Picture Gallery
Millennium Pageant

Arnold Kellett narrates the action from the Keep

The proud Scots invaders

Cavaliers and Roundheads - the Civil War and the siege of Knaresborough Castle

John Metcalf or Blind Jack of Knaresborough with his "viameter" - his own invention

Representatives of The Royal British Legion remembering the Knaresborough dead of two world wars

Friendship in town twinning with Bebra in Germany

Music played by the Knaresborough Silver Band and the King James's Senior Wind Band with,left, the Junior Choir singing the new Knaresborough Anthem

Knaresborough Silver Band lead the procession

King John ...

... and a few of the 13 paupers (1210) followed by Saint Robert

William d'Estouteville followed by Edward II and the Royal Charter

The Maidens of Queen Philippa

From the right: John of Gaunt, Richard II, Mother Shipton, Guy Fawkes whose mother and stepfather lived in Scotton, a small village just outside Knaresborough. King James's Grammar School, Mrs Whincup and the Cavaliers of the Civil War.

John Metcalf or Blind Jack of Knaresborough and the Reverend Thomas Collins, the longest-serving Vicar of Knaresborough from 1735 to 1788.

Arnold Kellett with the famous view of his beloved Knaresborough