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 the first section of the fourth episode in the Pageant, King Charles entered the scene ‘riding slowly ...
In the second part of episode IV, a sudden disturbance was ‘heard in the distance, and the King’s baggage ...
Episode V of the pageant concerned itself with the Restoration, the removal of Cromwell’s protectorate ...
By the year 1660 many of the people of England were heartily sick of parliamentary rule and puritanical ...
The gypsies defy them insolently as more of their caravans arrive and begin to pitch their camp. Bolstered ...
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Donor ref:BA&H: Misc Photographs/Pageant of Birmingham (101/2008)
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