Plays and Pictures
Macclesfield Times, Friday 24 February 1922 THEATRE ROYAL. Success is attending the presentation this week of “Lucky Liza,” which is a bright, well-dressed and excellently…
Amateur Operatics at Barry
Western Mail, Wednesday 03 December 1924 The Barry Amateur Operatic Society gave their first performance of “The Rebel Maid” at the Barry Theatre. The above…
Hippodrome.
The Stage, Thursday 03 June 1926 Hippodrome (G.M., J. Jackson; R.M., A Jackson).—The Osborne Productions are here with a strong company in “Fed Up.” There…
Memorial Hall: Entertainment.
Buckinghamshire Examiner, Friday 16 January 1925 On Saturday last there were entertainments both afternoon and evening in aid of the Sunshine House Home for Blind…
Snooker’s Band
Worthing Herald, Saturday 26 November 1927 Clever Pupils. The greater part of the programme, however, was sustained by the pupils, who were of varied ages,…
THE ORIGIN OF SNOOKER: THE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN STORY. By Peter Ainsworth. 10th October 2017
The game of snooker was invented by Neville Chamberlain in 1875. Everyone knows that. At least this is today’s commonly accepted theory. But prior to…
Snooker Poole – Mr Tom Wood
The Era, Saturday 28 December 1895 Costume, again, is a field wherein the proprietorate of the Grand have won many triumphs, and the dresses in…
“Snooker” and “Bud”
Linlithgowshire Gazette, Friday 29 December 1922 SCOUT SOCIAL MEETING.—Third Troop Bathgate Boy Scouts held a social rally in St David’s Chinch Hall on Friday evening,…
Herr Snooker (Colonel Keyser) and his boy Jim (Lieut. Du Maurier)
Madras Weekly Mail, Saturday 12 September 1885 On Friday we wound up a series of concerts with a ‘variety’ which was not one whit less…
Herr Snooker (Colonel Keyser)
Madras Weekly Mail, Saturday 29 August 1885 Colonel Keyser as the Squire was, аs a matter of course, all there. He is such an old…
VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT AT OOTACAMUND
Madras Weekly Mail, 01 August 1885 VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT AT OOTACAMUND. (From our own Correspondent) Ootacamund, 25th July. —This performance was quite the most entertaining, and…
Johnnie Snooker’s Band
Worthing Gazette, Wednesday 01 November 1933 UNEXPECTED APPEARANCE AT DURRINGTON CONCERT. Considerable amusement was caused at a concert at Durrington on Wednesday by the unexpected…