A Pageant of Mercers' School
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to R.M. Harvey of Guildhall Library, London.
Performances
Place: Mercer's School Hall (Holborn) (Holborn, Middlesex, England)
Year: 1932
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: n/a
Notes
The pageant was held some time in 1932.
Name of pageant master and other named staff
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Boulter, B.C.
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
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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
- Guildhall Library, London, holds a copy of the Book of Words (Pam 1923)
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
Historical pageants were popular with schools; this is an example. Many of such pageants marked anniversaries, but this does not appear to have been the case here. The pageant seems to have told the story of the school, which had a history going back to the sixteenth century (possibly earlier). The culminating episode portrayed the retirement of the Headmaster in 1894, the year in which the School moved to new premises at Barnard's Inn, Holborn. Beset by financial problems, the school closed in 1959.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘A Pageant of Mercers' School’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1566/