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The Music Halls
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Wilton's Music Hall
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Restoration 2003
Wilton's Music Hall dates back
to the 19th Century and is
a historic and architectural
rarity, but nowadays many
people don't even know it exists...
from the BBC
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| Last Night at The Canterbury Music Hall. May 1912 |
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Lottie Collins
1866-1910
her real name was Charlotte Louise Tate
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A Mother's Lament
(traditional)
A mother was washing her baby one night;
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
The mother was poor
and the baby was thin;
'Twas naught but a skeleton covered with skin.
The mother turned 'round for a soap off the
rack.
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
"Oh, where has
my baby gone?" The angels replied:
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole.
Oh, your baby has gone down
the plug.
The poor little mite was so skinny and thin,
He should have been washed in a jug, in a jug.
Your
baby is perfectly happy;
He won't need a bath anymore.
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,
Not lost but gone
before
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The Music Halls
being a biographical account of the
Northern music hall entrepreneurs
as related by Estelle Emms
1852-1912
in the Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth.
The first of the great Music Halls, it was
erected by Charles Morton in 1852 on
the site of an old skittle-alley adjacent
to his Canterbury Tavern, and paid for
out of the profits on drink made during
free entertainment formerly offered there.
a potted history of the
famed Empire Music Halls
a very comprehensive look at
the history of the music hall
with all its goings on and all
the fabulous characters that
inhabited this world of entertainment
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The Artistes
1860-1904
"came into the world a mere child"
but became a farthing millionaire
with "an acre and two pints of
some of the best wasp-stalking
in the kingdom."
1839-1904
a really great website on this
real great music hall star
1870-1922
her songs were full of innuendo
and double meaning. ‘She’d never
had her ticket punched before’
and ‘Oh Mr Porter what shall I do’
appear to be innocent on first reading
but could take on a very saucy
interpretation when sung by Miss Lloyd.
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1894-1984
author, novelist, playwright,
essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter,
social commentator, and
man of letters
whose career spanned most
of the 20th Century
Introduction to the author,
information on the society's
activities and officers and
details of future events.
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