Dismounting Ceremony

Four O'Clock Parade

In the late afternoon at Horse Guards an officer will inspect the guards, after which the mounted sentries return their horses to the stables for the night. They are replaced by two dismounted sentries. This ceremony was born as a punishment detail in 1894 but it was retained as a tradition when the 100-year punishment period ended in the 1990s.

Address

Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall

Getting there

tube: Charing Cross or Westminster

Hours

4PM daily