Pageant of Newcraighall History
Other names
- Newcraighall Pageant Show
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Miners' Welfare Club (Newcraighall) (Newcraighall, City Of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Year: 1990
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
7 May 1990
It is not clear whether the performance from this date, which can be seen on YouTube, was the only one.
The venue was demolished in 2009, following a fire.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Director [Pageant Master]: McElhaney, Billy
Names of executive committee or equivalent
Produced by the Craigmillar Festival Society
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Livingston, Archie
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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
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
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Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
The 'Pageant of Newcraighall Mining Community' was first staged in 1989, directed by Lloyd Quinan. In 1990 it was performed again, this time under the direction of Bill McElhaney, who later played the character Jimmy Mullin in the soap opera River City. The 1990 pageant was produced by the Craigmillar Festival Society. There is a 90-minute video of the pageant on YouTube.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Pageant of Newcraighall History’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1547/