Thank you Maurice, that’s great I’ve wondered for a long time!Looks like an actor, but doesn't appear to live locally.
EDIT: Yes, British Library Newspaper Archives have several local newspaper entries for an actor of that name around the period 1894/1896. I will endeavour to put some of them online for you over the next 24 hours.
Maurice
Thank you very muchI think that is the most likely answer. For example he was "Valentine" in Gounod's "Faust" at the Grand Theatre in Jan 1894; Henry Ashton in "The Bride of Lammermoor" in Dec 1893, again at the Grand; as Valentine in "Mephistopheles" at the Grand in Feb 1894, while the Birmingham Mail of 10th Feb 1900 had the following advert
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Thank you so much , how interesting!Looks like an actor, but doesn't appear to live locally.
EDIT: Yes, British Library Newspaper Archives have several local newspaper entries for an actor of that name around the period 1894/1896. I will endeavour to put some of them online for you over the next 24 hours.
Maurice
Lyn, You may well be right but I haven't access to them, sorry.thanks jim i would think its the summer lane most of us identify with in newtown but if memory serves me correct there is also a summer lane in erdington...would think from the high number of 301 its the one in newtown but a kellys look up could confirm
lyn