THESE are some of the 12,000 local Sunday School children who crowded along one side of North Street on August 9, 1902, waiting to watch a procession of 30 historical tableaux to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII.
They had all been given pewter Coronation medals, which, some can be seen wearing. Photographer Alex Jennings recorded the whole street and the tableaux in a series of crystal-clear images.
The procession was to be followed by the laying of a memorial stone at Keighley’s future Carnegie Free Library. Some early arrivals for the ceremony have found vantage-points on the raised site.
The tableaux, organised by Sunday Schools, spanned British history from Pope Gregory with Saxon children to the Peace of Pretoria which had recently ended the Boer War.
Joint prize-winners were ‘Edward III Releasing the Burghers of Calais’, put on by St Mary’s Church School at Eastwood, and Upper Green Congregational Sunday School’s ‘The Sailing of the Mayflower’.
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