Pageant of Local History
Other names
- Pageant of the History of Almondbury and Huddersfield
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Jane Halliwell of Kirklees Libraries.
Performances
Place: Town Hall (Huddersfield) (Huddersfield, Yorkshire, West Riding, England)
Year: 1912
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
23 November 1912
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Stell, Arthur
- Stage Managers: Mrs L.T. Donkersley and Arthur Stell
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- L.T.D.
Notes
The script of the pageant was written by 'L.T.D', described in the pageant programme as the 'authoress of Before and After'.
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
1s—3d.
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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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Kirklees Libraries hold material (including a programme) related to the pageant
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This 'Pageant of Local History' told the story of Almondbury and Huddersfield from ancient times to the nineteenth century. (The final episode, interestingly enough, was no great celebration of community consensus, but instead portrayed the 'Luddite' protests against factory mechanisation in 1812/13.)
The pageant was staged in Huddersfield Town Hall on the evening of Saturday 23 November.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Pageant of Local History’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1585/