Date:1938
Description:Episode VIII was the Grand Finale of the pageant bringing it up to date and illustrated modern industrial Birmingham. It celebrated the captains and kings of industry as well as the ordinary man and machine. It sought to weave the past and present together into one piece of splendid proportions culminating in the spectacle of every one of the many thousands of participants arrayed around a central totem describing modern Birmingham as the Industrial heart of modern England.
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In 1938 Birmingham celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city’s Borough Charter. A pageant was the ...
Discussions between the Town Clerk and Gwen Lally about the Birmingham Pageant began in January 1938. ...
The eight episodes of the Pageant were as follows: the Prologue, showing prehistoric Birmingham to 1066 ...
Gwen Lally and the pageant committee worked hard in the preceding months to whip up enthusiasm amongst ...
Although a success with the press and public, the Pageant went vastly over-budget; after the last performance ...
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Donor ref:BA&H: Misc Photographs/Pageant of Birmingham (101/2008)
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