Hyde Jubilee
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from ‘Survey of Historical Pageants’ undertaken by Mick Wallis; entry by Jiale Wang and Huixin Xu.
Performances
Place: Hyde Football Ground (Hyde) (Hyde, Cheshire, England)
Year: 1931
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
The pageant took place on 16 June 1931.
It is not known whether or not there was more than one performance; it seems unlikely.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- President: Alderman Thomas Middleton
Notes
Middleton was the mayor of Hyde.
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
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Middleton, Alderman Thomas
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
The pageant celebrated the jubilee of the incorporation of the borough of Hyde.Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
The jubilee was marked by a band competition, a ‘children’s day’, an ox roast, a procession and sporting events.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
- Typescript in Tameside Local Studies and Archive Centre.
Other primary published materials
- Programme in Tameside Local Studies and Archive Centre.
References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Programme, typescript and photographs in Tameside Local Studies and Archive Centre.
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
There are few details about this pageant, which formed part of the day of celebration that marked the jubilee of the incorporation of the borough of Hyde. The events included a ‘children’s day’, which involved some 4,000 children marching to the town hall to sing hymns and the national anthem; each received a medal and some chocolate. The main events took place on 16 June, but there was an ox roast the following day: ox roasts were a traditional element of Hyde’s civic celebrations. Bad weather marred the festivities, which took place outdoors at Hyde’s football ground.1 Commemorative plates were on sale (these can still be purchased online), featuring the traditional ox. Little is known about the content of the pageant, though it seems the historical story told ended in the mid-nineteenth century: the last episode was entitled ‘Chartism’.
The Hyde jubilee celebrations were part of a tradition in Tameside: other towns, too, marked the jubilee or centenary of their borough incorporation with events that often included a historical pageant (see for example Ashton Centenary 1947; Stalybridge Centenary 1957). At Hyde, the script-writer and ‘president’ was the mayor, Thomas Middleton, who in the following year published The History of Hyde and Its Neighbourhood (Hyde: The Higham Press, 1932).
Footnotes
1. ^ ‘Jubilee Celebrations, 1931’: https://hydonian.blogspot.com/2010/07/jubilee-celebrations-1931.html (accessed 31 May 2022).
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Hyde Jubilee’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1636/