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I’ll see you for Souper at the Alhambra, Leicester Square. 1899 #MHVD2025 #MHVD

Champagne Charlie. Cover of old sheet music showing man with top hat, long beard and red jacket with a bottle of champagne exploding in his hand

It’s Music Hall & Variety Day 🎭🎉 #MHVD #MusicHall @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Black and white photo postcard of music hall comedienne Lily Burnand with a fluffy white dog

The Era 21 July 1906 from British Newspaper Archives Notice of Lily Burnand’s coaching party to Box Hill

Lily Burnand was a music hall comedienne well know for comedy songs.

She enjoyed a day out when not working and was an enthusiastic coachist. Was she driving?

July 1906 her coach trip to Box Hill from her ‘charming residence’ on Loughboro’ Road was reported in the The Era.

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Victoria & Ramoo, 8 Mostyn Road [1914-1916] Married couple, Victoria and Ramoo, whose real name was Alfred Edwards, lived for a while at 8 Mostyn Road while they were performing with their amazing crystal pyramid. The pyramid was made from glas...

Blanche’s sister, Lilian, was another acrobat, performing with family till she formed the glass pyramid acrobatic act, Victoria and Ramoo with her husband Alf. A bit here by @legmania.bsky.social about them www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...

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As those who know my posts from ‘the other place’ I have been a keen observer of the sub-category #MusicHallTeeth Here’s a clipping from the Music Hall & Theatre Review Aug 1906- The People’s Teeth Association, ‘Dainty Teeth for Actresses’ 🦷#MusicHallMonday

Three music hall programme covers all with different graphic type face. The programme on right shows illustration of building. The centre programme showing small cameo photos of 3 men with moustaches

It’s #MusicHallMonday. Time for another selection of #MusicHall programmes 1895-1905. There’s a bit of competition for moustache of the week. @musichallsociety.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social @intothelimelight.bsky.social

Let's do this. Perhaps go to a music hall. @frankmatchamsoc.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social #theatre #MusicHall

Fantastic start yesterday to 1st European Circus History Conference yesterday with a walk to visit Astley’s Amphitheatre and Hughes Royal Circus sites. #circus #circushistory

As the 1st European Circus History Conference takes place this weekend, as a nod to that, for #SheetMusicSaturday here is the Hippodrome March by Theo. Bonheur feat. an equestrian show in the ring #MusicHall #circus

illustration: a circular riding arena with an equestrian standing on a horse. There's a viewing gallery to one side and in the background are trees and an expansive sky. 1777 Astley’s interior by William Capon - © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

It's raining in London today but the forecast is sunny for Friday and the Birth of the Circus walk! The speakers' presentations are arriving and look amazing. There are a handful of tickets left for the 1st European Circus History Conference so join us if you can circusconference.org. #c18th #c19th

The 1890s Alhambra Theatre programmes were stylishly simple on the outside but had everything going on inside. #MusicHallMonday #MusicHall

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How many ‘handsome’ cigar/cigarette/card cases did the #MusicHall profession dole out? 125 years ago #OTD The Era recorded these two #MusicHallMonday

With expert hairdresser and chiropodist! They thought of everything

It is a revelation @victurk that Brixton baths were advertised as both ladies & gents where others were gents only or ladies only. Thanks

These are the ones. Opened, with plunge pool, by Earle Bird on 22 Oct 1892. Bought by Hy Wm Rance c.1900 who sold it to the amazing William Cooper in 1910. He added others to form the Savoy Baths chain. He initiated use of betowelled gentleman who appeared on London signs & sandwich-boards. 🗃️ #19thc

Be still my beating heart💕 and the be-towelled gentlemen ooh la la

THE 1910 VALUATION SURVEY | Explore Your Genealogy Unfortunately, no records exist for some areas of England due to bomb damage during the Second World War; these areas are Basildon, Chelmsford, Liverpool, Birkenhead and most of the Wirral, Coventry, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester.

Map from the 1910 Valuation survey www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/the-1910-val...

I bet Julie didn’t didn’t do much bookkeeping after she sold the restaurant!

Oh that’s great. I’ve been researching the development of Burton crescent too for a biography of a jobbing builder. I’ll be keen to follow your progress. Chris

I see see and raise you the magnificent Alhambra with the icky red Bartholomew’s baths in Leicester Square #MusicHall ❤️ #TurkishBaths

Here are the Turkish Baths in Leicester Square, pre-1872

Postcard showing Bartholomew's Turkish Baths and the Alhambra on the opposite side of Leicester Square, with people crossing the road in the foreground.

Newspaper cutting (source unknown) with photo of the outside of Bartholomew's Turkish Baths after the fire in 1930, and another of part of the burnt out cooling-room.

A second-class ticket for Bartholomew's Turkish Baths in Leicester Square, London, numbered 896.

Not seen that before—thanks for sharing. I have used 1st image below because the lettering shows clearly, & when the baths caught fire on 10 August 1930, the life of one of the attendants, Miss Evans, was saved when she hung onto a letter till the fire brigade rescued her. 🗃️ #MusicHall #TurkishBaths

Music Halls and Victorian #TurkishBaths don't seem to go together very often. I wonder if this will do?

Well hello @victurk.bsky.social Here are the Stamboul Turkish baths just across from Brixton Empress #MusicHall and nearby Brixton theatre. Who knew we had so much in common 🎭 @musichallsociety.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social

1900s view of Leicester Sq showing building with sign says Cavour being three houses down from Alhambra theatre

Restaurant Cavour run by Monsieur Oscar Philippe, with his exotic figs & fruit tree garden. Philippe, a young French waiter arrived in London in the 1860s scraped up to buy the run down cafe. He died 1907, leaving an estate worth £99000 to Julie, his bookkeeper. Sold in 1920s becoming Cafe Anglais

Superb detail, thanks.

I see see and raise you the magnificent Alhambra with the icky red Bartholomew’s baths in Leicester Square #MusicHall ❤️ #TurkishBaths

'Gallery of the Old Bedford' (c.1895) by Walter Sickert

(Walker Art Gallery)