Crowning St Crispin at Newcastle

On 29 July 1822 the cordwainers, or shoemakers, of Newcastle kept the feast of their patron St Crispin by crowning him. The coronation took place in the court of the Freemen’s Hospital at the Westgate at eleven o’clock, and soon after noon the procession moved through the main streets of Newcastle and Gateshead, halting at the Chancellor’s Head in Newgate Street, where the trade sat down to dinner. There had been no such show in Newcastle since 1789.