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Tableaux spanned British history (From Keighley News)
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Tableaux spanned British history
7:20am Thursday 23rd April 2009
A Keighley highlight for King Edward VII’s Coronation Day on August 9, 1902, was a procession of 30 historical tableaux organised by local Sunday Schools.
An estimated 30,000 watched it, including 12,000 Sunday School children in North Street — all wearing pewter Coronation medals — who sang “God Save the King”.
Here are members of St Mary’s Church School at Eastwood portraying ‘Edward III Releasing the Burghers of Calais’.
Their tableau won first prize jointly with Upper Green Congregational School’s “The Sailing of the Mayflower”.
Collectively the tableaux spanned British history, depicting key moments like ‘The Signing of Magna Carta’ and ‘The Game of Bowls on Plymouth Hoe’”, even the then-recent Peace of Pretoria which had ended the Boer War.
This public occasion was also utilised for the memorial stone-laying at Keighley’s future Carnegie Free Library. The dignitaries involved in that ceremony were able to watch the procession from the vantage-point of the raised library site!
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30,000 watched Coronation procession
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