Here be Dragons, or Strange News out of Essex: (More) Giant Lizards at the Pageant!
Last December I wrote about Egbert the sixty-foot fire-breathing dinosaur, a sixty-foot, ‘as large as a church’, who stole the show at the Birmingham Pageant of 1938. Other pageants included dinosaurs in scenes such as St. Wilfred’s in Sussex (1965) to commemorate the discovery of the first positively identified dinosaur fossils nearby in the 1820s.
Many pageants included dragons, proving that Historical Pageants are at least as cool as Game of Thrones (probably more ...