Entertainment Collection (page 22)

Exterior of the Royal Aquarium and Winter Garden in Westminster, London, a place for entertainment, performance and sport, opening on the 22nd January 1876. Date: 1875

Lady Grant, nee Miss Margaret Cochran, in costume for the play Polly at the Savoy Theatre, London, 1923. Lady Grant was the wife of Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant

Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London
Exterior of the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London with a combination of winter gardens, music hall and a variety of performances, side shows and restaurants

Last Night at Drury Lane 1872
Men and women in their best attire at the theatre in Drury Lane, London, to watch Christine Nilsson a Swedish operatic soprano. Date: 1872

Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London
Royal Albert Hall, Italian Renaissance style in terra-cotta bricks. Opening in 1871, by Queen Victoria, ten years after the death of her husband Prince Albert. Date: 1901

Diagram of the original design for the Great Wheel. Columbian Exposition's tallest attraction, designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr

Attraction at the Chicago's World's Fair, designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. The ferris wheel named the Chicago Wheel, had thirty-six pendulum cars

Crowd listening to live music on the bandstand in Battersea Park, London. Date: late 1890s

Shadow Show - Silhouette Cut-Outs 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper for a shadow show stand with various silhouettes surrounding, to be cut-out, to entertain children for Christmas. Date: 1881

Thaumatropes - Cut-Out 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper of a thaumatropes. A disc shape optical toy that was popular in the 19th century. Date: 1881

Sadlers Wells, Theatre, London
Exterior of Sadlers Wells, Theatre. Date: 1830

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Outside the entrance of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Date: 1828

Exterior of Olympic Theatre, located junction of Drury Lane, Wych Street, London, specialised in comedies. Date: 1831

Exterior of Little Theatre, Haymarket, London. Date: 1815

Stage at Little Theatre, Haymarket, London. Date: 1815

Charles Sherwood Stratton known by everyone as General Tom Thumb (1838 - 1883), American dwarf, who achieved great fame. Wearing court dress, appearing at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly

Edinburgh Castle floodlit during the Tattoo, when signalling maroons and rocket were fired. The twin towers of Stewart's College and dome of the Bank of Scotland on left. Date: 1960s

A young man in shorts dances and waves a flag about at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

A man in shorts and long socks dances between two fashionable women at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

A young woman in trendy sunglasses dances with her friends at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

A musician sits on a float in an ecstatic trance, really into the music, while a couple of children sit beneath him at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, W. Indies. Date: 1968

Dancing in Hawaiian skirts at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

Dancing and partying at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

An oil drum band playing festive music at the annual Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

Two revellers in matching party shirts and straw hats at the Port of Spain Carnival, Trinidad, West Indies. Date: 1968

Girls looking at a stall at Looe fair, Cornwall Date: 1930s

A customer plays an automatic bridge-playing slot machine Date: circa 1937

THE SHOW MUST GO ON/1909
Of course it's a shame he's dead, but what do the public care...? Date: 1909

MERRY WIDOW CHORUS/1905
The chorus from a Viennese production of The Merry Widow ('Die Lustige Witwe') by Lehar. Date: 1905

Watching from the gallery at the Folies Bergere in Paris. Date: 1908

In Warsaw, a man tightrope walks along a tramway cable, is arrested and taken to a psychiatric hospital Date: 1937

Actress As Juliet
Act V, Scene III Phyllis Neilson-Terry & Vernon steel as Romeo & Juliet'; lovers united in death Date: Early twentieth century

TIGHTROPE ACCIDENT
Acrobat Giacomo Gullotti dies when his tightrope wobbles violently while performing the stunt over the Piazza Nicastro. Date: 1930

A crowd at a fair in Epping Forest. This ride is now known as the death slide which seems rather over dramatic looking at this Victorian lady taking a turn. Date: 1893

A rotating zootrope : the image seen through the slits as the drum spins give the illusion of movement. Date: 1881

SWITCHBACK FATALITY
Antoine Friley is flung from a switchback car at Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris : the poor fellow dies instantaneously 1891

THE GREAT MACDERMOTT (Gilbert Hastings Farrell) (1845 - 1901), music hall singer of patriotic songs

IDA LUPINO (1918 - 1995), British actress in British and American films

DEREK McCULLOCH Uncle Mac (1897 - 1967), of BBC Children's Hour. Date: circa 1934

ALEC HURLEY (1871 - 1913), English music hall singer entertainer, tenor singer of coster songs

CLEO DE MERODE French actress and her friend Leopold II of Belgium are interrupted by his daughters, who would like her clothes when she's finished with them Date: 1904

GEORGE H CHIRGWIN/HALLS
GEORGE H CHIRGWIN Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir Date: 1854 - 1922

CLEO DE MERODE French actress and dancer in profile - she became the mistress of Leopold II of Belgium Date: early 1900s

CLEO DE MERODE French actress and dancer who became the mistress of Leopold II, King of the Belgians Date: early 1900s

BERNHARDT/L'AIGLON 1900
SARAH BERNHARDT (1845 - 1923), French actress in Rostand's L'Aiglon in 1900: Act VI, The Death of the Duke of Reichstadt

EDISON'S KINETOSCOPE Reproducing to the eye the effect of human motion by means of a swift and graded succession of pictures'. Date: 1894

The Great Wheel at Earl's Court, London, seen from below: the cabin on the left is a Smoking Saloon, a feature not found on more recent wheels... Date: 1895

GARRICK
DAVID GARRICK (1717 - 1779), English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles, a few months before his death

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