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Description: | This photograph shows George Thomas Rudland, sitting in a landau outside the Star Music Hall, Sunderland which he bought in 1882. By the time this photograph was taken, music hall had become the chief form of indoor entertainment for the middle and working classes, and an abundance of new music halls had sprung up around the city. Venues such as The New Tyne Concert Hall, Gaiety Theatre of Varieties, and the Star Music Hall provided a mixed programme of variety, melodrama and pantomime throughout the late nineteenth century and on into the twentieth.The picture forms part of a collection held by Beamish Museum. The photographs come from various sources and range in date from 1880 to 1932. Amongst the subjects are famous Northumbrian pipers Tom Green and Thomas Clough, as well as local composer and character Tommy Armstrong. The collection also includes some of the earliest photographs of clog and rapper dance teams and provides a rare visual archive of traditional music at this time. ; A collection of photographs of North-East composers, musicians and performers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Beamish Museum | Subjects: | buildings and views Landscapes buildings & Music Hall & entertainment & theatres | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:B0701401 | Go to resource |
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