During the afternoon of Coronation Day in August, 1902, Keighley Sunday Schools organised a procession of some 30 historical tableaux. An estimated 30,000 lined the streets to watch, including 12,000 Sunday School children who sang ‘God Save the King’.

The tableaux depicted such highlights of English history as ‘The Signing of Magna Carta’, ‘The Game of Bowls on Plymouth Hoe’, even the recent Peace at Pretoria which had ended the Boer War. Prizes went to St Mary’s Church School’s ‘Edward III Releasing the Burghers of Calais’ and Upper Green Congregational School’s ‘The Sailing of the Mayflower’.

The photograph below shows ‘Pope Gregory and Saxon Children’ – the offering of St Barnabas’ Church at Thwaites Brow – moving off along East Parade from the Great Northern Railway goods yard where the procession was marshalled. In a few minutes it will begin to drizzle!