Bill poster for the Grand Theatre & Opera House, Halifax week of 26 May 1902. Blue typography of different sizes on cream background. Image: British Music Hall Society Archive
Not forgetting that today is #musichallmonday 🎭 An article published last week on @archiveshub about our fascinating archive - enjoy! #MusicHall #Archives
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It's #MusicHallMonday! 🎩 Here's a gem from our archive — the hat of Max Miller, "The Cheeky Chappie" and one of Britain's best-loved music hall comedians. Photographed by the renowned Andy Hollingworth #Archive #MusicHall
#MusicHallMonday 📢 The Call for Papers for the 3rd BMHS Conference is now LIVE! buff.ly/zmJr3VX
"Catering for People's Desires and Needs in the Music Hall" 🍺 🍷 🎟️ 🫦
We hope you can join us at The Cinema Museum in November.
A small brown suitcase with contents (jewellery, make up brushes, mirrors, purse) on display at Blackpool's Showtown Museum, with mannequin head alongside with black velvet hat with diamanté, all possessions of music hall performer, Florrie Forde. Resting on yellow plinth.
Image of Florrie Forde with big hat with very big decorative feather. From BMHS Archive.
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From the BMHS Archive - now on display at Showtown in Blackpool - this small brown case once belonged to music hall legend Florrie Forde.
Born Flora Flannagan in Melbourne, she arrived in London in 1897 & quickly became a star, famed as “The World’s Greatest Chorus Singer.”
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The legendary boots of Little Tich — whose Big-Boot Dance influenced everyone from Chaplin to Tati — are on loan from our #archive to Blackpool's Showtown Museum. Go and see them!
For #MusicHallMonday here's an article from a past edition of The Call Boy (our quarterly journal) about Dressing Rooms by Valantyne Napier
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Sheet music cover for I’m Obliging Brother Bertie (1908) performed by Vesta Tilley. Words by Worton David & Percy Edgar. Music by Henry E Pether.
For #MusicHallMonday an illustration of Vesta Tilley by Sidney Kent for her 1908 hit ‘I’m Obliging Brother Bertie’. Interesting decision to promote the song out of character as elegant, ‘ladylike’ Vesta and not as Harold the character in the song #maleimpersonator
6 photos of 3 men doing tricks on bicycles includes 2 men pedaling the when the bikes are upside down balanced on their seats, a man standing balanced on the handle bars of a bike, the bike balanced on its back wheel and a man standing balanced with his feet on the seats of 2 bikes.
For #MusicHallMonday a bit of trick cycling.
Lotto, Lilo and Otto troupe. Illustrated London News July 1904. The cycling performers toured the UK, Europe and US for 30 years.
Alfred, Walter and Ernest lived with their family on Loughborough Road as teenagers www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...
R. S. (Huddersfield).-It is more than a century ago that the feat was performed. On the 23d of September, 1751, it is recorded that a man trundled a coach wheel from a tavern in the Old Bailey to the eleventh milestone at Barnet and back in three hours and fifty-one minutes, having four hours to do it in, for a wager of fifty pounds.
Browsing The Era of 1882 this #MusicHallMonday and a reply to a correspondent caught my eye:
Lily Burnand, another MHLG member, Brixton resident and enthusiastic coachist, not joining Victoria and co on that trip.
Previous #MusicHallMonday post about Lily but here she is again www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/....
Must arrange a similar MHLG outing v. soon. Happy to get behind the wheel
#MusicHallMonday My favourite pic of Victoria Monks (c/o BNA) at the wheel along with a ‘bevy of fair music hall favourites’ from the Music Hall Ladies Guild (MHLG). You can read more about this remarkable group of women in Hallie Rubenhold’s Story of A Murder. #WhereDidYouGetThatHat
For #MusicHallMonday a lesser known #musichall act. Stewart and Delhi, a fencing, vocal and dancing duo! PC c. 1912
A bit more about Brixton based Stewart (John Squires) and Delhi (Pansy Bannerjee) in my @layersoflondon.bsky.social collection www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...
#MusicHallMonday Bessie Wentworth, Ena Bertoldi, two Lambeth #musichall women. Both successful both died too young aged 27 in early 1900s.
Both are buried in Lambeth Cemetery, two of women we’ll be talking about on Saturday 29 March Women of Lambeth Cemetery walk. womenlambethcem.eventbrite.co.uk
Here’s a little taste of Marie singing one of her favourites ‘A Little Of What You Fancy Does You Good’, recorded a few years later in 1916. youtu.be/X6P_zU5oxF8?...
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Houdini was apparently born #OTD 1874. For #MusicHallMonday here is a blog post I wrote about his appearance at the Bristol Empire with my grandparents
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For #MusicHallMonday a Dec 1930 bill poster for the London Music Hall aka the Shoreditch Empire (demolished 1935) from the #archive of @musichallsociety.bsky.social
Coloured postcard image of Empress theatre Brixton. Domed corner turret with Empress written in large letters 3 storey up
Extract from article from The Era newspaper 24 December 1898 courtesy of British Newspaper Archives. Describes Empress ‘ although dies not face the main road, it handsome and lofty turret attracts attention .. accommodates 1500 people’
Empress Brixton, opened Boxing Day 1898. Remodeled to a cinema in the 1950s, demolished in the ‘90s. The Era gave a sneak preview of the sumptuous interior, 24 Dec 1898. ‘A domed ceiling .. a heraldic device of griffins .. cupids frolicking in rose garden’!
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Black and white photo postcard of music hall comedienne Lily Burnand with a fluffy white dog
The Era 21 July 1906 from British Newspaper Archives Notice of Lily Burnand’s coaching party to Box Hill
Lily Burnand was a music hall comedienne well know for comedy songs.
She enjoyed a day out when not working and was an enthusiastic coachist. Was she driving?
July 1906 her coach trip to Box Hill from her ‘charming residence’ on Loughboro’ Road was reported in the The Era.
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Three music hall programme covers all with different graphic type face. The programme on right shows illustration of building. The centre programme showing small cameo photos of 3 men with moustaches
It’s #MusicHallMonday. Time for another selection of #MusicHall programmes 1895-1905. There’s a bit of competition for moustache of the week. @musichallsociety.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social @intothelimelight.bsky.social
1906 was a busy year for Lily Burnand. She was aa founder of Music Ladies Guild that year and one of the first women to go into the stock exchange when fundraising for the Guild.
By 1912 she’d moved to Glenshaw Mansions on Brixton Road where she lived for 16 years.
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Photograph of exterior of Wilton’s Music hall with overhead large lantern-style lamp & decorative plasterwork around the doorway.
#MusicHallMonday Beautiful Wilton’s Music Hall in Grace’s Alley, London E1 “the handsomest pleasure room in the district” (The Daily News, 1864) #MusicHall
😍 Stunning #MusicHallMonday #musichall any day item
The 1890s Alhambra Theatre programmes were stylishly simple on the outside but had everything going on inside. #MusicHallMonday #MusicHall
How many ‘handsome’ cigar/cigarette/card cases did the #MusicHall profession dole out? 125 years ago #OTD The Era recorded these two #MusicHallMonday
Three Music Hall programmes showing front panel only. Each showing an illustration of the grand buildings housing the theatres. The Ardwick Empire cover shows photo of Oswald Stoll managing director
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More #MusicHall programmes.
The Ardwick Empire, Manchester 1918, with photo of Oswald Stoll, the Australian born theatre manager who founded the Stoll Moss group; the Shepherds Bush Empire 1907, another Stoll theatre, & the Lewisham Hippodrome, 1911
Second lecture of the day. This time #AH3901 and #Degas and #Sicket #Musichall #musichallmonday #LifeLongLearning #MACombinedStudies #online #art #teaching #learning @arthistorysta.bsky.social
Some beauties in @legmania.bsky.social collection of #musichall programmes for #MusicHallMonday 👇
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The London #MusicHall Shoreditch 1900. Managing Director E S Barnes. (Shoreditch High Street, demolished)
