1 April 2008
The 35th annual All London Mayors’ Charity Walk
City of London Lord Mayor David Lewis led the other 32 London
Mayors (aka the Chaingang) on five-mile charity walk from Dick
Whittington Memorial Stone, Highgate Hill, (near Whittington
Memorial Hospital, N16) on Sunday morning (30 March)
The 35th annual charity fund-raising event for London Mayors
Association celebrated the City’s famous (and wealthy) son – and
gives the London borough mayors and chance to catch up on each
others’ boroughs.
Lord Mayor David Lewis said: "It was a splendid idea to get all
the London Mayors out of their offices on a Sunday Walk for their
individual charities. We trod in the footsteps of Dick Whittington,
who held my office and wore my chain in 1397, 1406 and 1419."
"If he was alive today Lord Mayor Whittington would have been
busy promoting the financial services industry and he would have
been proud to see his City as the world's leading international
financial and business centre, employing 300,000 and contributing
billions to the UK and European economies."
The Walk set off from Dick Whittington (and cat) statue N16 –
where Whittington “turned again”. Then all the Mayors (in robes and
trainers) made a pit stop half way and toasted Dick Whittington at
the Garden Pub on Upper St, Islington. Bagpipers and horsemen
welcomed the Mayors into the City when they reached the City
boundary near Finsbury Circus.
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