Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 4. p 995
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 4. p 995 |
|---|---|
| Page number | 995 |
| Date | 1919 |
| Edition | |
| Publisher | Unknown |
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Peace Celebrations in Reading - continued.
THE CHILDREN'S CARNIVAL.
Jazz and Jollity Despite the Downpour.
IN PROSPECT PARK.
Five thousand children were taken to Palmer Park and another five thousand to Prospect Park. The schools attending the latter park were Greyfriars, Swansea Road, St. Mary's, Coley, Central, Katesgrove, Grovelands, Wilson (all departments), Battle, Trinity, Tilehurst Norcot and Tilehurst Park Lane. Oxford Road had also been detailed for Prospect Park, but the menace of the skies proved too powerful for the authorities there, who decided that in this case discretion would be the better part of valour, and that it would be playing a trump card to do their celebrating within the four walls of the schoolroom. At an early hour in the afternoon processions of boys and girls streamed up to the Bath Road beauty spot from all directions, some of the smaller children being conveyed by tram-car. Various spaces had been allocated to the various schools for tea, but with this admirable arrangement the merciless elements interfered. The rain began to pour down as soon as the children arrived, with the result that, rather than risk a wetting, the teachers and their classes promptly took cover under the nearest shelter provided by the trees.
Tea over the entertainment proper commenced in an enclosure set apart for the purpose. Parents now began to arrive, and by ...
[photo, group, exterior] FEEDING PART OF THE FIVE THOUSAND IN PROSPECT PARK, READING. [Photo by C. E. & A. May.]
[photo, crowd, exterior] SCHOOL CHILDREN'S FANCY DRESS PARADE IN PALMER PARK. [Photo by C. E. & A. May.]