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Floating Heads Cabaret Collection #2
Today we bring to you more photographs from the west end of London circa 1880 to 1900. As previously mentioned, this club was a hotbed for the advent of European bohemians and creatives. It is recorded that the likes of Squire Bancroft, Ivan Berlyn and John Clayton visited there alongside the highly regarded double act…
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The Victorian Punk Band Collection #2
The Highlanders was a band hailing from Thurso Scotland. You can see the 3 members in photograph #1. From left to right we have military drums played by Tosh, Iron Bruce on vocals and Guthrie on the bagpipes. They played an aggressive type of music which sounded much like the archetypal punk band, and they…
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Birds of Paradise Collection
The Birds of Paradise was a gentlemen’s club of the traditional type based in Newcastle. It became a meeting place for lonely bachelors who came together to curse the world and drown their sorrows. One night a gentleman called Alfred Beach (photograph #10), who was very drunk at the time, began talking about how easy…
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Theatre of the Dancing Witches Collection #1
Polite society during the Victorian era was wafer thin. When we begin to dig a little deeper, we find the same appetites and vices as we have today. And why wouldn’t we? Nothing really separates our own inner workings from men and women who lived 130 years ago. In 1859 a members only ‘theatre’ sprang…
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The Victorian Punk Band Collection #1
While most people believe that punk rock began with The Sex Pistols, The Ramones or even T Rex for that matter, the earliest example we can find is The Rag N’ Bone Men formed in the north east of England in the 1880s. This band was regularly met with street protests as they travelled around…
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