Reigate Pilgrim’s Pageant 1913
Pageant type
Performances
Place: No Information (Reigate) (Reigate, Surrey, England)
Year: 1913
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
31 May 1913
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Calistri, P.F.
Names of executive committee or equivalent
Executive Committee
- Vice-Presidents: Col. Rawson, MP and
E.C.P. Hull
- Chairman: Rev. F.C. Davies
- Hon. Secretary: C.E. Salmon
- Hon. Treasuer: H.R. Schon
- H. Budgen, L.W. Chub, C. Chumley, J.B.
Crosfield, Rev. W. Earle, T.H.L. Grosvenor, E. Duckinfield Jones, Miss
Nevinson, Miss E.S. Nevinson, E. Poland, A Trower, H. Rosling, H. Sewill, W.H.
Seth Smith, S.M. Spink, Dr. H.S. Stone
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
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
Reigate and Redhill Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaign for the preservation of Colley Hill
Linked occasion
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Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
Episode I 1200-1250
Episode II. 1250-1300
Episode III. 1300-1350
Episode IV. 1350-1400
Episode V. 1400-1450
Episode VI. 1450-1500
Surrey Mirror Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
Surrey
Mirror
Dorking
and Leatherhead Advertiser
Book of words
- Reigate Pilgrim’s Pageant 1913, 31 May 1913. Redhill Junction, 1913.
Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- The British Library holds one copy of the book of words.
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
Society launched a ‘shilling fund’ with the aim of preserving Colley Hill, an open space near Reigate in Surrey. This pageant was part of the society’s fundraising effort, which was ultimately successful. Sufficient money having being found to purchase the land, it was dedicated to the National Trust by Viscount Curzon, the former Viceroy of India, in a public ceremony in May 1913.1 It seems that in addition to a dramatic performance, the pageant involved a procession by the cast along part of the route of the Pilgrim’s Way. Appropriately enough, a Chaucerian theme was in evidence.
Reigate was one of the great pageant towns, holding subsequent ventures in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1953, 1956, 1959, and 1963.
Footnotes
1. ^ Paul Readman, ‘Preserving the English Landscape’, Cultural and Social History, 5 (2008), 203.
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Reigate Pilgrim’s Pageant 1913’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1481/