Ref NoDDP/FF/1/4
CollectionDavid Drummond Pantomime Collection
TitleScrapbook 4
Name of creatorEdwards, Arthur/Flanagan, James
Date1926-1930
Extent1 scrapbook
Description"This scrapbook contains news cuttings, cut outs, including of songs, programmes, prints, posters, correspondence, and photographs and postcards relating to Florrie Forde. There is also material relating to music hall, her career as a chorus singer and her touring revue Flo and Co, as well as the double act of Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen.

Featured pantomimes and performances: Babes in the Wood, Cinderella, Clowns in Clover, Jack and Jill, Mother Goose, The Non-Stops, One Dam Thing After Another, and Red Riding Hood. Variety acts are also included.

Featured theatres: Aberdeen Tivoli, Aldershot Hippodrome, Gaiety Theatre Ayr, Birmingham Hippodrome, Blackpool Palace, Tower Palace Grand Blackpool, Bolton Grand, Bradford Alhambra, Bradford Prince's Theatre, Brighton Hippodrome, Palace Theatre Carlisle, Royalty Theatre Chester, Derby Hippodrome, Devonport Alhambra Theatre, Theatre Royal Edinburgh, Glasgow Metropole, Glasgow Oxford, Glasgow Pavilion, Grimsby Palace, Holborn Empire, Huddersfield Hippodrome and Opera House, Hulme Hippodrome and Floral Hall, Ilford Hippodrome, Hippodrome and Queen's Theatre Keighley, Kilburn Empire, Kingston Empire, Leeds Hippodrome, Liverpool Hippodrome, Liverpool Pavilion, Liverpool Shakespeare, Ardwick Empire Manchester, Manchester Hippodrome, Manchester Palace, Prince's Theatre Manchester, Empire Middlesborough, Morecambe Tower, Newcastle Hippodrome, Newcastle Palace, Palace Theatre Oldham, Rotherham Hippodrome, Sheffield Hippodrome, Southend Hippodrome, Pavilion Theatre Southport, Alexandra Theatre Stoke Newington, Her Majesty's Theatre Walsall, Wigan Hippodrome, York Opera House and Empire"
NotesPart of this scrapbook is completely detached and has been packaged separately into a polyester sleeve. This has been done because it better preserves this material.
PhysicalDescriptionSlight damage to the spine and some pages are detached. The dimensions of this scrapbook are 323mmx195mm.
Related PersonBarnett, Flora May Augustus (1876-1940), otherwise known as Florrie Forde the music hall entertainer and Principal Boy 
Weintrop, Chaim Reuben (1896–1968), otherwise known as Bud Flanagan the music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian
Allen, William Ernest (Chesney) (1894–1982), otherwise known as Chesney Allen the comedian and singer
CategoryScrapbooks
Access conditionsThis material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
LevelFile
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
GB/1089/268Barnett, Flora, May Augustus (16th August 1875-19th April 1940)16th August 1875-19th April 1940
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