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  1. The City of Sheffield Centenary of Incorporation, 1943
    As George Calvert Holland wrote of Sheffield in 1843, the year in which its civic status was granted, ‘there are few manufacturing towns that have advanced more rapidly in wealth and population tha...

  2. Nottingham Quincentenary Pageant
    The Nottingham Quincentenary Pageant was a key attraction of city-wide anniversary celebrations of the 1449 charter granted by King Henry VI. It took place in the Nottingham Ice Stadium, an indoor ...

  3. Co-operative Century (Sheffield)
    The Co-operative Centenary Pageant 1944, or Co-operative Century, was created to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the inception of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. It was writ...

  4. Tomorrow: A Pageant of Youth
    Tomorrow: A Pageant of Youth was one of a number of pageants held in Sheffield during the 1940s by Lawrence Du Garde Peach: others included the Sheffield Centenary Pageant (1944), the Co-operative ...

  5. Co-operative Century (Plymouth)
    The Co-Operative Centenary Pageant 1944, or ‘Co-Operative Century’, was created to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the inception of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. It was wr...

  6. Sheffield Pageant of Production
    The Pageant Master, Lawrence du Garde Peach had been pageant master for the 1943 Sheffield Centenary Pageant and 1944 Sheffield Co-operative Centenary Pageant, both held at the City Hall, and had b...

  7. Co-operative Century (Manchester)
    The opening night of the Manchester Co-Operative Pageant was one of ‘150 such “first nights” all over the country’,[1] with similar performances of the pageant taking place from Plymouth to Sheffie...

  8. Wolverhampton Centenary Pageant
    Press reviews of pageants, especially those in the local press, tend to be exuberant and lavish in their praise and can make one wonder whether the pageant really lived up to the approbation heaped...

  9. Co-operative Century: a Pageant Play of the People (Tamworth)
    The opening night of the Tamworth Co-Operative Pageant was one of ‘150 such ‘first nights’ all over the country’,[1] with similar performances of the pageant being staged from Plymouth to Sheffield...

  10. Pageant of Cannock Chase
    Many pageants were held in association with the 1951 Festival of Britain. Masterminded by the prolific Lawrence Du Garde Peach, this was planned as fairly large-scale outdoor production. As it turn...

  11. 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...