Old Chiddingford: A Village pageant Play
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Old Chiddingford (Chiddingford) (Chiddingford, Sussex, England)
Year: 1921
Indoors/outdoors: Unknown
Number of performances: 2
Notes
22 and 23 June 1921 at 1.30pm
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Written by [Pageant Master]: Robertson, W.
Graham
- Music Composed by: Thomas F. Dunhill
- Producer: Mrs Kendall and Lieut-Col.
R.E. Ramsden
- Maypole Dance Arranged by: Mrs. Macklin
- Costumes by: Mrs Broughton and Mrs
Carter
- Licenced by Lord Chamberlain
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Robertson, W. Graham
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
All Profits were to go to funds for erecting a village hall
Linked occasion
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Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
- Fun Fair
- Stalls
- Exhibition Boxing
- Physical Exercises
- Side-Shows
- Photography
- Dancing
Pageant outline
Episode 1: The Forest Folk
Episode 2: The Coming of the Priest
Episode 3: The Worm of Wormley Hill and Luck of Hydon Ball [A Faery Masque]
Episode 4: The passing of Richard Peyto, Glassmaker
Episode 5: The Soldiers of Cromwell
Episode 6: The Beacon
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
Guildford Symphony Orchestra conducted by Captain Claud Powell
Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
- Old Chiddingford: A Village pageant Play. Guildford, 1921.
Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
- Historical Pageantry for 100 Years, Get Surrey, 24 June 2005, accessed 23 May 2016, http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/historical-pageantry-for-100-years-4845540
Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Book of Words and Flyer in Surrey History Centre, Woking, reference CHID/23/36
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This was small-scale village pageant, typical of many of those put on in southern England in the interwar period. It was likely a success, since it was repeated in 1922 and 1923. Its Pageant Master, W. Graham Robertson, went on to direct the Guildford Pageant (1925).
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Old Chiddingford: A Village pageant Play’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1408/