The Apprentice Boys of Derry will hold their annual Lundy’s Day parade in the city this Saturday.
This will be the 325th year of annual commemoration of the “Shutting of the Gates” at the start of the great Siege of 1688-1689 and marks the beginning of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first Apprentice Boys club in 1714.
Saturday’s main celebrations will begin at 11.30am when visiting clubs will march from the Waterside Railway Station via Duke Street, Craigavon Bridge, Carlisle Road, Hawking Street, London Street, Bishop Street, Palace Street, finishing outside the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in Society Street.
The main parade will leave Society Street at 1.15pm and make its way to St Columb’s Cathedral via Bishop Street, The Diamond, Ferryquay Street, Carlisle Road, Wapping Lane, Founatin Street, Hawkin Street and London Street.
Following a Service of Thanksgiving, the parade will re-form at 3.00pm and make its way via the earlier route in reverse, back to Bishop Street for the burning of the Effigy of Lundy the Traitor at 3.45pm.
Visiting clubs will return to the Waterside Railway Station at 4.00pm via Bishop Street, Hawkin Street, Carlisle Road, Craigavon Bridge and Duke Street.
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