Part of a series of 12 official pageant postcards published by G G Walmsley, Liverpool and sold a one penny each.
Liverpool Pageant was held in Wavertree Park on Saturday 3 August 1907 and Monday 5 August 1907 at 2.30pm and 6.30pm; then again on Tuesday 6 August 1907 at 6pm only. The Pageant Master was D’Arcy De Ferrars.
There was a full dress rehearsal on the evening of 2 August in front of an audience of 10,000–12,000, mostly made up of children. The performance had to be curtailed because of rain.
Wavertree Park is a large recreation area opened in 1895; it is situated on land given to the city by an anonymous donor. Owing to this, Liverpudlians often called the park the 'mystery'. It later became known that the donor was Philip Holt whose family made their fortune in shipping.
A detailed description of the 1907 Liverpool Pageant may be found here.
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