Pictures taken and/or uploaded by me:
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Stanley Holloway's grave in East Sussex
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English Heritage blue plaque at 25 Albany Road, London
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Stanley Holloway's birthplace; 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, London
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Stanley Holloway, Violet Lane and Julian Holloway arriving at JFK airport
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Stanley Holloway's sister Millie
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Drawing of Sam Small
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Dramatist, Charles Dibdin, the younger
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Music hall comedian and singer Mark Sheridan; originator of "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"
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Dan Leno as the Shopwalker
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Herbert Campbell and Harry Nicholls
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Dan Leno in character as Sister Ann in 1901
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Front page of Dan Leno's magazine
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Dan Leno wearing the royal tie pin
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Blue plaque at 56 Akerman Road, Lambeth, London
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Dan Leno's birthplace, 56 Akerman Road, Lambeth, London
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Dan Leno's grave in Tooting Cemetery, Lambeth
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English Heritage blue plaque at Joseph Grimaldi's former home at 56 Exmouth Market, Islington
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56 Exmouth Market, Islington
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Joseph Grimaldi's grave in Joseph Grimaldi Park, Pentonville, London
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George Cruikshank sketch of Joseph Grimaldi taken from the Memoirs
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Giuseppe Grimaldi in 1788
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Joseph Grimaldi in 1819
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Taken from the Christmas Pantomime "Harlequin Olio", staged at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1816
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Original clown appearance, designed by Joseph Grimaldi backstage at the Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Leno dressed as a dame for the 1899 pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk
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Joseph Samuel Grimaldi as Scaramouch
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An 1815 painting of Clare Market, London by Thomas Shepherd
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The 19th century actor J.S. Grimaldi, son of the more famous Joseph
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The interior of Sadler's Wells theatre in 1809
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The music hall singer Marie Lloyd with her husband Alec Hurley
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Leno and Herbert Campbell in The Babes in the Wood (1897)
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Leno (top), Johny Danvers (middle) and Herbert Campbell
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Laura Ormiston Chant in 1893
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An 1891 sketch of various pantomime characters by Phil May
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Marie Lloyd c.1900
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Frank Matcham, architect extraordinaire
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The Cockney music hall composer and comedian Harry Champion
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Lloyd with her family
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Lloyd's plaque erected in 1977 at 55 Graham Road, Hackney
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Lloyd's plaque
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Gus Elen, 1900s
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Lloyd with second husband Alec Hurley
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Empire Theatre, Leicester Square
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Vesta Tilley in the late 1900s
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Harry Fragson in the 1900s
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The Eagle Tavern, Hoxton
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Tivoli Music Hall, The Strand
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The American Impresario Tony Pastor in 1894
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Little Tich on stage in France c. 1900
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Little Tich as a soldier during a sketch in the 1890s
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Little Tich in "blackface" during his early career in the 1880s
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Birthplace of Little Tich, The Blacksmiths Arms in Cudham
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Little Tich in an 1890s performance of The Serpentine Dance
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Little Tich on stage in costume while singing "I Could Do—Could Do—Could Do With a Bit" in the 1890s
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Rosherville Pleasure Gardens in Kent
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Mark Sheridan, famous for first performing I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside
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Mark Sheridan on stage in 1907
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Plaque at The Blacksmiths Arms in Cudham
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A pencil sketch by the music hall comedian Little Tich
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93 Shirehall Park in Hendon. The last address lived in by Little Tich
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The French music hall actress Mistinguett
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George Robey by H. Walter Barnett in the 1910s
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Robey as "The Prime Minister of Mirth"
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Kennington Road, London c. 1860
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Robey make-up design of thick eyebrows and balding wig
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Lees Knowles in 1909
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The radio comedian Norman Evans, 1939
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The theatre impresario Oswald Stoll
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Robey, depicted in a collection of Royal Mail stamps issued in 1921 in aid of the scout movement
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"The Mayor of Mudcumdyke", an early character for Robey in variety theatre
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Robey in flannels at a charity event in 1902
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Robey (left), Violet Loraine and Alfred Lester during a publicity shot for The Bing Boys are Here in 1916
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The theatrical writer Owen Hall
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Chevalier in "coster" costume, c. 1890
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Chevalier later on in life
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Chevalier on stage
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A preserved Ford RS200 with 125 miles on the odometer. Taken at Ford's Heritage Museum in Dagenham.
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The Dutch cellist and composer Auguste van Biene
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The former public house Jack Straw's Castle in Hampstead, West London
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Formally Whitehall Police station, the Curtis Green Building (left in white) will become the new home of Scotland Yard in 2015–16
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The music hall actress Marie Kendall
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Bronze bust and memorial plaque of Sir Michael Hordern in "The Hordern Room" at Brighton College
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Bronze bust of Michael Hordern at Brighton College
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Memorial plaque of Michael Hordern in "The Hordern Room" at Brighton College
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The Irish physician Sir James Murray
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Chigwell Hall, built in 1876 to a design by by R. Norman Shaw. Now a sports club owned by the Metropolitan Police Service.
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The English music hall comedian Harry Nicholls in 1897
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James Elliston, proprietor of the Theatre Royal and Opera House, Stockport, who afforded Frank Matcham his big theatrical break
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Original drawing of the Hackney Empire facade, 1901
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Grand Circle of the Hackney Empire
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Basement plan of the Hackney Empire
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The design of the Pit at the Hackney Empire
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View from the moat at Rochford Hall, Rochford, Essex