Historical Pageant of Littleham-cum-Exmouth
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Littleham-cum-Exmouth (Exmouth) (Exmouth, Devon, England)
Year: 1984
Indoors/outdoors: Unknown
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
[Summer?] 1984.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Director [Pageant Master]: Bennison, Neil
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
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Object of any funds raised
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Linked occasion
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Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
Act I.
Scenes depicting episodes from the time of the Roman invasion up to the Black Death
Interval
Act II.
Scenes highlighting events as Exmouth developed as a seaside town, the railways came and the town withstood two world wars.
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
- None noted
Other primary published materials
- Souvenir Narrative of Historical Pageant of Littleham-cum-Exmouth. Np., 1984.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Photocopy of Programme in Devon Heritage Centre, Exeter, Reference, 2932A/PY/5/5
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This seems to have been quite a small-scale pageant about which very little information survives. It illustrates the persistence of the pageant movement into the 1980s.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Historical Pageant of Littleham-cum-Exmouth’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1459/