We arrive at Battersea Park at 1100hrs after a coffee stop at Guildford Cathedral.

The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river. Rowing boats, working boats and pleasure vessels of all shapes and sizes will be beautifully dressed with streamers and Union Jacks. The armed forces, fire, police, rescue and other services are all afloat.

The spectacle is further enhanced with music barges, boats spouting geysers and pyrotechnic barges spitting smoke and daytime fireworks.

The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant celebrates Her Majesty's sixty years of service by magnificently bringing the Thames to life; making it joyously full with boats, resounding with clanging bells, tooting horns and sounding whistles.