Handby Celeine Collection
Scope and Contents
Posters, photographs, programmes, 1 piece of sheet music for six instruments and a small amount of business records and correspondence relating to the dancing and burlesque comedy on skates.
Dates
- Creation: c1920 - 1945
- Creation: 2020
Creator
- Handby & Celeine (Active 1932 - 1939) (Organisation)
Conditions Governing Access
Items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA reading room
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material
Biographical / Historical
This collection contains a number of items from Variety and Music Halls featuring the skating act of Handby & Celeine. The posters date from 1932 to 1938, and correspondence and contracts from 1938-1939. Handby Celeine were also known as Handby Celeine Tio, the Handby Celeine Four, the Three Skatoris and The Skatoris. They performed in stand-alone comedy, burlesque and skating acts as well as in pantomime. Known addresses in Manchester and London.
Extent
1 box Box(es) (16 posters and small amount of loose documents and photographs)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
Subject
- The Theatre Royal (c1855 - 1957) (Bilston) (Organisation)
- The Theatre Royal (Established 1805) (Bath) (Organisation)
- The Queen's Theatre (1934 - 1939) (Mansfield) (Organisation)
- The Theatre Royal (Stockport) (1869 - 1958) (Organisation)
- The New Alhambra Theatre (Devonport) (1894 - 1941) (Organisation)
- The Empire Theatre (Penge) (1913 - 1949) (Organisation)
- Shettleston Public Hall (1925 - 2014) (Organisation)
- Theatre Royal (c1890 - 1955) (Castleford) (Organisation)
- Grand Theatre (1898 - 1957) (Luton) (Organisation)
- Hippodrome (1880 - 1956) (Keighley) (Organisation)
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) (Organisation)
- Palace Theatre (1898 - 1955) (Attercliffe) (Organisation)
- Chester Royalty Theatre (1882 - 1966) (Organisation)
- The Hippodrome (1913 - 1960) (Aldershot) (Organisation)
- Heeley Green Theatre (1920 - 2004) (Organisation)
- Empire Theatre (1914 - 1955) (Tonbridge) (Organisation)
- Tivoli Theatre (1914 - 1955) (New Brighton) (Organisation)
Cultural context
Occupation
Topical
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Arantza Barrutia
- Date
- 21 February 2014
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231
lib-special@sheffield.ac.uk