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ADERS SEND PICTURES ffUNDAY T'RY 1 January 1936 This unusual windmill Chesterton Warwickshire designed by Jones ..

... this picture whch was taken in early shows Cradley Heath womer chain-makers during their strike They are leaving Empire Theatre Cradley Heath loaves of bread given tlem ympathisers C Lincoln Porter 81 oldest J P in the Kidderminster sends this picture ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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: Tm Mi:n I RV British city as star at MUCH lip-service throughout jv the years paid putting the Him

... enter tainment map That theatre endowed with a distinct personality which is sensed rather than analysed by patrons has become something very much more than a building containing plush seats ranged screen Also leaving the same theatre will be a team known ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1744 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MERCURY January May all his COLDS be little ones! CAN HELP to Baby’s colds “little”— keep growing and getting ..

... Birmingham: Jane Willson (11) Banbury John Young (7) Yardley Birmingham Stand them up! TWIRLS who have made them-selves miniature theatres often find it difficult to get their paper figures to stand upright A stand made of thin cardboard is extremely easy to make ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1560 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Sunday Mercury quiz 1 WHO said: “No but a blockhead ever wrote except for money ? WHEN were muskets invented

... The People iai RITZ Bordesley Green E (ABC I VIC 1070 Today SON ALONE Philo Vance's (a) Mon: Maytime Mayfair (U) ROBIN HOOD THEATRE Hall (ABC Today: MISSISSIPPI U TOO 'Al Mon: THE HASTY HEART (U) BY TURNER to be ration Go on it’s all right they'd say I’ve ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Variety and experiment in week’s V TTAPPY New Viewing to you all The TV programmes this week are richly varied

... Cherry Orchard” and has a vivid recollection of playing in the parks the Midlands with Basil Langton’s Touring Repertory Theatre during I I’ve heard of them of course Do you really think they would do me any good?” I can only say that personally I've ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1592 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

BIGGEST-EYER OUTPUT The bright lights the circus were Just for three-year-old Bobby Tuckwood yesterday avenue ..

... Malone 78 Elmcroft-road Yardley Birmingham Dick began his stage career in 1895 he won a clog-dancing competition at the Empire Theatre Dudley started trapeze artist but after a fall made up mind stick to comedy and dancing 44 years together A fortnight after ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1505 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... Hamilton’s ex-cursions a scenic panstereorama of passing events”) At Aston Theatre Royal the “celebrated machine gun” was being shown in “The Nihilists Retreat” Coutts' Theatre appealed to local sentiment with the pantomime “ Hands Across the Sea” while ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Manager dies

... Manager dies Mr. John Osborne Williams, for several years manager of the Regent Cinema. formerly the Theatre Royal. Leamington. died yesterday in Warnefurd Hospital. aged 42. Explosion injures 7 Siigirls workers and a man were badly injured yesterday ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... ready for issmtid.sto use. Your inspection mated. Colmar* Depot Ltd., 13. Station-atreet 'opposite Stage Door. Alexandra Theatre,. Open till e p m.. Saturdays doss 1 p.m. LANICHESTER 10.1939. ante needs S mg. room wanted. allll.--Iting YIO I a) 'PYRES ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 92 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

comic, is dead

... birthday last August, Miss Carney received a letter of congratulations from Queen Mary. Her husband was Mr. George Barclay, the theatre proprietor and racehorse owner. who died in 1944. They had three sons and one daughter The Polish Government has issued a ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1745 | Page: 1 | Tags: none