
Into the Limelight
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Avid, if haphazard, collector of postcards and information about women in the music hall.
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http://intothelimelight.org 25-08-2015 09:24:08
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Our shortages this week Shoreham and Adur Community Foodbank. Client numbers are still high and any donations would be appreciated. Thanks.



Great exhibition of automata at Hove Museum. Look at this! Brighton Museums Circus250 Alison Young #automata

And another one! Brighton Museums Alison Young Rob Jones #automata

Enjoyed your article in the Call Boy Rick Blackman. What a great collection. Thanks.

Music Hall Conference starts tomorrow Hoxton Hall. What fun we'll have! BritishMusicHallSoc frankmatchamsociety @WaterRatMuseum visit theatres #MusicHall


Thinking about the Music Hall Conference last weekend Hoxton Hall. Great range of talks, a walk and lots of nice people. Thanks. BritishMusicHallSoc Alison Young The Marvellous Craggs (Charlie Holland)


New blog post at intothelimelight.org. Read about Arabella Allen - the Dickens Girl - who impersonated male and female characters from literature including Shakespeare and Dickens. BritishMusicHallSoc Britannia Panopticon @Friends_UoB_TC #MusicHall #CharlesDickens #impersonator


Delighted with this find at the Brighton Book Fair last Saturday. Harry Lundy managed the Brighton Alhambra situated on Brighton seafront where the Brighton Centre is now. BritishMusicHallSoc frankmatchamsociety


Not music hall, but a magic lantern slide of strolling players drumming up trade in La Turbie, France, 1898. BritishMusicHallSoc Alison Young @TheSTR V&A #theatre #circus


Mostly posting @intothelimelight.bsky.social - miss Twitter friends. A pic of acrobat Zaeo from Lost Victorian City exhibition The London Archives. The National Vigilance Association thought her advertising hoardings ‘indecent & horrible’. Is she winking? BritishMusicHallSoc #MusicHall


Compliments of the season to all. BritishMusicHallSoc frankmatchamsociety MagicLanternSociety #pantomime #NewYear


Christmas & new year bill from a variety theatre in Hull 1898. No top to poster. Charles Milner a local Hull man. BritishMusicHallSoc Bristol Uni Theatre Collection Hull History Centre #MusicHall #Hull


The Ford & Barrister Trio ‘found performing in the streets of London, now creating a sensation in all the Principal Music Halls.’ A barrel organ on display Musical Museum near Kew Bridge. BritishMusicHallSoc City Varieties Music Hall Wilton's Music Hall Britannia Panopticon #MusicHall



New blog post at intothelimelight.org featuring Maggie Duggan. Hope you enjoy it. BritishMusicHallSoc Britannia Panopticon City Varieties Music Hall Wilton's Music Hall #MusicHall #pantomime


Postcards from the early 1900s for #internationalwomensday. Herculine - strongwoman, Mlle Amelia - equestrienne, Marthe Carpentier - boxer, self styled champion of the world, Hengler’s Circus - wardrobe room Dolly Mitchell - roller skater. B&H Women's History Group Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn


A lovely afternoon @crazycoqs listening to Jewels of the Jazz Age played & sung by Kate Garner. What a treat! Loved it! Thanks so much. #1920s #1930s #jazzage


