Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947: A Pageant of Fifty Years

Pageant type

Notes

Commemorating the Parsons Mead School

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Performances

Place: Parsons Mead School (Ashtead) (Ashtead, Surrey, England)

Year: 1947

Indoors/outdoors: Indoors

Number of performances: n/a

Notes

1947

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Written and Devised by [Pageant Master]: Erskine, Kathleen

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)

  • Erskine, Kathleen

Names of composers

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Notes

All performers were pupils from the school.

Numbers of performers

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Financial information

Object of any funds raised

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Linked occasion

50 years of the School.

Audience information

  • Grandstand: No
  • Grandstand capacity: n/a
  • Total audience: n/a

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Associated events

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Pageant outline

Part I.

  • Scene I. Miss Elliston’s Drawing Room [1897]
  • Scene II. Music Lesson [Dancing Class, Sewing Class]
  • Scene III. The School Kitchen
  • Scene IV. Sports c. 1900
  • Scene V. As You Like It

Part II.

  • Scene VI. Gymnastic Display
  • Scene VII. War Comes to the School
  • Scene VIII. Papageno [arranged and adapted by J. Michael Disch]
  • Scene IX. The Hope of the Future

Key historical figures mentioned

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Musical production



Newspaper coverage of pageant

Book of words

Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947. Epsom, 1947.

Other primary published materials

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References in secondary literature

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Copy of Book of Words in Surrey History Centre, Woking, reference 8091/5/1.

Sources used in preparation of pageant

  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It.

Summary

There is little information about this pageant, which told the story of Parsons Mead School from its foundation fifty years earlier in 1897. The private girls’ school was established by Jessie Elliston, and has since closed down.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Parsons Mead Golden Jubilee 1897-1947: A Pageant of Fifty Years’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1158/