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Craston, Victoria, c1902 - 1989

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: c1902 - 1989

Biography

Victoria Craston was the second child of Martha Cashmore and Joe Craston and sister of Lulu Adams and Joe Craston. She was born in 1902 and made her debut as a musical act with her sister Lulu aged 10 while touring around Russia with her parents. From that time the duo became a popular musical act in the variety theatres of England and the Continent. Victoria will later join her sister and brother as on another musical act, The Three Crastonians, an Scotch musical act, which they performed in Kilts. Vicky and her brother Joe continued with the act when Lulu decided to focus on her clowning career after marrying Albert in 1927, changing the name of the act to The Crastonians.

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

Group at Cafe, c1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.197
Scope and Contents

Group drinking at a cafe table. The women on the right is Victoria Craston. Possibly taken in Berlin

Dates: c1930 - 1950

Group in Car, c1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.198
Scope and Contents

Three women looking out from the back seat of an open topped car. The car has a registration number for Denmark. The woman to the right is Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1930 - 1950

Group in Park, c1930 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.208
Scope and Contents

Group in park, two women and a man. Woman to the right is Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1930 - 1940

Group in Swimming Costumes, c1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.150
Scope and Contents

Victoria Craston (left with a man and woman) all wearing swimming costumes. Possibly, Berlin, Germany.

Dates: c1920 - 1940

Group in Swimming Costumes, c1930 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.162
Scope and Contents

Large group sitting on grass in their swimming costumes. Male front row believed to be Joe Craston Junior. Woman centre middle row is Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1930 - 1940

Group with Aeroplane, c1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.332
Scope and Contents

Group standing next to an aeroplane. Third from left Victoria Craston. 'Leaving from Dublin from I.O.M Mr & Mrs Evans & daughter & Jean of the shades. Mary & Wavey from Sheffield & me, Pietals and Plau' written on reverse. 'Me' is Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1930 - 1950

Handbills, c1924 - 1949

 Series
Reference code: 178T26
Scope and Contents

Handbills for variety shows featuring the Castonians and other acts.

Dates: c1924 - 1949

Joe and Victoria Craston, c1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.356
Scope and Contents

Joe and Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1920 - 1940

La Grande Revue Annuelle du Concert Mayol Handbill, 23 - 27 January 1924

 Item
Reference code: 178T26.3
Scope and Contents

Grenoble Casino Kursaal, Les Crastonians, Yvonne Serard, Popino, comedian, Marcellus, J. Alder, Sylette, Robert & Lysiane Roberty, dancers, Leo Caldy, Renee Favaine, B. Lecoeur, De Presles, Andree Ricard, Violette Turin, Berthe Lacaze, De Valmont, Rose The, De Marcy, Geo Garner, Dalcourt, Marcelle Darcilly, The 12 Bigarelli Girls, 1p.

Dates: 23 - 27 January 1924

Louise and Victora Craston, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.226
Scope and Contents

Louise (right) and Victoria Craston (left). 'The Birds' written on reverse.

Dates: c1920 - 1930

Louise and Victoria Craston, c1920 - 1930

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.119
Scope and Contents

Louise and Victoria Craston sitting on grass in the countryside. Legs and Daisies written in pencil on reverse.

Dates: c1920 - 1930

Lulu Adams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains business records, newspaper cuttings, programmes, notebooks and handbills, as well as a collection of black and white photographs, some original artwork and other items relating to Lulu Adam’s personal life and career

Dates: c1880 - 1959

Lulu and Vicky Card Design, c1910 - 1913

 Item
Reference code: 178V6.8
Scope and Contents

Drawn by Lulu. Watercolour and pencil on paper. Handmade card with drawings on front and reverse and handwritten text on the front. On the front, drawing of two girls in white dresses with blue ribbons, one on a skipping rope and the other hoop rolling. On the reverse two girls in white dresses with pink ribbons playing musical instruments. The text reads: My darling grandma this our rehearsals…from Lulu.

Dates: c1910 - 1913

Man with Two Women, c1920 - 1940

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.42
Scope and Contents

Three people, two women and a man, standing at the rear of house. The woman to the right is Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1920 - 1940

Miss Cashmore Sport Act Poster, c1900

 Item
Reference code: 178R57.1
Scope and Contents

Colour poster of Martha Cashmore performing in a horse pulled car with dogs. Printed by Andreasen & Lachmann, Copenhagen.

Dates: c1900

Not the Dolly Sisters, 7 July 1928

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.5
Scope and Contents

Photographic print of sisters Louise (Lulu) and Victoria Craston taken outside the Palace Theatre door in Paris July 1928. The photograph was probably taken by their brother Joe Craston. 'Not the Dolly Sisters' written on the front. Louise, Victoria and Joe performed together as The Crastonians.

Dates: 7 July 1928

Original Artwork, c1910 - 1949

 Series
Reference code: 178V6
Scope and Contents

Drawings and card, mostly pressumed to have been designed and drawn by Lulu Adams.

Dates: c1910 - 1949

Performers, c1930 - 1949

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.78
Scope and Contents

Group of three performers, two men and a woman with Joe Craston Junior top and Victoria Craston.

Dates: c1930 - 1949

Performers Group in the Park, c1930 - 1950

 Item
Reference code: 178C83.192
Scope and Contents

Mixed group of acrobat performers in swimming costumes in a park. Victoria Craston, back row, third from right.

Dates: c1930 - 1950

Photographs, c1880 - 1950

 Series
Reference code: 178C83
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs and a small amount of negatives containing a mixture of business and family archive showing performers, animals, circuses, family members such as Joe Craston, the Crastonians and Lulu, also four photo albums and two postcards of Joe Craston.

Dates: c1880 - 1950