| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0290 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | At Trinity Church I met my doom! |
| Name of creator | Costello, Tom, 1863-1943, performer |
| Date | 1894 |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice titled, “At Trinity Church I met my doom!”, appearing as two folio sheets (total 8 pages). Cover depicts a poorly dressed man with a walking stick and, inset, the same man sitting at a table with a woman, both looking miserable, with the caption, "Home, home sweet home". The words to the chorus are also depicted: “She told me her age was five and twenty. Cash in the bank of course she had plenty, I like a lamb believed it all, I was an M.U.G. At Trinity Church I met my doom, now we live in a top back room, up to my eyes in debt for renty, that’s what she’s done for me.” |
| Notes | Back cover has a list of "Fracis & Day's newest comic songs". |
| Outer folio is torn along half the length of the spine and first two pages have a small tear at centre of lower edge. |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Tragic |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Gilbert, Fred, 1849-1903, composer and lyricist |
| Baker, John S. 1861-1955, arranger |
| Costello, Tom, 1863-1943, performer |
| Related Organisation | Francis, Day & Hunter, London, publisher |
| T.B. Harms & Co, New York, publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| Category | Sheet music |
| Access conditions | This 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). |
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| Level | Item |