Pageants 3

A map will be displayed here shortly.

  1. Gildersome Pageant
    The Gildersome Pageant is an example of an interwar village pageant. As evident from its organisational structure (seven separate committees), it was rather grander in scale and ambition than many ...

  2. Mrs. Leeds 1850-1950: A survey of a Century
    The perhaps curiously-named ‘Mrs Leeds’ was not in fact a so-called pageant of pulchritude or beauty pageant which became popular in the inter and post-war periods. Along with the youth pageant Her...

  3. Sunday School Centenary Pageant
    With the outbreak of war in 1914, the Edwardian ‘pageant fever’ went into remission. Yet while large-scale pageantry was abandoned, smaller events were occasionally put on, particularly by schools ...