£55.00

Date 26/12/1901

Liverpool Parochial Hall – Grand Concert – 1909

An original programme for a Grand Concert of opera at the Parochial Hall, Marsh Lane, Liverpool, from the early 1900s.

Performers named include Miss G Walsh, Edward O’Brien, Robert Georgeson, Mary Marron, Jimmy Lewis and J Campbell, offering a programme of operatic songs and popular pieces.

Parish hall concerts were a mainstay of Edwardian entertainment, and this programme is a lovely piece of local Liverpool history for collectors of old theatre programmes.

ProductionGrand Concert – Opera
VenueParochial Hall – Marsh Lane – Liverpool
CastMiss G Walsh – Edward O'Brien, Robert Georgeson – Mary Marron, Jimmy Lewis – J Campbell

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a tiny edge ni, covers are a bit grubby

Did you know?

  • Before radio and the gramophone were common, parish concerts were for many families the main way to hear operatic arias and ballads performed live.
  • Names such as J Campbell and the Georgeson family also appear on other Liverpool concert programmes of the period, suggesting a close-knit local circuit of performers.

SKU: T01987