Bethnal Green Pageant

Pageant type

Notes

Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to David Rich of Bancroft Library.

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Performances

Place: York Hall, Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green) (Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England)

Year: 1935

Indoors/outdoors: Indoors

Number of performances: 4

Notes

19-22 February 1935

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Pageant Master: Daniels, Margot

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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

  • Daniels, Margot
  • Sabin, A.K.
  • Vale, George
  • Snaith, Stanley
  • Murray, Barbara

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

Queen's Hospital for Children; Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Heart; Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association. 

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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Other primary published materials

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References in secondary literature

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Archival holdings connected to pageant

  • Local History Library, Bancroft Library: Scrapbook containing programme with full script, photographs and newspaper cutting. Class 390.5. Accession no. L.1461

Sources used in preparation of pageant

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Summary

This seems to have been a small-scale. It was held in aid of various local charities. Staged in York Hall in February 1935, it was likely performed 4 times.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Bethnal Green Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1538/