RichardB Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Bit of Pub, bit of Music Hall, bit of mad old trout ... Source Is this Spring Street/Coulson Street, is it 1881 Alfred Milner ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Here's the reference from British Music Hall: An Illustrated History Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 The Late Mr A Milner - a curious case. Chris Hobbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 RAMBLES IN AMERICA ALFRED J. PAIRPOINT Having an evening to spare, the writer inquired of a store- keeper the best theatre in Sheffield. The merchant informed him that for a good night's entertainment he would suggest the '• Star Music Hall," owned by a man called " Squint Milner," who formerly trained Jem Mace, a fighting man of notoriety. The variety show was a cuiious place of amuse- ment of the rough-and-ready kind for the unw.ished element of the city, grimy from their work, and mostly coUarless, with the pallid hue of the workshop on them ; they sat list- lessly sipping their beer, sometimes making remarks on the male or female singers, or in conversation amongst them- selves ; very quiet and orderly. The band of three pieces was very weak, in contrast to the shrill voice of the Amazon singer on the little stage. But the most puzzling feature of the place was the coucert hall picture gallery. The works of art were of all sizes, mostly framed, and the pictures varied in talent and tint, being good, bad, and indifferent; the to- bacco smoke of the nightly revelleis had somewhat dimmed the painting subjects, and taken the varnish from the can- vases, causing the begriramed and fumed wall to serve as a dark background for the old and modern masters. The taste of the owner of these oil paintings, however, was not a vul- gar one, as most of these pictures testified, being free from offensiveness to the sensitive eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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