Pageants 4

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  1. The Day Before Yesterday: A Pageant of Wivenhoe History
    The Wivenhoe Pageant was based on material in a local history pamphlet by Olive Whaley, with a script written by Robin Close. Involving around fifty performers, it was a relatively small-scale affa...

  2. Pageant of Gloucestershire
    The Gloucestershire Historical Pageant was performed ten times to large audiences in July 1908. Over 2500 local amateur performers took part. It was, in all ways, a classic Edwardian pageant, drawi...

  3. Hull Grammar School Historical Pageant
    Hull and East Yorkshire came fairly late to historical pageantry, favouring civic processions instead (at Hull in 1931 and Beverley in 1936). The Hull pageant of 1936 was held in aid of the ‘Alcock...

  4. King’s Lynn Charter Pageant 1204-1954
    King’s Lynn had attempted, and failed, to hold a pageant in 1908 due to general lack of interest. This prompted Holcombe Ingelby to produce and privately print Shade of a Pageant: King’s Lynn (1908...