Musical performances
Subject
Subject Source: Unesco Thesaurus
Found in 4 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
Gomp-Ertz Grand Diorama Programme, c1882
Item
Reference code: 178K53.14
Scope and Contents
Philarmonic Hall, Southampton, War in Egypt, Mr Owen Vauguard and Miss Marie Coulson, musical act, Fred Medex, Central and Southern Africa, Mr H.M. Stanley's encounter with the natives of the Congo River, Discovery of Livingstone, Tarn Bend, Victoria Falls, Pandanus or screw palm, Horrors of the slave system, Slave market at Zanzibar, Source of the Nile, Victoria Nyanza, Abon Simbel, Second cataract of the Nile, Throne of Pharoah, Nubian water wheel, The sitting statues, Sphynx, Sir Garnet...
Dates:
c1882
Poole's World Diorama Programme, 16 November 1885
Item
Reference code: 178K53.29
Scope and Contents
Corn Exchange, Hereford, England and Russia, Egypt and the Soudan, India and Afghanistan, The Nile expedition, The Great Battle of Gubat, Entry of General Sir Garnet Wolseley with British forces in Cairo, Alexandria bombardment, General Stewart's victory at Abu Klea, The difficulties at the second catract of the Nile expedition, The Mediterranean sea, South Africa, Holland and Belgium, Suakim to Berber, Cairo to Kahrtcse, The fall of Khartoum, Lord Wolseley in the Soudan, Mr Harry Stewart,...
Dates:
16 November 1885
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