Thanet Conservative Summer Fete and Pageant

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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

  1. ^ 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/