New blog post about Kate Castleton intothelimelight.org. Early music hall performer. Married a forger - twice! @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHall #musichall

Thanks to @musichallsociety.bsky.social for a fab morning yesterday @lambetharchives.bsky.social. We saw wonderful items from the music hall archive. Thanks so much. #MusicHall

Dramatically lit against the dark background, Everett Shinn's acrobat holds not only the attention of the viewer in such a way that we can almost feel the anticipation. The acrobat's fall was part of a popular vaudeville act touring American theatres in the 1920s.

A year ago in Blackpool. Easier than I expected! Showtown museum Blackpool. @musichallsociety.bsky.social @frankmatchamsoc.bsky.social

Here are Lily Harold and Mimi St Cyr on magic lantern slides. #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Next up - Wilton’s Music Hall and Ada Reeve. #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD202 @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Music Hall tokens to be exchanged for food and drink inside the hall. @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025

Some magic lantern slides - not always sticking to the theme. Sorry!! #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025 @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Some videos through the day to celebrate #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025. Let's hope they work. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Looking forward to everyone’s contributions tomorrow #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025. See you there!

Music hall lingers on. Programme from the King’s Cross Philanthropic Society 1950. @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHall

Who can blame him? Should have kept this back for #MHVD2025 on Friday 16th May. Theme food and drink. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Visited @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social. A wonderful gallery. Be sure to leave lots of time to go round. Good cafe, too! @artukdotorg.bsky.social #art #barbarahepworth

Fab 3 days with @frankmatchamsoc.bsky.social visiting theatres - Royal Hall Harrogate, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House. Finale was old time music hall Leeds City Varieties with @realbasilbrush.bsky.social. Boom boom. Thanks for great theatre tours. @musichallsoc.bsky.social

Great afternoon yesterday listening to @kategarnermusic.bsky.social at Crazy Coqs. Wonderful piano playing and songs from 1920s & 30s. We were even treated to some swing dancing. A real treat. Also bumped into @lotski79.bsky.social. @musichallsociety.bsky.social @artdecosocuk.bsky.social

In the spirit of #songsheetsaturday a booklet using Henry Carey’s composition from 1725. Also the name of a 1931 film starring Gracie Fields in which she sang of Sally ‘pride of our alley.’ @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Postcards from 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. @womenslibrary.bsky.social @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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

Have a look at the new blog post at intothelimelight.org featuring Maggie Duggan. Hope you like it. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

From Jerome K. Jerome’s StageLand - curious manners & customs of its inhabitants. ‘The Stage peasantry do not talk much - they like to be told long & complicated stories about wrongs done years ago to people that they never heard of.’

Charity shop find - Queen Mary jug. She attended the first Royal Variety Performance in 1912. Said to have buried her face in her programme at the sight of Vesta Tilley in trousers. Did it happen? Good story anyway. @musichallsociety.bsky.social @heathertweed.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social

Ford & Barras Trio ‘found performing in the streets of London, now creating a sensation in all the Principal Music Halls.’ Barrel organ pic from the Musical Museum, Brentford. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

Visited Musical Museum for @magiclanternsoc.bsky.social meeting. Great day and saw this card. Music Hall songsheets added by me. @musichallsociety.bsky.social #secondchildhood

Yvette Guilbert from 'Le Panorama - Nos Jolies Actrices' photographs by Reutlinger. @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHall

A fragile poster with no top for a Christmas and new year bill in Hull. Charles Milner was a local Hull performer. @youngalison.bsky.social @rickblackman.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social @heathertweed.bsky.social @bluefiretheatre.bsky.social

Magic lantern slides to wish you the compliments of the season. @theatrestrust.bsky.social @magiclanternsoc.bsky.social #pantomime

A magic lantern slide of a dancer - reminded me of a pantomime performer. #pantomime #theatre #dancer

Miss May Fallowfield as Goody Two Shoes. Just look at that hat! #pantomime #theatre

Not long to go so enjoy Harry Fragson from the Drury Lane pantomime, Babes in the Wood. #pantomime #theatre #DruryLane

Merch from popular pantomimes in Victorian/Edwardian times. #pantomime #DickWhittington #Aladdin

Today, Miss Kathleen Courtney as Princess Badroulboudour in Aladdin, 1906. #pantomime #Aladdin

Sent from Newcastle in January 1906 - a card of Phyllis Dare as Cinderella. #pantomime #theatre #AdventCalendar

Miss Bessie Featherstone advertising her role in Aladdin at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. #pantomime #panto #theatre

Fourteen days in and we have a splendid Lil Hawthorne in an unidentified pantomime. She looks very princely! #pantomime #panto #theatre

Miss Minnie Gardner in Mother Hubbard at the Prince’s Theatre, Bristol. #pantomime #panto #theatre

Another day, another pantomime performer. This time, Daisy Dormer as Maid Marion in Babes in the Wood. @youngalison.bsky.social #pantomime #panto #theatre

Carrying on the advent pantomime theme, here is a cabinet card of an unidentified performer looking rather glum - with a very nipped in waist. #pantomime #panto

Nine days in and here is Carrie Moore as Robin Hood. #pantomime #panto #theatre

Miss Isabelle Dillon looking rather splendid as Dick Whittington @heathertweed.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social @theatrestrust.bsky.social @davidbcrump.bsky.social #pantomime #panto #advent

Daisy Jerome in a rather risqué pose in Mother Goose. #theatre #pantomime

Early pantomime performers as Dick Whittington. Dick Whittington and the cat dates from the 1870s and features Miss E Beaufort - card originally the ‘property’ of George Leglere.

Carte de visite of unknown pantomime performer. @roadsw9.bsky.social @legmania.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social

A belated start to a pantomime advent calendar. @youngalison.bsky.social @lotski79.bsky.social @rickblackman.bsky.social

Whoops. A day late to celebrate the birth of theatre & music hall architect extraordinare, Frank Matcham. This year tea in the Tower Circus ring with Frank Matcham Society. @theatrestrust.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social @rickblackman.bsky.social @roadsw9.bsky.social @lotski79.bsky.social

As a child, Quentin Bell was fascinated by the 'levitating lady' in Maskelyne and Cook's magic show. He sculpted this figure. #magic #Charleston #theatre.

My first post after migrating from X. A magic lantern slide of a group of strolling players drumming up business in La Turbie, France, in 1898.