Pageants 5

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  1. National Pageant of Wales
    The National Pageant of Wales, which took place in Cardiff in 1909, was almost certainly the first major pageant to be staged in the principality, and remains to this day undoubtedly the largest. W...

  2. Glasgow University Pageant
    The obvious inspiration for this fundraising pageant was a similar event that had been held in Edinburgh earlier the same year and which had raised money very successfully for the Children’s League...

  3. The Story of the West: A Pageant of the Britons, the Vikings, the Traders and the Clans
    ‘For two and a half crowded hours ghostly figures from Scottish pageantry, wild, staid, pompous, and romantic, live a brief while again as they slowly cross the stage, linger, and disappear back in...

  4. The Pageant of Ayrshire: The Story of Scotland's Struggle for Independence
    From the outset of planning for this event in 1932, there was no shortage of ambition to make the pageant of Ayrshire a success. Despite the unpromising venue selected, the uncertainty of the weath...

  5. Alloa Burgh Centenary Pageant
    Alloa expanded during the late eighteenth century due to its river port through which coal from mines in the area as well as other goods manufactured in the town and from other parts of lowland Sco...