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Bedford River Pageant
The Bedford River Pageant was certainly one of the most ambitious town pageants of the interwar era. Whilst it involved fewer scenes and performers than many, its spectacular portrayal of the Battl... -
Shebbear Pageant
The Shebbear pageant was a small event. It was performed by locals and staged by Ernest Martin, social historian, adult education lecturer and author of The Secret People (1954), a study of the his... -
Walter Scott Pageant
This pageant took place at Mellerstain House, near Gordon in Berwickshire. There were many events in 1932 that marked the centenary of Walter Scott's death, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s hi... -
A Historical Pageant
Historical pageants had been staged at Craigmillar in 1906 and 1927; after an interval of forty years, this was the third staged there. Under the direction of Miss E. Willis, it was performed outdo... -
What Made England
This pageant was staged as part of Middlesbrough's Coronation Year celebrations. It was organised by the Middlesbrough Rural Deanery of the Church of England, which established a pageant committee ... -
Happy Birthday New Castle!
The city of Newcastle upon Tyne marked its nine hundredth anniversary in 1980. During the course of this year, a wide range of celebratory events, activities and attractions were organised. These w... -
Pageant of Newhaven
This was a small-scale wartime pageant, staged sometime in 1944. It was held to coincide with the centenary of the Victoria Primary School. Its focus was the history of the port and fishing village... -
The Yield of the Years—A Pageant of Thorncliffe
Thorncliffe is an area of Sheffield. The pageant appears to have been staged under the auspices of Newton, Chambers and Co., which established the Thorncliffe Ironworks in the late eighteenth centu... -
Churches of Gower Pageant
The ‘Ostreme ’73’ festival included sporting activities and a regatta, as well as the ‘Churches of Gower’ pageant. The ‘planning and action report’ also mentions plans for a military day, with scen...