Hogarth and Canaletto can still be seen in its lively mixture of London’s past\, present and future.\nThe State Coach is over 250 years old\, and the pikemen who guard it are almost as old as the Show. Today you will see the City’s businesses\, Livery Companies\, charities\, Her Majesty’s Forces\, the City Police and Londoners from all walks of life come together to enjoy a splendid celebration of the City’s ancient power and prosperity\, just as they did in the middle ages.\n* It’s worth mentioning that England was essentially a Norman colony at the time. The real Angevin capital was in Anjou and the war was between the northern and southern Kings of France. John did very badly\, lost almost all of his French kingdom and ended up\, briefly\, something much more like the King of England. This and the concessions that he made on the way\, turned out to be some of the most important building blocks of Britain (and London).\n 
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