London 2012 Paralympic Flame - where you can see it

 
Lamiat Sabin24 August 2012

Wednesday will see the lighting of the 2012 Paralympic flame from the tops of the nation's four highest peaks.

The four flames will be lit by disabled and able-bodied scouts using flint and kindle at Scafell Pike in England, Ben Nevis in Scotland, Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland, and Snowdon in Wales at approximately 8.30pm.

Once alight the flames will be placed in miners’ lanterns for safety and transported by bus convoys to London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.

Unlike the Olympic torch, the flames will not be taken around the country by torchbearers but will instead be the centrepiece of Paralympic Flame Festivals.

These will include sport demonstrations, live stage shows and lantern processions, and will be held in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast on separate days.

The ceremonial cauldron in Trafalgar Square will be lit at 9am on Friday August 24.

The four flames will then each be transported by bus convoy to the spiritual home of the Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, where the first Paralympic Games were founded to rehabilitate injured World War II veterans from the National Spinal Injury Centre in 1948.

There they will be united to make one flame during the Paralympic Flame Lighting Ceremony on August 28 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, before embarking on a 24-hour torchbearer relay for 92 miles to arrive at the Olympic Park in east London.

The Paralympic Games officially open on August 29, where the cauldron will be lit in the Olympic Park to mark the opening of the 11 day competition.

Sebastian Coe, chair of the 2012 organising group Locog, said: "By creating the four flames through human endeavour at the four highest peaks in the UK, we will ensure that the spirit of each home nation is represented in the Paralympic flame.

24-hour flame route and approximate timings on 28 and 29 August:

17:30: Paralympic Flame Lighting Ceremony in Stoke Mandeville Stadium

20.00: Aylesbury (Mandeville Road, Stoke Road, Friarage Road, Oxford Road, Exchange Street, Walton Road, Wendover Road)

22.23: Weston Turville (Marrow Way, Main Street, Brook End, Weston Road)

22.50: Aston Clinton (London Road)

23.10: Tring (Western Road, High Street)

23.33: Berkhamsted (High Street)

00.18: Bourne End (London Road)

00.50: Watford (North Western Avenue, St Albans Road, Beechan Grove, Lower High Street)

02.43: Bushey (London Road, High Street, High Road)

03.30: Harrow (The Common, Wood Lane, Stanmore Hill, Marsh Lane, Honeypot Lane)

05.22: Brent (Kingsbury Road)

05.42: Barnet (Kingsbury Road, The Hyde)

06.25: Brent (High Road, Pound Lane, Salusbury Road, Carlton Vale)

08.18: Maida Vale (St Johns Wood, Regents Park)

10.06: Camden (Regents Park)

10.28: Westminster (Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross, Horseferry Road)

11.44: Lambeth (Lambeth Bridge, Riverside Walk, Belvedere Road, Waterloo Bridge)

12.22: Westminster (Aldwych, Strand)

12.27: City of London (New Fetter Lane, Holborn, St Paul's, Cannon Street, Monument)

13.03: Tower Hamlets (Tower Hill, Tower Bridge)

13.19: Southwark (Tooley Street, City Hall, Jamaica Road, Lower Road)

15.22: Lewisham (Evelyn Street, Deptford High Street)

15.49: Greenwich (Deptford Church Street, Creek Road, Cutty Sark)

16.15: Tower Hamlets (East Ferry Road, Marsh Wall, Canary Wharf, West Ferry Road)

18.09: Hackney (Mare Street, Reading Lane, Richmond Road, London Fields West Side)

18.54: Waltham Forest (Lea Bridge Road, Orient Way)

20.18: Barking and Dagenham (Barking Park, Longbridge Road, Northern Relief Road, Barking Road)

21.03: Newham (Barking Road, Greengate Street, High Street, New Plaistow Road)

Paralympic Flame Festivals:

London: Trafalgar Square, Friday 24 August

Belfast: Belfast Live Site, Saturday 25 August

Edinburgh: Meadowbank Sports Centre, Sunday 26 August

Cardiff: Roald Dahl Plass, Monday 27 August

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