The Pageant of Leyton
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Leyton Town Hall (Leyton) (Leyton, Essex, England)
Year: 1931
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 3
Notes
24–26 September 1931
[Performance at 7.30pm]
Name of pageant master and other named staff
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
To raise £150 for the preservation of Leyton Parish Church
Linked occasion
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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
Opened on 24 September by His Worship the Mayor of Layton; on 25 September by The Rev. R. Sorensen MP; on 26 September by Sir Wilfred Sugden
Pageant outline
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
Music by Leyton Old Scholars’ Orchestra, conducted by Mr J. Fairfax.
Newspaper coverage of pageant
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Book of words
- None noted
Other primary published materials
- Souvenir Programme of the Pageant of Leyton. Np, 1931. [Price 6d].
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Copy of Programme in Waltham Forest Local Studies Library
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
There is very little information on this pageant, which told the story of the Parish of Leyton from earliest times through to the granting of the town charter in 1926.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘The Pageant of Leyton’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1492/