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Description: | By the late 1950s the British music hall tradition was in terminal decline and this tin celebrates stars that had their greatest successes in the pre-World War One era. Gertie Millar, appropriately for a business that was founded by Quakers, had one of her greatest triumphs in a Gaiety musical called 'The Quaker Girl' in 1912-13. Appropriately, too, for a family that was gradually assimilated into the British social and political establishment, she began as a working-class Yorkshire girl and ended marrying an earl. During the 1960s musical hall acts were 'revived' by the TV series 'The Good Old Days' - to which Huntley & Palmers linked some of their 1960s cake designs. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | building Dan Leno Gertie Millar social history trade advertising George Robey tin activity Vesta Tilley | Temporal: | start=1958-01-01; end=1958-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | R.R. Fennell | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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