BP22 [Untitled 4]
Adverts and ephemera for Pickard's cinemas, including the Britannia Panopticon, Clydebank Gaiety, Casino, Ibrox Picture Palace and Seamore.
Subjects: Social history, Variety Theatre
Coverage: 1915-1918
Contributor: Pickard's Papers Project
Source: Pickard's Scrapbooks collection at Royal Scottish Conservatoire Archives.
Format: Original: Hard-bound paper scrapbook
Pages in the BP22 [Untitled 4] scrapbook
BP22.05
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an article about the theft of chocolate from an automatic machine.
BP22.13
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an article about the sale of the Ibrox Picture Palace contents.
BP22.15
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an advert for the sale/lease of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.
BP22.16
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus Moss Empires Ltd.ﾒs 3rd annual amateur carnival.
BP22.17
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus Moss Empires Ltd.ﾒs 3rd annual amateur carnival.
BP22.18
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an article about Ibrox Picture Palace manager W. Sowerby and his experience on HMS Majestic.
BP22.19
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an article about a parking offence outside a picture house.
BP22.20
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum, a short story about a war veteran and the Britannia Panopticon; plus an article about a fire at the Cambridge Circus Cinema.
BP22.25
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an advert for an open competition at the Princes Theatre, Liverpool.
BP22.28
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum, the death of showman George Green, and fundraising for the Red Cross.
BP22.29
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum, applications to open theatres on Sunday evenings, and a giant lobster caught at Treshnish Isles.
BP22.32
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum.
BP22.33
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum.
BP22.34
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music Halls; plus a sketch about cinema culture.
BP22.36
Newspaper cuttings about A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and his separation from wife Caroline Pauline Pickard.
BP22.38
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum.
BP22.40
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls and museum; plus an article about a fire at the Paisley Hippodrome.
BP22.41
Newspaper cuttings about a fire at the Paisley Hippodrome and an article about a cinema operator being called up for military service.
BP22.42
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls; plus an article about the Savoy Theatre.
BP22.43
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls; plus an article about a tramcar theft.
BP22.44
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls; plus an article about amusement tax.
BP22.48
Newspaper cuttings about the first person in the UK to pay amusement tax; the person was a teenage boy given a ﾣ1 note gift from A.E. Pickard after he bought tickets to Pickardﾒs museum.
BP22.49
Newspaper cuttings about the first person in the UK to pay amusement tax; the person was a teenage boy given a ﾣ1 note gift from A.E. Pickard after he bought tickets to Pickardﾒs museum. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and about Guy E.…
BP22.50
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls; plus an article about the drowning of Mary Ann Richardson.
BP22.51
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and about T. M. Paul ﾖ an employee of A.E. Pickard.
BP22.52
Newspaper cuttings both advertising and about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls. Also articles advertising for music hall acts and a Britannia Panopticon programme.
BP22.54B
Page from The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly
BP22.54C
Newspaper cuttings about the programme of A.E. Pickardﾒs music halls; plus a torn page from The Norwood cinemaﾒs financial records.
BP22.54D
Back of previous image of scrapbook loose contents.
Homeless Serbs
Newspaper advertisement for Pickard's show featuring Serbian refugees during First World War
Entertainment Tax cartoon
Cartoon from the Bioscope about Glaswegian schoolboy Hugh Brown, who was reputed to be the first person in the UK to pay the new entertainments tax by buying a ticket to Pickard's American Museum at 9.40am on 19 May 1916.
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