Ecstatic Gaucho

What with the snow – or the ice – becoming annoying and the darkness of January grinding its way towards its lowest point on Blue Monday, it’s time for a little warmth and colour. That is, it’s really time for pantomime. So, last week the lovely Autumn booked us tickets to Aladdin at the Hackney [...]

Programme from Oscar Barrett’s Dick Whittington, December 1898 – February 1899
This Christmas hols I tried to find traces of my mysterious great-grandfather John. Not much is known about him despite searching the nationalarchives.gov. All that is known is that he died of consumption (as was the wont of 19c artists) at a young age in [...]