Presentation Ceremony

We’ll be celebrating all that’s best in the UK bus industry at the UK Bus Awards presentation ceremony on

 Tuesday 26th November 2024
at Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, London E1 0HX

Doors open at 11am for early networking during which a cash bar will be open. Lunch will begin at 12.15pm and will be followed by the presentation ceremony, which will finish by 4.15pm. The bar will be open again until 6.30pm before the event closes at 7pm. 

In order to speed up the entry process, please bring your e-ticket with you, either with the QR code ready to scan on a smartphone, or on paper. 

The dress code is lounge suit or staff uniform. 

Lunch menu

To start

Suffolk chicken and wild mushroom ballotine, tarragon mayonnaise, pickled girolles, grilled sourdough

Or for pre-booked vegetarians and vegans: Ras el hanout roasted pumpkin, whipped tahini hummus, farro and pumpkin seed granola

Main

Hereford beef short rib, confit bone marrow potato, treacle glazed beef cheek, Roscoff onion, horseradish crumb

Or for pre-booked vegetarians and vegans: Harissa baked cauliflower, saffron sauce, toasted pine nut and coriander oil

Dessert

Set custard, masala spiced figs, rose water and cardamom ice cream

Followed by

Tea and coffee with petits fours

Dinner Wines

White: Gérard Bertrand 6th sense White Pays d’Oc 2023 Organic France
Red: Gérard Bertrand 6th sense Red Pays d’Oc 2022 Organic France

dietary requirements

Please let us know in plenty of time before the event if you have any dietary requirements. If you have informed us of, for example, a nut allergy, that meal will be prepared in a separate area of the kitchen with separate chopping boards etc to ensure that no pieces of nut are in the food. However, if the allergy is severe enough to respond to tiny airborne particles, we cannot guarantee that the air in the kitchen where the food is being prepared is completely free of all allergen particles. If this applies to you or one of your guests, please call 0330 010 3455 to discuss. 

About Troxy

Troxy is an exciting art deco building, a 90 year old former cinema stunningly restored and converted. Built at a cost of £250,000 (over £18m in today’s money), it had a capacity of 3,500 making it one of the largest cinemas in England. The feature film on opening night on 11th September 1933 was King Kong. Watching a film here was an incredible experience, as local resident, Ms Danvers, recalls; “It seemed like Hollywood had come to the Commercial Road in all its glory. Outside was a blaze of lights, inside a large foyer with a large sweeping staircase, chandeliers, ceiling to floor mirrors and thick carpets. In fact, West End luxury at a price we could afford.” Troxy closed as a cinema in 1960, re-opening three years later as The London Opera Centre with a revolving stage the same size as the one at the Royal Opera House, which is still in Troxy’s basement. The Centre closed in 1978, but the Royal Opera House continued to use the building until it re-opened as a Top Rank bingo hall in 1992, rebranding as Mecca in 1997 and closing as a bingo hall in 2005.

After a refurbishment, Troxy was re-born as a live events space in 2006 and has hosted prestigious awards ceremonies, sporting events, gigs and films ever since. Further refurbishments have taken place over the years, most recently while the building was closed in 2020/21 during the pandemic when the stage was returned to its huge original size, exposing the fly tower and proscenium arch, as well as updating the production facilities and removing the 1990s box office from the foyer.

The Wurlitzer Organ

A significant addition to Troxy started in 2011 when installation of the largest Wurlitzler organ outside the USA began. It was originally imported to Britain for the former Trocadero in Elephant and Castle, which opened in 1930 and was a sister cinema to Troxy. It took the Cinema Organ Preservation Society over four years to complete the installation of the organ’s 1,777 pipes – which range in size from one inch to 16ft long – in to the four original organ chambers built into the proscenium arch. The pipes imitate a wide range of orchestral instruments, alongside sound effects and various drums, cymbals, xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba and piano, all of which are the real thing.

How to get there

Troxy is situated on Commercial Road, almost opposite Stepney Methodist Church. The nearest station is Limehouse (DLR and c2c Rail).

Walking from the station

At Limehouse Station, take the Bekesbourne Street exit from the platforms (City end). At the foot of the steps, turn right and then turn left onto Commercial Road and walk for around 350 yards. Troxy is on your left hand side.

Buses

Routes 15, 115 and 135 serve the stops outside Troxy. Bus D3 also stops nearby at Limehouse Station.