The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will journey down river from Putney to Tower Bridge on Sunday 3 June.

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Most recently Orlando Gough wrote music for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

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Lord Salisbury, one of the senior organisers of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and chairman of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, also attended the reception.

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Now things have come full circle: The Diamond Jubilee pageant was partially inspired by the work "The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day" by 18th-century artist Canaletto.

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Meanwhile, the coxswain of the St Davids' RNLI team joined other volunteers on one of the charity's Tamar class all-weather boats as part of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

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At the time the river was virtually an open sewer, with the Houses of Parliament once having to be abandoned because MPs were "overpowered by the smell, " according to the official Diamond Jubilee Pageant website .

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Since we are fresh from the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and the Thames River pageant it is worth reminding ourselves of what has been lost since the 1977 Silver Jubilee.

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