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Swingbridge 2 is going to London to see the Queen

The Surrey Care Trust will be helping to make royal history when its Swingbridge 2 joins the Queen and a thousand other boats on the Thames in the centre of London on Sunday 3rd June for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

“What an honour! We are delighted to have been chosen to take part in this historic event, especially as the organisers tell us that there were three applicants for every place,” said Surrey Care Trust Chief Executive Elaine Tisdall.  

The pageant will see the largest flotilla in modern times on the river with rowing boats, working boats and pleasure vessels of all shapes and sizes, stretching for an estimated twelve and a half miles.

Swingbridge will be based on the Basingstoke Canal in Woking in the spring, so will be taking a week out to travel up to London and then back again, via the River Wey.

The grand flotilla will be mustering the day before the pageant along the river between Hammersmith and Wandsworth. The route of the pageant is from Battersea through Westminster and the City all the way to Tower Bridge but Swingbridge’s big journey will not end there because the flotilla will be travelling on to docklands past Greenwich, almost to the Thames Barrier, to turn round.

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