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Fred Beech Scrapbooks (1887-1910)

Collection Summary

Collection Title

Fred Beech Scrapbooks (1887-1910)

Unique Identifier

TH F 782 094273 BE1

Description

This is a collection of four scrapbooks containing emphemera pertaining to theatre and concert performances collected by the singer Fred Beech. They contain the following programmes:

Scrapbook 1:
* Chorlton Town Hall - 13/10/1897 - Manchester Amateur Operatic Society
* Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary - 23/10/1897 - Concert in aid of additional comforts for the Nurses
* Macclesfield Sunday School - 17/11/1897 - Macclesfield Philharmonic Society
* Town Hall, Stretford - 23/11/1897 - Trafford Golf Club
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 7/12/1897 - Beethoven Society
* Literary Institute, Altrincham - 20/12/1897 - Bowdon Choral Society
* 15/1/1898 - Cheadle Private Musical Society
* Town Hall, Rochdale - 21/2/1898 - Members of Castleton Cricket Club
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 22/2/1898 - Beethoven Society
* City of Manchester Art Gallery - 9/3/1898 - The Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
* Hulme Town Hall - 15/4/1898 - Manchester Amateur Operatic Society
* Mission Hall, Alderley Edge - 20/4/1898 - Grand Concert
* Henshaw's Blind Asylum - 29/4/1898 - Handtyped programme
* Chorlton Town Hall - 12/10/1898 - Manchester Amateur Operatic Society
* St George's Hall, St. Annes-on-the-Sea - 17/1/1899 - Herr Wilhelm Behre's Chamber Concerts

Scrapbook 2:
* Literary Institute, Altrincham - 22/3[1899] - Bowdon Choral Society
* St. Mary's Hall, Crumpsall - 22/6/[1899] - Grand Concert in aid of the Church Lads' Brigade
* Manchester Athenauem - 30/19/1899 - Alice Walker's Concert
* Town Hall, Manchester - 9/10/1901 - Reception and Musical Evening
* Cheetham Hill Billiard Club - 14/1/1902 - Smoking Concert
* Moor School, Kersal - 10/2/[1902] - St. Paul's Church, Kersal
* Hulme Town Hall - 8/4/1902 - St. Margaret's Choral Society
* Gentlemen's Glee Club, Manchester - 4/11/1902 - Concert
* The Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchetser - 24/11/1902 - Miss Alice Walker's Pupils
* Assembly Rooms, Station Road - 8/1/[1903] - Grand Concert
* Royal Technical Institute, Salford - 4/2/1903 - Grand Concert
* Hulme Town Hall - 28/2/1903 - St. Margaret's Choral Society
* Midland Hotel, Manchester - 5/9/1903 - Midland Hotels Orchestras
* Gentlemen's Glee Club, Manchester - 2/1/1906 - Concert
* The Tenants Hall, Alderley Park - 10/1/1906 - Mr W.A. Clayton's Concert
* Hulme Town Hall - 3/3/1906 - St. Margaret's Choral Society
* Manchester Athenaeum - 1/11/1910 - Pupils of Alice Walker
* Manchester Northern Hospital Bazaar - 28/3/1906 - Drawing-room Concert

Scrapbook 3:
* Richmond Lecture Hall - 14/12/1887 - Richmond Senior men's Class
* Rusholme Road Sunday School - 17/12/1887 - Concert in aid of the Saville Street Mission
* St. Ann's Church - 1/2/1888 - Concert
* Cheetham Town Hall - 17/2/1888 - Grand Concert
* National School, Long Street, Middleton - 9/4/1888 - Middleton Parish Church Grand Concert
* Literary Institute, Cheadle - 12/4/1888 - Concert
* Co-operative Hall, Middleton - 19/11/1888 - Middleton Choral Union
* Rusholme Road Congregational Chapel Schoolroom - 8/12/1888 - Concert in aid of the Bazaar Fund
* Richmond Lecture Hall - 12/12/1888 - Richmond Senior Men's Class
* Broughton Town Hall - 28/5/1889 - Musical Evening
* Richmond Lecture Hall - 10/12/1889 - Richmond Senior Men's Class
* The Arts Club, Manchester - 11/3/1891 - Classical Chamber Concert
* Lecture Hall of the New Church, Higher Broughton - 30/11/1891 - Grand Amateur Concert
* Richmond Lecture Hall - 9/12/1891 - Richmond Congregational Church Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society
* Infant's schoolroom, Timperley - 22/1/1892 - Timperley Pleasant Evenings
* 30/1/1892 - Cheadle Hulme Musical Society
* Congregational Hall, Higher Broughton - 3/2/1892 - Concert
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 13/2/1893 - Beethoven Society
* Literary Institution, Cheadle - 27/2/1893 - Cheadle Choral Society
* Gentlemens' Concert Hall, Manchester - 24/4/1893 - Beethoven Society
* Schoolroom, Baslow - 26/8/1895 - Willy Hess
* St. Ambrose Schools, Manchester - 1/12/1893 - Grand Concert
* Conservative Hall, Heaton Moor - 30/1/1894 - Heaton Chapel Glee and Choral Society
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 23/4/1894 - Beethoven Society
* Church Men's Institute, Higher Buxton - 10/7/1894 - Inaugural Concert

Scrapbook 4:
* New Islington Hall, Ancoats, Manchester - 28/10/1894 - Recreation in Ancoats
* Athenaeum, Manchester - 29/10/1894 - Athenaeum Musical Society
* Literary Institute, Cheadle - 16/11/1894 - Concert
* Literary Institute, Cheadle - 1/2/1895 - St. John's Church Grand Concert and Entertainment
* Buxton Church Sunday Schools - 19/2/1895 - Concert in aid of the funds of the Church Institute
* New Hall, Teneriffe Street, Broughton - 4/5/1895 - Broughton Congregational Sunday School
* St. Annes L.T.C - 18/10/1895 - Social Concert
* St. Mary's Hall, Higher Crumpsall - 24/10/1895 - Crumpsall Musical Society
* Cheadle Conservative Club - 2/11/1895 - Concert in aid of Gatley Vicarage and School Funds
* Congregational Hall, Teneriffe Street, Broughton - 28/10/1895 - Grand Concert
* 13/11/1895 - Grand Concert in aid of the National School Extension Fund
* Co-operative Hall, Radcliffe - 11/12/1895 - Miss Emily Hill's vocal and instrumental concert
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 16/12/1895 - Beethoven Society
* Gentlemen's Concert Hall, Manchester - 27/1/1896 - Beethoven Society

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1887 - 1910

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Manchester Central Library Theatre Collection

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