Hall Collection (page 12)

Edna Mayne music hall toe and sand dancer
Edna Mayne music hall toe dancer and sand dancer. The sand dance was an eccentric dance with exaggerated movements while dressed in an approximation of Egyptian dress. Date: circa 1911

Yvette Guilbert music hall singer 1865-1944
Yvette Guilbert (Emma Laure Guilbert) French music hall singer. Known as a ?diseuse? for her monologue-like patter songs. Here at her dressing-table preparing for a performance

Bessie Bellwood music hall singer 1856-1896
Bessie Bellwood (Catherine Mahoney) music hall singer who engaged with her audience and had a reputation for putting down the toughest of hecklers. Carte de visite advertising Taunus table water

May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonator
May Lilian Levey male impersonator, dancer, pantomime principal boy. Here dressed in top hat and tails with cane. Called herself the ?premier male character comedienne?

Louie Tracy music hall male impersonator
Louie Tracy male impersonator dressed as a man about town with top hat and cane. ?Faultlessly attired, by everyone admired?. Billed as the ?Dapper, Dandy Boy?. Signed card. Date: circa 1910

Pauline Travis music hall male impersonator
Pauline Travis male impersonator billed as ?the new male impersonator? in 1915. Dressed as a man about town wearing evening suit, white waistcoat, top hat and monocle. Signed card. Date: circa 1915

Ida Barr music hall singer 1882-1967
Ida Barr (Maud Barlow) music hall singer and burlesque actress. With Wee Georgie Wood in this image. Signed card. Date: circa 1920s

Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, comic singer and dancer
Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, toe dancer and wooden shoe dancer. A comic singer with a reputation for sauciness. Here depicted in a toe dancing pose wearing ballet shoes

Lottie Collins music hall singer and dancer 1865-1910
Lottie Collins (Charlotte Louisa Collins) music hall singer and dancer. Famous for singing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay accompanied by a wild skirt dance with high kicks exposing stockings held up by

Cecilia Loftus music hall mimic 1876-1943
Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus music hall mimic. Daughter of Marie Loftus music hall singer. In costume of long black fitted dress with full skirt, long black gloves and hat. Holding a tambourine

Kitty Lord music hall vocalist. Began working life as a servant and progressed to living in a house in Regents Park. Performed worldwide between 1894 and 1915 including Egypt and Argentina

Wee Georgie Wood music hall comedian and actor 1894?-1979
Wee Georgie Wood comedian, actor and writer. Here dressed as Vesta Tilley in uniform with cigar and cane. Card entitled Vesta Tilley. Date: circa early 1900s

Sisters Warwick music hall trick cyclists
The Sisters Warwick music hall trick and acrobatic cyclists. Five women dressed in knee length full white skirts with short white jackets, large hats with decorative veiling and flat shoes

Dickinson & Johnson music hall Crystal Tank artistes
Alice Dickinson and Queenie Johnson music hall swimmers and tank performers. High divers and ornamental swimmers. ?Wonderful performances in a small tank.? Date: circa 1904

Vesta Tilley music hall male impersonator 1864-1952
Vesta Tilley (Matilda Alice Powles) male impersonator, actress and pantomime star. Dressed in costume as an Eton schoolboy with bum-freezer jacket and top hat

Winifred Ward music hall male impersonator 1880-1975
Winifred Ward male impersonator and pantomime principal boy. In costume for ?Jack Horner? pantomime, Princes Theatre, Bristol. Wearing light coloured suit with trouser turn-ups

Hetty King music hall male impersonator 1883-1972
Hetty (Hettie) King (Winifred Emms) in pantomime costume as Aladdin. Seated on table. Elaborate hat with feathers, Chinese-style satin jacket with shorts, tights and satin shoes with large bow

Mrs George Drummond and HRH The Duke of York at Pitsford Hall Date: 1926

Revellers in pierrot costumes at the Chelsea Arts Club Dazzle Ball held at the Albert Hall in March 1919. The theme was inspired by the technique of dazzle painting

Charles Coborn, The Great Comedian - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - a portrait drawn by himself Date: 20th century

Photograph of Moss Hall Tavern, Finchley, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Hall of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, Lothbury
The very grand looking hall of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, Lothbury

Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - Anrep Mosaic
Celebrities in the guise of Gods and Muses - represented in mosaics in the National Gallery, London Entrance Hall - the work of Boris Anrep (1883 - 1969), a Russian mosaicist active in Britain. 1933

WW2 - Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Firemen, including (top right) George Arthur Roberts (1891-1970) - soldier (in WW1), Fireman, and Community Leader

South Hill House, Cranmore, Somerset, seat of Thomas Chatham Strode. 18th century manor house. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1827

Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence during a fox hunt, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville urges her horse Leotard out of the briars while Facey Romford and other huntsmen watch

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric

Group photo, Moor Hall Estate, Harlow, Essex
Group photo in front of the Doric portico of Moor Hall Estate, Harlow, Essex - cricketers and others of Harlow and Sawbridgeworth

Bradford Town Centre and Town Hall, West Yorkshire. 1930s

Sir John Bolle of Thorpe Hall, Louth, Lincolnshire
Sir John Bolle (?-1606) of Thorpe Hall, Louth, Lincolnshire. circa early 17th century

Selection of suffragette banners 1908
Some of the 770 banners carried by suffragettes and suffragists as they marched from the embankment to the Royal Albert Hall

Una, Lady Troubridge
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor, 1887 1963), British sculptor and translator. She is best known as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall

George V inspecting Roman galley unearthed in London 1912
George V and Queen Mary inspecting the only Roman boat to be found in Britain during a visit to the London Museum. The galley was unearthed in London on the site of the new County Hall

Elevation and floor plan of a house in Pompeii, showing the oecus, exedra, triclinium, cubiculum, peristylium, viridarium, piscina, apotheca, tablinum, bibliotheca, atrium, ala, impluvium, officina

Medieval shoes and boots in England. Gold-fretted shoe worn by Henry III 1, decorated shoes from the reign of Edward III (2-6), buff leather square-toed boot from the reign of Charles II 7

Zazel Valses, by Charles Dubois
Promotional music sheet for Zazel Valses of 1877 by Charles Dubois. One of these waltzes was used to accompany her act which included being fired from a cannon

Children from Father Berrys Home, Liverpool
Boys and girls from Father Berrys Home, Liverpool, stand in rows in a large hall. The Home provided care for Roman Catholic children who were orphans or otherwise without a home. Date: circa 1912

King Edward VII lying in state, Westminster Hall, London. 1910

Lady Malcolms Great Servants Ball, Albert Hall, London
Lady Malcolms Great Servants Ball, Royal Albert Hall, London. Wife of Sir Ian Malcolm, she is seen here welcoming her guests to the annual ball

THREE FINE GERMAN MALES
And yet we have conquered ! Three fine Germans symbolise the Master Race at the 15th commemoration of the Munchen beer-hall putsch Date: 9 November 1938

Napier Nomad, a 12 cyl. compound diesel aircraft engine, with auxiliary turbine power recovery and supercharger. Seen in the exhibition hall at the 1953 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. Date: 1953

Sir Savile Crossleys Shoot at Somerleyton Hall, Lowestoft - an after-luncheon group, featuring: Sir Savile and Lady Crossley, Lord and Lady Vivian, Lord and Lady Hastings, Colonel and the Hon

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Travel Building. 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Hall of Science. 1933

The Wonders of the World - some of the principal architectural gems of the world in 1913, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, The Washington Monument

St Stephens crypt
Although St Stephens Chapel was destroyed by fire in 1834, the crypt below St Stephens Hall, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, which had fallen into disuse before the fire

Surgeons Hall
The Company of Surgeons moved from Surgeons Hall in Old Bailey to a site at 41 Lincolns Inn Fields in 1797. Construction of the first College building, to a design by George Dance the Younger

WW2 - Hall Barn, near Beaconsfield, which was re-purposed during wartime to the production of hospital supplies under its chatelaine the Honourable Mrs E F Lawson

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