School Children's Pageant of History

Pageant type

Notes

Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Mr M. Hepworth of Barnsley Libraries.

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Performances

Place: Oakwell (Barnsley Football Ground) (Barnsley) (Barnsley, Yorkshire, West Riding, England)

Year: 1935

Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors

Number of performances: 1

Notes

11 May 1935

Name of pageant master and other named staff

Pageant Master: Magnay, H.S.

Notes

The pageant programme was prepared by H.S. Magnay, Director of Education for the County Borough of Barnsley; he was likely the pageant master.

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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

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Financial information

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Object of any funds raised

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Linked occasion

1935 Jubilee of George V.

Audience information

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Associated events

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Pageant outline

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

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Barnsley Libraries, Archives and Local Studies Department holds descriptive programmes and other material relating to the pageant.

Sources used in preparation of pageant

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Summary

Staged in association with the Royal Jubilee celebrations of 1935, this pageant was performed largely by local schoolchildren.  

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘School Children's Pageant of History’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1540/