Journaling the life of James & Lucy Allison. *** Now to be found where the sky is blue*** [email protected]
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Last of my twittering for this #MusicHallVarietyDay is this little sketch capturing the essence of my music hall ancestors James & Lucy Allison dancing at the Orpheum in Los Angeles in 1895 (via Library of Congress collections). #CherishArchives
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This is one of my most treasured possessions, an evening bag belonging to my g-g aunt, Daisy Dormer. I know it went to a Water Rats Ball or 2. My sister & I used to have it as part of our dressing up box when we were little & it was woefully mistreated #mhvd2024 – at Camberwell, London
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Dan led a celeb music hall cricket team for charity fundraising. They chose outlandish costumes like comic cops for example. The giraffe does seem a bit random tho! They played teams around england I assume Ogdens used his high profile image to either help charity or shift fags!
Dan Leno as cricketer on a ‘giraffe’ in front of a gasometer. @rickblackman01 do you know the story behind this Ogden’s Cigarette card #MHVD2024
ALT Dan Leno on a fancy dress giraffe. Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarette Card
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For #musichallvarietyday #mhvd2024 here is a piece I wrote in 2016 for the 'Snapshot' column in The Guardian about my grandmother Norah, the inspiration for my interest & research into #musichall Her stories enthralled me as a child & continue to do so.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Women of Loughborough Road a podcast mini series with @thedoorpodcast @NaomiClifford @MorleyRadio.
Launching today #MHVD24 #musichallvarietyday with Heroine of High Wire, Ella Zuila thedoorpodcast.com/through-t…
Nellie Navette. (1865-1936) Buried at Streatham Park cemetery. Featured in our Brixton Music Hall cavalcade of artistes. Cabinet Cards by Hana #MHVD2024 #MusicHallFashion
ALT Nellie Navette music hall star . Photos by Hana
In the early 1890s baby frocks were fashionable apparel for ladies on the stage and especially in the ‘halls. Minnie Palmer, Marie Lloyd, Vesta Victoria wore them for their comic songs but it became popular for a time as costume in various colours. #MHVD2024 #MusicHallFashion
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Want to browse over 140 pages of Music Hall material this #MusicHallVarietyDay? Head on over to the @V_and_A's Explore the Collections: collections.vam.ac.uk/search…
Kicking off #MHVD2024 with this Tom Browne sketch of Charles Morton as “father of music hall”. Used for the cover of 1904 testimonial fund matinee for his widow at the Palace Theatre, on Shaftesbury, attended by the great & good. A dazzling list of performers
Thanks so much to @UniKentArchives for their help this week. What a treasure trove for #MusicHall and #Pantomime researchers. The Max Tyler collection was a treat
Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend at the @musichallsoc conference.
This weekend, our 1st conference titled "How The Music Hall Worked; 1840-1918" will take place. The event is sold out & sure to be a success - hopefully to be repeated! We hope to have some live tweeting during the weekend. Keep an eye out...#musichall
A potted social history inside a #MusicHall programme. It’s April 1902 and you’re selling furniture on Westminster Bridge Rd. The coronation of Ed VII is in June so you flog your stock cheap & sell tkts to view the procession. At last minute the Coronation is postponed to Aug🤴🏻🤦♀️
My granny used to go to the Willesden Hippodrome in the 1930s. Located in Harlesden, the Frank Matcham building opened in Sept 1907. The hand painted souvenir cards given by Alec Hurley who starred at the opening and left for America shortly after with wife Marie Lloyd. #MHVD2023
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On #MusicHallVarietyDay here's a Programme for variety performance in 1893. Canterbury Music Hall at 143 Westminster Bridge Rd was one of London's most famous Music Halls , established in 1849 and rebuilt in 1867, the theatre survived until it was bombed in WW2. #MHVD2023
ALT 1890 Sepia programme for the Royal Canterbury Theatre of Varieties showing the outside of the building, three internal views plus two portraits of people who may or may not be the performers. The programme is decorated with floral patterns and it states prices are from 6d to £2.20.
She paid for her photo to be taken in this mesmerising pose by the darling of theatrical photography George Hana on the Strand in the 1890s but who is she? Skirt dance. A mystery woman in my collection. Does anyone know? #MHVD2023 #MusicHallVarietyDay
The Leeds Empire was on the Moss circuit of ‘Halls. Do we have any #MusicHall fans in Leeds? Does this pub still exist? #MHVD2023 #MusicHallVarietyDay
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'Professional re-union every Sunday evening' - I bet that guaranteed some sore heads on Monday morning come the band rehearsal!
Touring your #MusicHall act and need a place to stay? No problem with Will Page’s Theatrical Apartments Guide. #MHVD2023 #MusicHallVarietyDay
.Every convenience researched..need a piano - no problem; looking for an inside lav… we’ve got that too! #MHVD2023 #MusicHallVarietyDay
