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Legmania
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Journaling the life of 19th century Music Hall dancers James & Lucy Allison, and their life between continents. All things music hall, eccentric dance, and outlandish costumes. Adrift Australian once found in London now Folkestone.
I’ll see you for Souper at the Alhambra, Leicester Square. 1899 #MHVD2025 #MHVD
May 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
It’s Music Hall & Variety Day 🎭🎉 #MHVD #MusicHall @musichallsociety.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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
March 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The 1890s Alhambra Theatre programmes were stylishly simple on the outside but had everything going on inside. #MusicHallMonday #MusicHall
February 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
February 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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
February 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I see see and raise you the magnificent Alhambra with the icky red Bartholomew’s baths in Leicester Square #MusicHall ❤️ #TurkishBaths
February 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#MusicHallMonday
More #MusicHall programmes.
The Ardwick Empire, Manchester 1918, with photo of Oswald Stoll, the Australian born theatre manager who founded the Stoll Moss group; the Shepherds Bush Empire 1907, another Stoll theatre, & the Lewisham Hippodrome, 1911
February 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#MusicHallMonday
The London #MusicHall Shoreditch 1900. Managing Director E S Barnes. (Shoreditch High Street, demolished)
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#MusicHallMonday
1903.The Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties & The Middlesex Music Hall #MusicHall
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#MusicHallMonday
The Oxford Music Hall, London. Manager Harry Lundy, 1895 (Cnr Oxford St and Tottenham Court Road - demolished)
February 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Some Music Hall programmes for #MusicHallMonday The vibrant colours and paper quality of the late 19th century changed as WW1 neared. #MusicHall #NineteenthCentury
February 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s lovely to get back on the bus and see so many old friends here.
November 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM