SearchGetRecordEnglish Provinces: Wolverhampton (1908-1986)
Collection Summary
Collection Title
English Provinces: Wolverhampton (1908-1986)
Description
A collection of 32 programmes from Wolverhampton, from 1908 to 1986. A significant part of the collection dates from the 1940s and 1950s.
The collection includes a number of programmes from concerts given in the Civic Hall. In addition there are a number of programmes from concerts given in the Wulfrun Hall, in the 1940s. Other venues represented in the collection are as follows: Agricultural Hall; Baths Assembly Hall; Grand Theatre; St. Martin's Church; Theatre Royal; Wulfrun Hall.
There is a programme where the venue has not been specified. There is also an advertising circular for a series of concerts organised by the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged by venue, then by date. Programmes without venues and multi-venue prospectuses are at the end of the sequence.
The collection includes a number of programmes from concerts given in the Civic Hall. In addition there are a number of programmes from concerts given in the Wulfrun Hall, in the 1940s. Other venues represented in the collection are as follows: Agricultural Hall; Baths Assembly Hall; Grand Theatre; St. Martin's Church; Theatre Royal; Wulfrun Hall.
There is a programme where the venue has not been specified. There is also an advertising circular for a series of concerts organised by the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged by venue, then by date. Programmes without venues and multi-venue prospectuses are at the end of the sequence.
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Not Specific
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Location Details
Royal College of Music: Centre for Performance History
Centre for Performance History
Prince Consort Road
London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh Open Map
Website
Email
cph@rcm.ac.uk
Telephone
020 7 589 4340
Fax
020 7 589 7740
Visiting Information
Mon-Fri by appointment
Collections Overview
The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.
For details of other collections held at the same location: See the location record
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Open
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