Lord Mayor walks city walls

HUNDREDS of primary school pupils joined the Lord Mayor of York yesterday for the first official procession of a civic party around the city’s medieval walls for nearly three centuries

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Mar 2011, 06:00 BST

Coun Sue Galloway was joined by more than 300 children from the city’s St Wilfrid’s School and St Barnabas School as she inspected York’s famous bar walls.

It is thought that the event was the first time since 1730 that a civic party had joined the Lord Mayor on a procession of the city’s walls and Lord Mayor’s Walk.

The Friends of York Walls, which was launched earlier this year to promote the historic landmark, organised the event to thank Coun Galloway, who is a patron of the organisation. The office of the Lord Mayor in York is the second oldest in the country after London.