Magnificent Music Machines. Paul Corrin on Wurlitzer Cinema Organ at St Keynes
Paul Corrin on Cinema Organ at St Keynes. Magnificent Music Machines. Mighty WurliTzer Theatre Organ. Liskeard
Cornwall.
Magnificent Music Machines - Jacot & Son 2 Cylinder
Enjoy all the music from two pin cylinders of a 19th Century Jacot & Son Swiss music box.
Magnificent Man Engine Event At Elsecar Heritage Centre
The Man Engine, The largest mechanical puppet in action and a short tribute to the local coal miners with wild firework Display at the Elsecar Heritage Centre in the railway iron works yard in South Yorkshire, England, With magnificent performance of this massive 11 metre high metal constructed puppet set in this original historic mining village.
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Bransby Williams - Spotty - Monologue - WW1 - 78 rpm - Numark TTX
Here's the great actor and music hall monologist Bransby Williams (1870 - 1961) reciting the World War One Monologue Spotty from a 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1915.
Bransby Williams (born as Bransby William Pharez) (14 August 1870 – 3 December 1961) was a British actor, comedian and monologist. He became known as The Irving of the music halls.
Born in Hackney, London, the son of William Meshech Pharez and Margaret Giles (née Booth), Bransby Williams began his working life as a tea taster in Mincing Lane before working in the design department of a wallpaper manufacturer.[2] He appeared as an amateur actor before turning professional doing impersonations of Dan Leno, Gus Elen, Joe Elvin, Albert Chevalier and other music hall stars in working men's clubs. His first appearance in a music hall was at The London Music Hall in Shoreditch on 26 August 1896, during which he gave impersonations of the leading actors of that time, including Henry Irving in The Bells, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Svengali from the popular play Trilby, adapted from George Du Maurier's novel of the same name.
In 1897 Williams first created a variety of characters, including many from the works of Dickens such as Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Bill Sikes and Fagin. In 1898 he appeared as Sydney Carton in The Noble Deed, based on A Tale of Two Cities at the Oxford Theatre.[3] He performed in monologues, recitations and sketches, including the Lounger and The Green Eye of the Yellow God.
Later in his career Williams was a regular on radio and television. In 1946 he toured in an adaptation of Edward Percy's The Shop at Sly Corner.[4] In 1950 he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a BBC television version of A Christmas Carol.[6] Also in 1950, aged 80, he toured as Maddoc Thomas in The Light of the Heart. For the BBC he played the role of Mathias, made famous by Henry Irving, in a live television production of The Bells on 14 March 1950. He had first played the role on stage over fifty years before while on tour.[1] He also was a guest on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs on 4 November 1957 and appeared on BBC Television's This is Your Life in 1958, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
He appeared in a number of films, including Royal England, a Story of an Empire's Throne (1911); Hard Times (1915) as Gradgrind; the title role in Adam Bede (1918);[7] The Adventures of Mr Pickwick (1921);[8] Scrooge (1928), made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process; The Common Touch (1941); Those Kids from Town (1942); Tomorrow We Live (1943); The Agitator (1945) and Judgment Deferred (1952).[9] He also made a number of audio recordings for Edison, including The Awakening of Scrooge and The Street Watchman's Christmas, both in 1913.[4]
Following his death a plaque was unveiled to his memory in the actors' church St Paul's in Covent Garden by Sir Michael Redgrave.
Williams married Emilie Margaret Dent in London on 20 February 1892. He died in London in 1961 aged 91 and was survived by his daughters, Winnie, Ida and Betty, and by his son, the actor Eric Bransby Williams. His eldest son, Captain William George Bransby Williams, MC, RFC (6 January 1898 – 12 May 1917) (known as Sonny) was killed during World War I.[10][11] His body was never found.
Bransby Williams's youngest daughter, Betty (1909–2001) had a son Eric Paul Corin (born 1948), who runs Magnificent Music Machines, near Liskeard in Cornwall.[12] Here, as well as hearing Player Pianos and the 1929 Wurlitzer Theatre Organ from the Regent Cinema, Brighton, one can hearing recordings of Bransby Williams, on phonograph cylinders and 78 r.p.m.
Cornish Orchards - Mulling it Over
It was really good fun this year filming at Cornish Orchards in the village of Duloe, Liskeard. Watch to find out about the humble beginnings of the successful orchard and how they make their apple juices and cider.
Bransby Williams - The Coward - Monologue - 78 rpm - Numark TTX
Here's the great actor and music hall monologist Bransby Williams (1870 - 1961) reciting the World War One Monologue The Coward from a 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1915.
Bransby Williams (born as Bransby William Pharez) (14 August 1870 – 3 December 1961) was a British actor, comedian and monologist. He became known as The Irving of the music halls.
Born in Hackney, London, the son of William Meshech Pharez and Margaret Giles (née Booth), Bransby Williams began his working life as a tea taster in Mincing Lane before working in the design department of a wallpaper manufacturer.[2] He appeared as an amateur actor before turning professional doing impersonations of Dan Leno, Gus Elen, Joe Elvin, Albert Chevalier and other music hall stars in working men's clubs. His first appearance in a music hall was at The London Music Hall in Shoreditch on 26 August 1896, during which he gave impersonations of the leading actors of that time, including Henry Irving in The Bells, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Svengali from the popular play Trilby, adapted from George Du Maurier's novel of the same name.
In 1897 Williams first created a variety of characters, including many from the works of Dickens such as Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Bill Sikes and Fagin. In 1898 he appeared as Sydney Carton in The Noble Deed, based on A Tale of Two Cities at the Oxford Theatre.[3] He performed in monologues, recitations and sketches, including the Lounger and The Green Eye of the Yellow God.
Later in his career Williams was a regular on radio and television. In 1946 he toured in an adaptation of Edward Percy's The Shop at Sly Corner.[4] In 1950 he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a BBC television version of A Christmas Carol.[6] Also in 1950, aged 80, he toured as Maddoc Thomas in The Light of the Heart. For the BBC he played the role of Mathias, made famous by Henry Irving, in a live television production of The Bells on 14 March 1950. He had first played the role on stage over fifty years before while on tour.[1] He also was a guest on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs on 4 November 1957 and appeared on BBC Television's This is Your Life in 1958, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
He appeared in a number of films, including Royal England, a Story of an Empire's Throne (1911); Hard Times (1915) as Gradgrind; the title role in Adam Bede (1918);[7] The Adventures of Mr Pickwick (1921);[8] Scrooge (1928), made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process; The Common Touch (1941); Those Kids from Town (1942); Tomorrow We Live (1943); The Agitator (1945) and Judgment Deferred (1952).[9] He also made a number of audio recordings for Edison, including The Awakening of Scrooge and The Street Watchman's Christmas, both in 1913.[4]
Following his death a plaque was unveiled to his memory in the actors' church St Paul's in Covent Garden by Sir Michael Redgrave.
Williams married Emilie Margaret Dent in London on 20 February 1892. He died in London in 1961 aged 91 and was survived by his daughters, Winnie, Ida and Betty, and by his son, the actor Eric Bransby Williams. His eldest son, Captain William George Bransby Williams, MC, RFC (6 January 1898 – 12 May 1917) (known as Sonny) was killed during World War I.[10][11] His body was never found.
Bransby Williams's youngest daughter, Betty (1909–2001) had a son Eric Paul Corin (born 1948), who runs Magnificent Music Machines, near Liskeard in Cornwall.[12] Here, as well as hearing Player Pianos and the 1929 Wurlitzer Theatre Organ from the Regent Cinema, Brighton, one can hearing recordings of Bransby Williams, on phonograph cylinders and 78 r.p.m.
St Cuthbert's Chapel, Ushaw College, Durham, England
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Durham cathedral. Got half way round before they decided they didn't want me to film
St Keyne Wishing Well Halt - Rural Railway Station
Situated on the Looe Valley Line in rural Cornwall, the single platform at St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station is only long enough for one train coach.
Services on the route are operated by First Great Western. The station is served irregularly by trains to Liskeard and Looe.
Photographs and video footage shot using a Nikon D5000. Monday, May 3, 2010.
Dudley Savage 3
Dudley Savage was born on 20 March 1920 near Penzance, in the village of Gulval. His mother played the organ there in the village church and taught him in their home how to play the piano. He moved on to study the organ under the instruction of organists at Truro Cathedral and with other instructors in Cornwall and Plymouth.
In 1938, as an 18-year-old, he was chosen as the organist for the ABC Royal Cinema in Plymouth which had been constructed that year and included a Compton theatre organ with eight ranks of pipes plus a Compton Melotone unit. With a break for military service, he remained at the ABC organ until the cinema was converted into a bingo hall in 1976.
World War II: Savage was called up for military service in 1940, serving in India. He was a lance bombardier prior to being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 12 August 1943, later rising to the rank of captain. After his discharge from military service in 1946, he returned to his position at Royal Cinema.
His hospital request radio programme 'As Prescribed' started in June 1948 as a weekly broadcast from ABC's Royal Cinema in Plymouth. Savage not only presented the hour-long show, but played requests on the organ from listeners who were sick in hospital or housebound. After the BBC cancelled the show following the 22 September 1968 broadcast, more than 43,000 signatures were collected on a petition submitted to the BBC, in addition to letters sent to the Chairman of Governors of the BBC and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The petition was submitted, accompanied by protesters carrying banners in what was described as perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind the BBC has known. After a brief hiatus, the BBC reinstated it as a monthly show in 1969, continuing 'As Prescribed' for another decade, and later moving the programme to Radio 2. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours.
He went on concert tours throughout the UK and Europe, displaying for his audiences what author and organist Jonathan Mann described as an incredibly distinctive style with a particular gift for harmony.
In response to his death, the Cinema Organ Society eulogised Savage as someone who had delighted organ fans up and down the country as well as in Europe and as one of the last surviving organists from the great days when cinema organs were to be heard constantly on the wireless.
Savage died at age 88 on 25 November 2008 at a nursing home near Liskeard after a long illness.