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The City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge will welcome eight Districts made up of 57 Private Lodges, accompanied by 36 bands to the city for the Twelfth Celebrations.
The parade will be led by the City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge, visiting Grand and County Grand Lodge Officers, immediately behind the City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge will be Limavady District LOL No. 6, with the first band with Limavady District LOL No. 6 expected to be the Trench Memorial Flute Band
The Route to the field will be Glendermott Road, Clooney Terrace, Spencer Road, Craigavon Bridge, Carlisle Road, Ferryquay Street, The Diamond (Anti-Clockwise), Bishop Street, London Street, Hawkin Street, Kennedy Place, Kennedy Street, Wapping Lane, Craigavon Bridge, Spencer Road, Clooney Terrace, Glendermott Road, May Street, Limavady Road to the field at Wilton Park (next to Brigade Cricket Club).
The main parade will depart from Glendermott Road (end of Bonds Street) at 11.30am. It is expected the entire parade will have arrived in Wilton Park for 2pm.
The Platform Proceedings, which will be relatively short compared to previous years, will commence in the field at Wilton Park at 2.15pm. Whilst the visiting Districts of Coleraine, Limavady and Macosquin will take part in the platform proceedings, there will be no guest speakers or political speeches from the platform.
The City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge will have a local farm "Kidz Farm" in the field with a selection of animals including rabbits, guinea pigs, ducks, chickens, snake, bearded dragon, hedgehog, rats, tortoise, tarantula, lamb, goat and an alpaca. In addition, there will be a selection of inflatables, inflatable obstacle course and putt and play golf all in the field. All this entertainment will be fully supervised and be fully funded by the City of Londonderry Grand Orange Lodge and will be available free of charge to all children in the field.
The return parade will depart from Wilton Park at 3.45pm. The parade route will initially be Limavady Road, May Street and Bonds Street. Visiting Districts will then make their way to their buses on the Glendermott Road for onwards travel to their respective areas.
The City Grand Officers and two of the local Districts only will return to the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in the evening.
The new Banner dedicated by St Johnston LOL 992 in 2023 will be on parade in Londonderry – this Banner won the "Best New Banner Award" at the recent Grand Lodge Community Awards on 2nd March 2024.
In addition to the new Banner, a number of award-winning bands, which will include the William King Memorial Flute Band, the Hamilton Flute Band, the Churchill Flute Band and Killaloo Accordion Band will all be on parade in Londonderry. Killaloo Accordion Band recently had major success at the Northern Ireland Open Accordion Championships on 18th February 2024.
