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Description: | William Burkett was a clarinettist and bandmaster for the British Xylonite factory band. His family later donated his clarinets to the Horniman Museum. The first of these photographs shows William Burkett as a boy of eleven around 1891, in band uniform and holding a clarinet. The second is of Burkett, his baton in hand, taken in Burkett's garden in the 1920s. British Xylonite was originally based in Homerton and later Holloway. At the end of the nineteenth century, British Xylonite moved to Jack's Farm, Hale End. Xylonite was the tradename for cellulose nitrate, used to make washable shirt collars and cuffs. Margaret Thatcher was later to work for British Xylonite as a research chemist. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Burkett family | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | 1891 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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