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Offline Bill749

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Punch and Judy
« on: Thursday 10 November 05 23:15 GMT (UK) »
My grandfather's cousin, William John Thomas BEER, known professionally as Billy Beer, apprarently used to have a Punch and Judy show on the beach at Herne Bay in the summer months during the 1920s.

Does anybody have any pictures or stories about him from this time please?  (I have all the items from the Dover Express in WW1 and from the Radio Times).

Regards, Bill
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: Punch and Judy
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 November 05 23:34 GMT (UK) »


I don't know about Billy Beer - Bill!

but here's some great sites that may lead you on!!

http://www.punchandjudy.com/

http://www.spyrock.com/nadafarm/html/punchpage.html

Annie  ;) ;)
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Re: Punch and Judy
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 November 05 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the links, Annie.  Just checked them out, but nothing there relevant to what I'm looking for.

Regards, Bill
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA