I have copies several playbills found in an ancestor's scrapbook - Mr William Buck of Grantham. The concerts were in the Lincolnshire towns Grantham, Sleaford and Silk Willoughby. They contain the names of amateur actors, singers and musicians who lived in and around Lincolnshire in the mid to late 1800s.
If anyone can claim someone in their tree who liked the limelight and would sing at the drop of hat then please contact me by PM and I will forward you a copy of the playbill or programme.
Susan
Silk Willoughby Concert - 1872
Miss and Mr Weightman of Brant Broughton
The Hand Family (Mr T Hand, Mr J A Hand, Mr C W Hand, Miss Hand) of Algarkirk
Messrs Hammer and Sumner of Falkingham / Folkingham
Mr William Buck of Grantham
Mr Tinley of Silk Willoughby donated the premises for the concert
Grantham Concert - 1865
Rev James Townley
Mr William Buck, Mr H Buck, Miss J Buck
R J Boyall, and Mr Boyall Jnr - Grantham
Mr John Chambers
Mr Gamble, Mrs Gamble
Mr G Summerby
Miss Gompertz
Mr F S Mottram and a Miss Em Mottram
Mr Howison
Miss Clay
Miss C Bushby, Mr H Bushby, Mr Thomas Bushby (Printer of Grantham)
Testimonial Dinner to Mr William Goodhall - 1856
Hunting Song written by William Buck
I think William Goodhall was the hunt master or hound master at Belvoir Castle.
Theatre Grantham - party of amateurs present the play "The Slave" - 1846
Mr T Wood
Mr Boyall
Mr Buck
Mr Roberts
Mrs Robertson
Miss Tyrer
Mrs West
Madame Pierotti
Grantham Journal review of Concert at Grantham - Feb 1873
Mr William Buck
Miss S Vipond
Mr W F Mace of Nottingham
Mr H P Dickenson on pianoforte
Poem To Ada Boulton on her 16th Anniversary of her Birthday
by William Buck 1872 (Ada Boulton would be born 1856)
