3-053-827 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Procession to dinner, led by the Lord Mayor of York, 1873. 'The Lord Mayor of York entertained the Lord Mayor of London and the Mayors of two hundred other corporate towns with a banquet in the Guildhall at York...the scene of stately and sumptuous festivity...The Right Hon. Sir Sydney Waterlow, Lord Mayor of London, [was met] at the railway station [by] the Lord Mayor of York, with the Aldermen, Town Council, and city officers... the visitors followed the two Lord Mayors down crimson-covered steps, lined with volunteers presenting arms, to the old Guildhall'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.