Music-halls
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Barnes Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
Scope and Contents
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Dates:
1881 - 2017
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Cyril Critchlow Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0089
Scope and Contents
The Cyril Critchlow collection contains programmes, posters, handbills, books and magic journals, many of which relate to shows in Blackpool where Cyril resided and includes material on entertainment venues such as Blackpool’s North Pier, Central Pier, South Pier, Tower Circus and a small collection of programmes from other national venues. Additionally, it contains circus photographs and postcards mainly of the Ohmy Circus and Sanger Circus including individual circus troupes and performers...
Dates:
c1837 - 2008
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Posters, c1887 - 2010
Series
Reference code: 178R27
Scope and Contents
Circus, variety, pantomime and magic posters including Argyle theatre, Liverpool Empire, Blackpool Tower Circus, Robert Brothers, Austen Brothers, Sorcar, Vesta Tilley, Ken Dodd, Dan Leno, Florrie Forde and others.
Dates:
c1887 - 2010
Programmes , 1881 - 2016
Series
Reference code: 178K53
Scope and Contents
Pre-Film and variety and music hall programmes mainly related to the travelling shows of Joseph Poole and Harry Poole, Harry H. Hamilton, Mapleston Brothers and Adams but it also includes other showmen.
Dates:
1881 - 2016
The Oxford Programme, 1 October 1897
Item
Reference code: 178K53.36
Scope and Contents
Mr Leonard Barry, Miss Muriel Richards, The Faues, Miss Maud Distin, Miss Elsa Moxter, Mr G.W. Hunter, Miss Jenny Lynn, Mr Tom White's Arabs, Mr R.G. Knowles, Miss Ada Lundberg, Bellonini, Miss Billee Barlow, Mr Dan Leno, Mr Barnsby Williams, Three Sisters Hawthorne, Mr Herbert Crowley, La Belle Rose, Sisters Preston, Mr Charles Godfrey, Katrine, Mr Tom Leamore, Mr George Chirgwin, Miss Ada Alexandra, Mr Will Evans. Three fold programme, blue type on white background with illustration of a...
Dates:
1 October 1897
The Stage and The World’s Fair Scrapbook, c1920 - 1939
Item
Reference code: 178G25.1
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings from the Stage and The World’s Fair about performers including Charlie Chaplin, Joe Hodson and Dan Leno. 26pp, nineteen blank, seven lose pages and one lose envelope.
Dates:
c1920 - 1939
The Tivoli Programme, 24 September 1902
Item
Reference code: 178K53.40
Scope and Contents
Miss Marie Wilton, Burnetti, The Missouris, Mr Gorge Mozart, Miss Vera Vere, Florence and Lillian, Mr James Fawn, Miss Ida Rene, Forest and King, Miss Dollie Ravensberg, Clack and Hamilton, Mr George Robey, Tom and Lily English, Miss Vesta Victoria, Mr R.G. Knowles, Miss Ada Willoughby, Mr R.H. Douglass, Mdlle Eugenie Fougere, Mr George Bastow, Sisters Levey, Miss Vesta Tilley, Mr Dan Leno, Cross and Holden. Three fold programme with colour illustration of a woman in a yellow dress with red...
Dates:
24 September 1902