The famous London Harness Horse Parade takes place at the South of England Centre, Ardingly, West Sussex on Easter Monday each year. The annual event is an amalgamation of The London Cart Horse Parade (first started in 1885) and the London Van Horse Parade (started in 1904) and depicts transportation through the ages. This makes it one of the oldest and most well-loved carriage driving events in the country. Generations of carriage-driving families make the annual Easter pilgrimage to the Parade and our previous President, WA Gilbey, was a direct descendant of the founder of the London Cart Horse Parade, Sir Walter Gilbey Bart.