Wednesday, March 31, 2021

William Ryalls, or the tenor "Tom Topsail" from Sheffield

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RYALLS, William (b Sheffield 22 January 1812; d Barone Villa, Park Road South, Birkenhead 5 January 1875) Mr Ryalls was, for many years, the...
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'Mademoiselle de Varny' or, I've got a little Liszt

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DEVARNY, Mademoiselle [de PAUW, Hortense] (b Valenciennes 14 September 1811; d unknown) ‘Mademoiselle Devarn[e]y’ has gone down in history ...
Monday, March 29, 2021

A Payne-ful puzzle: or a theatrical family pieced back together ...

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Over the past fifteen or so years, I have amused myself by researching the lives and careers of Victorian Vocalists. Nearly a thousand artic...
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Saturday, March 27, 2021

The Addams-Williams Family, or Llangibby Lost ...

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 . I should be proofreading the books, but ... The breakfast-time scoot through ebay turned up two pictures of a pretty girl from Wales, wit...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Baily of Frome

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 . Spotted these two same-named gentlemen on e-bay this morning. One photographed in 1875, the other in 1886 ... from a family collection or...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

13 Bruton Street, W1, or Who Slept in MY bedroom?

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  This week's schedule has been a little skew-whiffed. Wendy has taken her mother, Pat, on a wee trip to the North Island to visit the m...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Aethelred the Umpteenth ... lived on MY patch ..!

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  When I looked at this photo, taken in London's Portman Square, I had absolutely no idea what I was about to discover ... Dryden Sneyd....