Thanet Conservative Summer Fete and Pageant
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Northdown (Margate) (Margate, Kent, England)
Year: 1932
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: 3
Notes
7–9 July 1932, at 7.30pm
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Hon. Producer : W. James Cave
- Hon. Business Manager: J. Sharpe
- Orchestra directed by: Mr F. Hosken
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
Object of any funds raised
Presumably in aid of the local Conservative Association
Linked occasion
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Audience information
- Grandstand: Not Known
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
- Open Air Whist
- Teas
- Dancing
Pageant outline
Key historical figures mentioned
- Augustine [St Augustine] (d. 604) missionary and archbishop of Canterbury
- William I [known as William the Conqueror] (1027/8–1087) king of England and duke of Normandy
- Charles II (1630–1685) king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Musical production
Newspaper coverage of pageant
Book of words
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Other primary published materials
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Souvenir Programme. Thanet Conservative Summer Fete and Pageant, Northdown, Margate, 7, 8, 9 July 1932. Ramsgate, 1932.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Programme in Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone, Ref. K/Margate ISL
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This is an example of a fairly small-scale pageant held under the auspices of the Conservative party. The pageant was opened by Conservative dignitaries: Lord Carson officiated on 7 July, Lady Maureen Stanley on 8 July and W.P. Spens, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, on 9 July. They were assisted by H.H. Balfour, who had been elected as the MP for the Isle of Thanet in 1929 and held an enviable majority of 21656.1
Footnotes
- ^ P.B. Lucas, ‘Balfour, Harold Harington, first Baron Balfour of Inchrye (1897–1988)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry, accessed 1 August 2016, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40135?docPos=2
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Thanet Conservative Summer Fete and Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1298/