Giant wooden clothed figure walks alongside soldiers.

Peace Parade

Celebrating the end of the First World War, around 4000 children from local schools took part in the Salisbury Peace Parade on Monday 28 July 1919. Dressed in costumes, based on Salisbury through the ages, the pageant passed through the streets lined with thousands of people. The parade made its way through the city centre to a large gathering in Victoria Park.

Film footage can be seen on British Pathe website https://www.britishpathe.com/video/peace-celebrations-at-salisbury/query/peace+parade+salisbury

Below, a set of 14 small photographs in the Salisbury Hospital historical collection shows the parade, likely taken from an upstairs window in a house on Castle Road, Salisbury.

 

Children in parade dressed in ‘stone-age’ costumes with fur and carrying hunted deer
‘The Dim Past’ - children dressed in ‘stone-age’ costumes
Old father time character with beard, robes, scythe and hourglass presiding over costumed figures depicting history of Salisbury
Old Father Time character presides over the pageant
Youth marching in parade dressed in shorts, shirt and tie
Youth marching group in matching costume
People dressed in ‘Sunday best’, women with long skirts and all with hats
Mass parade of people dressed in ‘Sunday best’
Choristers and medieval dressed characters carrying a model cathedral
‘Bishop Poore’s procession’
Giant wooden clothed figure walks alongside soldiers.
‘The Salisbury Giant’ from Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Group of people in medieval costume, feather in cap
A group in medieval costume
A figure on horseback - in the background someone has set up a deck chair on the window balcony
A figure on horseback
A car drives alongside a clown on a penny farthing
A car drives alongside a clown on a penny farthing
People dressed in ‘Sunday best’, women with long skirts and all with hats
Mass parade of people dressed in ‘Sunday best
Youth parade dressed in costume with sash, 2 soldiers watch from the roadside
Youth parade dressed in costume with sash
Centurion followed by roman soldiers carrying a banner
‘The coming of Rome’
Group dressed as the Countess of Salisbury and her courtiers
‘The Lady Ela’
A group of monks on open horse drawn carriage with executioner and chopping block
Unknown story showing a group of monks with executioner
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