“History is an Entertainment to Them”: Sundridge Road School pageant, 1951
1951 · Sundridge Road
Sundridge Road School’s celebration of the Festival of Britain.
Diane Stringer donated this cutting to Voices of Kingstanding. The printed caption says pupils of Sundridge Road Primary School, Kingstanding, were celebrating Festival of Britain year by presenting a pageant – “making history lessons entertaining as well as instructive” – in which “a very small King William I (above) is crowned in the presence of his soldiers”.
Notes
The year follows from the Festival of Britain (1951); the cutting’s own date is not visible.
About this place: Sundridge Road School
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“The photo of the pageant sent in by Diane Stringer also has a place in my album. I was Queen Elizabeth!! and in addition to Diane and myself there was Mary Bowler and Georgina Reynolds.”
“I have a photo somewhere of my self taking part in a pagent,I remember I was one of Queen Elizabeth 1st. courtiers”
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