Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade

2004

Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade marks the start of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year.  The parade began at 2.30pm on Sunday 8 August 2004.

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The procession  started at the foot of Cockburn Street, crossed Waverley Bridge towards Princes Street, then turned left  to the  West End of Princes Street and back along Kings Stables Road towards the Grassmarket.

The procession took 90 minutes to pass.  It included Harley Davidson motor cycles, performers from the Edinburgh Tattoo, performers from Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows and commercial floats.

The photos on this site for 2004 are all of Waverley Bridge.  Only the western side of the bridge was used by the procession this year;  Barriers were erected down the middle of the road to allow access to Waverley Station, so it was not possible to repeat the photos taken in 2003 when the whole of the bridge was used.

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