Video: Bird On My Head

The Royal Variety Show in 1960 was the 31st of the Royal Variety Performances and was the first to be televised. It was broadcast as a TV special from the Victoria Palace Theatre in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip. The show took place under...

How many can honestly say they have had a thoroughly enjoyable life? Peter can. Theatre was in his blood. His paternal family boasted a concert singer, a professional pianist an entertainer, and a Music Hall act. His mother was a mezzo soprano and dancer, her sister a...

The Pierrot Show In 1911 Mr. George Royle had a Pierrot Show on the sands at Scarborough. Pierrot Shows were a regular feature of Edwardian entertainment. The Scarborough Council, in their wisdom, invited him to transfer his show to their newly built Floral Hall. He...

18th February 1936 – 10th September 2007 Phillip was born in Hendon, London NW4, the second son of three to Elizabeth and Hugh Charles Ferry. At the time his father, who used the name Hugh Charles, was a song pluger and writer, and by the early 1940's had a number of...

1922 – 2005 : Jennifer Haley remembers a great performer.Fol de Rols c1960On my sitting room wall I have a watercolour, taken from a production photograph. It is of the opening number of the Fol-de-Rols, circa 1960. Most of the people are known to me, but the central...