Pageant Collection

1935 Kings Silver Jubilee Fleet Review
A panoramic view showing the berthing arrangements made for the Review of the Fleet at Spithead by King George V to celebrate his Silver Jubilee

The Coronation Coach
The State coach, weighing 4 tonnes, which first appeared on the streets of London at an opening of Parliament by George III has been used at every Royal coronation since that of George IV

Scout Pageant - Owlerton FC, Sheffield
Scout Association Pageant and Rally at Owlerton Football Ground, Sheffield poster. Date: 1913

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
General view of the State Procession down the Nave led by H. M. The Queen, flanked by her Maids of Honour after the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey on June 2nd 1953. 1953

Queen Elizabeth II is crowned
The moment during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II where the Archbishop of Canterbury places St Edwards crown on the Queens head. Date: 1953

Queen Victorias new barge for Virginia Water, 1877. The royal four oared barge measures 30 foot, and was built by A. and C. Burgoyne of Kingston-upon-Thames. Date: 1877

Coronation 1953, Queen Elizabeth II in golden State coach
Queen Elizabeth II drives through Trafalgar Square in central London in the golden State coach on the way to Westminster Abbey for her Coronation on 2 June 1953. Date: 1953

Hendon Aerial Pageant
A poster advertising a Royal Air Force Aerial Pageant at The London Aerodrome at Hendon. The pictures depicts British bombers attacking a desert stronghold

Stephen Tennant as Prince Charming
Stephen Tennant in fancy dress at the Pageant of Romantic Historical Lovers

Buffalo Bills Show
BUFFALO BILLs WILD WEST SHOW Bill Codys rough rider extravaganza, featuring scenes of Napoleon, and an onstage artist, Rosa Bonheur

The designer and photographic artist Cecil Beaton (standing - r) showing costume designs to Lady Domville (seated)
The designer and photographic artist Cecil Beaton (standing - r) showing costume designs to Lady Domville (seated, left) and Mrs Sacheverell Sitwell (seated)

Mrs McCorquodale (Barbara Cartland) dressed as champagne
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901-2000), married name Mrs Barbara McCorquodale, British novelist

Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee Number 1935
Front cover of The Illustrated London News conjuring up the pomp and pageantry of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of King George V with a parade of liveried riders

Mrs Charles Sweeny as Astrae the Star-Maiden
Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll (1912 - 1993), pictured as Astrae

Royal Navy parade, Coronation day, 1953
A contingent of the Royal Navy gives a superb display of marching skill as they reach Marble Arch. The three columns are seen at the moment of dividing. 1953

Coronation 1937 - procession after ceremony
First sight of King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth after they had left Westminster Abbey for the processional drive back to Buckingham Palace

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II by Bryan de Grineau
Spectacular illustration by ILN special artist, Bryan de Grineau

Fashions for the Festival of Britain, showing a woman modelling a series of scarves by Jacqmar, printed with designs relating to London and the Festival

Kandy - Sri Lanka - Buddhist Procession
Kandy is very popular due to the annual Buddhist pageant known as the Esala Perahera

Royal procession of James I on the Thames
Royal procession down the River Thames, with regal pomp, surrounded with many boats of guards and musicians

The Key of England celebrates its pageant, 1908
The Key of England (Dover Castle) celebrates its pageant: Dovers history in living pictures, 1908

Poster, Indias First Aerial Pageant
Poster, Captain C. D

Dame Margaret Lloyd George (1864 - 1941), wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, dressed as Lady Glyndwr, with their daughter Miss Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966) at the Harlech Pageant

Winner of Miss World, Miss India - Reita Faria
Winner of Miss World, Miss India - 23 year-old Reita Faria, a medical student

Greenwich Night Pageant June 1933 - Royal Navy Sailors Dance
Greenwich Night Pageant June 1933 - Royal Navy Sailors Dancing Date: 1933

Frog RAF Pageant : Frog Interceptor ; Frog Hawker Hart - Tri-Ang. Date: 1935

Men, women and children wearing costume of the 1815 Napoleonic period at the Lichfield Pageant, Staffordshire, England: Coffin Barrow and Townswomen. Date: early 1800s (re-enactment)

Men, women and children wearing costume of the 1815 Napoleonic period at the Lichfield Pageant, Staffordshire, England. Date: early 1800s (re-enactment)

Margaret Whigham & Mrs Colclough, Best of Everything Ball
Miss Margaret Whigham and Mrs Colclough displaying British gloves, stockings and scarves at the Best of Everything Dinner

Miles M.17 Monarch G-AIDE (msn 793), at the Coventry - Air Pageant / National Air Races, on 21 July 1956 Date: 1956

Fokker S.14 Mach-Trainer K-1
Koninklijke Luchtmacht - Fokker S.14 Mach-Trainer K-1 (msn 6289). at Baginton for the Coventry Air Pageant / National Air Races, on 28 May 1955

Pageant or play at Bournville Village in the 1920s

Village Fete Play Pageant, Bournville village

Banbury Cross Pageant, Banbury, early 1900s

Banbury Cross Pageant early 1900s

Advert, Thurston & Co Ltd, Billiard Table Makers, London
Advert, Thurston & Co Ltd, Billiard Table Makers, Leicester Square, London Date: 1907

Advert, Steinway Vertegrand Piano, London
Advert, Steinway Vertegrand (upright) Piano, Louis XVI style, Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall, London Date: 1907

Advert, Steinway Grand Pianos, London
Advert, Steinway Grand Pianos, Louis XIV style, Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall, London Date: 1907

Advert for Chappell Pianos, London
Advert for Chappell Pianos, New Bond Street, London Date: 1907

Pageant at Banbury Cross, Oxfordshire - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

The Girls Friendly Society Pageant at the Royal Albert Hall
Australia - The Girls Friendly Society Pageant at the Royal Albert Hall on July 4th, 1925. Date: 1925

The Aldershot Military Tattoo
The Field of the Cloth of Gold with Henry VIII of England and King Francis (Francois) I of France, recreated at the Aldershot Military Tattoo, an annual event dating back to 1894

The Royal Barge Leaving The Custom House Quay
An oil painting which shows the gold and red themed royal barge leaving the custom house quay during the Thames pageant which took place on the 4th August, 1919. Date: 1919

Cavalry Display by the Third Hussars
A Cavalry Display by the Third (King's Own) Hussars at the Royal Military Tournment at the Agricultural Hall

Hendon Aerodrome Pageant
An air pageant held at Hendon Aerodrome, including a plane decorated as a pterodactyl, and a squadron of Hawker-Harts bombers flying in Wing-V formation. Date: 1932

Stills from The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross Date: circa 1900

King George VI inspecting the Yeomen of the Guard
King George VI (1895-1952) inspecting the Yeomen of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The Yeomen are under the Captaincy of Arthur Chichester, Colonel The Lord Templemore (1880-1953). Date: 1939

Photograph of crowds, at the Birkbeck Bank Scare: the scene outside the Bank's Premises, Southampton Buildings. From a section, The World's Pageant'

Photographs of Gainsborough shooting party, outdoor sporting portraits and group shot. Captioned, Those Idle Rich: The Earl of Gainsborough's Birthday shooting party, at Exton Park, Rutland'

Photograph of rail strike in France, with soldier and striking worker with rifles and bayonets, on railway line by signals, at the exit from a tunnel

Poster Pageant - Advert for Pears Soap, Bubbles 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

Poster Pageant - Advert for Edwards Soup 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

Poster Pageant - Advert for Michelin Tyres 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

Poster Pageant - Advert for Egall, Pure Dried Eggs 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

Poster Pageant - Advert, Dean's Untearable Rag Books 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London

Pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry Date: 16th century

Poster, Liverpool Civic Week, Air Pageant at Hooton Park Aerodrome, 24 September. Date: circa 1933

Double page spread from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, reported on a Tudor pageant performed in the gardens of Quinettes, a medieval farmhouse in Churt, Surrey. Date: 1943

Glimpses of guests at the Beaux Arts and Silver
Glimpses of guests at the Beaux Arts (with costumes of the First Napoleonic Era) and Silver Balls, annual society functions held in New York, 1931 with Elizabeth Wallace Taylor Hardin

Brigadier-General Arthur Corrie Lewin, pictured at the first air pageant organised by the Irish Aero Club at Baldonnel Free State Army aerodrome, where he flew a Gipsy Moth. Date: 1931

Various scenes showing how people were marking the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers departing Plymouth for the new world in 1620. Date: 1920

Trooping of the Colour, 1919
Page from The Sphere reporting on the Trooping of the Colour ceremony, which took place on 3 June 1919, on King George Vs birthday. 1919

King and knights in armour on horseback at a medieval tournament. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after A

Tournament held to celebrate the entrance of Queen Isabella of Bavaria into Paris, 1389

Mystery play, Coventry, Warwickshire
Mystery play performed on a raised stage in the street, Coventry, Warwickshire, with the old cathedral in the background. Date: 1842

Front cover, Festival of Empire, The Pageant of London, May to October 1911 at the Crystal Palace, SE London. 1911

King William IVs coach at Gretna Green, Scotland
King William IVs coach outside the Famous Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna Green, Scotland, during the Carlisle Historical Pageant, August 1928, with people in historical costume

Lady Mary Ashley Cooper in Jacobean costume Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936)
Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936), later Lady Alington, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury

Aboard the Morning Star yacht at Cowes, Isle of Wight - the Pageant of the Century. 1911

Costume for the Eclipse Ball, Begum Aga Khan
A costume for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Night view of the Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Night time scene of the auditorium and Convention Hall, later known as the Boardwalk Hall, at Atlantic City, New Jersey circa 1936

Boardwalk or Convention Hall, New Jersey
The auditorium and Convention Hall, later known as the Boardwalk Hall, at Atlantic City, New Jersey circa 1947

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Klemm Kl. 107C
Klemm Kl.107C D-ELOQ, at the July 1959 Coventry - Air Pageant / National Air Races. Klemm Kl.107C: First registered in Germany as D-ELOQ

de Havilland DH. 87B Hornet Moth G-ADKK
de Havilland DH.87B Hornet Moth G-ADKK (msn 8033) at the July 1959 Coventry - Air Pageant / National Air Races. Date: 1959

Percival E. 2H Mew Gull G-AEXF
Percival E.2H Mew Gull G-AEXF (msn E.22), race number 97, in the 1960s, with the original raised canopy, at the July 1959 Coventry - Air Pageant / National Air Races. Date: 1959

LORD MAYORS SHOW
The float symbolising the Entente Cordiale with France, in the Lord Mayors procession of 1905 Date: 1905

Queen Virginia II - Manila Carnival, The Philippines

Selfridges decorated for the 1937 Coronation
Selfridges department store in Oxford Street, London decorated for the Coronation of King George VI in May 1937

Lady Godiva, Coventry
Miss Frances P. Burchell in the role of Lady Godiva at the Coventry Hospital Pageant - 27th June 1936 1936

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip pays homage
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 in Westminster Abbey showing the Duke of Edinburgh paying homage. Date: 1953

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