Todmorden Festival of Britain Pageant
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Centre Vale Park (Todmorden) (Todmorden, Yorkshire, West Riding, England)
Year: 1951
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
29 June 1951
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Greenough, Albert
Notes
Greenough was the Headmaster of Todmorden Grammar School
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
Festival of Britain
Audience information
- Grandstand: Yes
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
A ball; sports; dancing; a civic service; a historical egg and spoon race.
Pageant outline
AD 56 – Romans
AD 597 – Conversion
[Episodes Missing]
1815
The Industrial Revolution: ‘Look and Weep’
1854. John Fielden, MP
1901
Key historical figures mentioned
- Fielden, John (1784–1849) industrialist
and politician
Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
Manchester
Guardian
Burnley
Express
Book of words
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Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- DVD copy of Pageant film in West Yorkshire Archive Services, Calderdale, Reference WYC:1587/1
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This was just one of hundreds of historical pageants staged in association with the 1951 Festival of Britain. Two pageants were held in nearby Colne (and The Church Marches on) during the Festival year.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Todmorden Festival of Britain Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1463/