Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London. It is the site of the annual ceremonies of Trooping the Colour, which commemorates the monarch's official birthday, and th
Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall in 1956
The Coldstream Guards on Parade at Horse Guards, by John Chapman, c. 1755
Horse Guards Parade with the London Eye Ferris wheel in the background at right
Panorama of Horse Guards Parade, from the northwest corner. North: Admiralty Citadel, Admiralty Extension building; east: Admiralty House (with a scaffold at its cornice level), Household Cavalry Museum, Horse Guards, Dover House; South: Cabinet Office, garden wall and trees of 10 Downing Street, Mountbatten Green and small part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; west: St James's Park (at foreground, centre) the Guards Memorial.
Beating Retreat is a military ceremony dating to 17th-century England and was first used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
Horse Guards Parade
…grid reference TQ299800). It is the site of the annual ceremonies of Trooping the Colour, which commemorates the monarch's official birthday, and the Beating Retreat. Horse Guards Parade was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehall's tiltyard, where tournaments (including jousting) were held in the time of Henry…
A band performance at India's Beat Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk in 2018.
The Massed Bands of the Household Division perform in the fireworks finale at Beating Retreat 2013.
Band of the Ceremonial Guard at Fortissimo Sunset Ceremony in 2012.
Beating Retreat and Tattoo ceremony at Gateway of India.