FILLING the pavement outside the Temperance Hall, this is a small section of the 12,000 Sunday School children who lined North Street on August 9, 1902, the Coronation Day of King Edward VII. They are wearing the pewter medals given to commemorate the occasion.
They are waiting for a procession of 30 historical tableaux organised by local Sunday Schools, depicting such textbook scenes as “The Signing of Magna Carta”, “The Sailing of the Mayflower” and “The Game of Bowls on Plymouth Hoe”. An estimated 30,000 watched it pass.
Earlier in the day, Keighley’s aldermen and councillors had walked in procession from the town hall to the parish church, where the mayor read a Loyal and Dutiful Address. This eventful day also witnessed a memorial stone-laying ceremony at the Carnegie Library then under construction.
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