DOVER hasn't seen anything like it in 75 years. Victorians and Vikings strolled around Connaught Park together, beautiful ladies in crinoline dresses and Roundheads and Roman invader paraded across the grass. The event was the Dover Pageant 1983 and thousands of people flocked to the pack on Bank Holiday Monday.
Report by Dover Express and East Kent News Friday May 6, 1983
The Pageant was opened by the Mayor of Dover, Councillor Bob Tant. He received the key from 86 year old Miss Marianne Sergeant who took part in the 1908 Pageant as a Saxon girl 75 years ago.
Grand parade lead by Romans
Grand Parade Henry VIII and court.
children from St Mary's Primary School
Grand Parade in the Victorians.
The 1983 Ray Warner Dover Film with be showing with the 2023 Dover Film
in the first week in March 2024 in the cinema in the Dover Museum
Further details on www.dover-film.com