Wigan Album
Hippodrome
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Item #: 1255
I can just about remember queing up to see Cinderella with Mum and Dad. The 'actors' brought a real Shetland pony on Stage. There was also a comic (A tall lanky man) who always used to say EEH aren't plums cheap!!
I remember the Hippodrome. We were taken there during our evacuation to Ashton either 1941 or 1942. I remember the dancing girls some with beautiful red dresses and some in pink.
I was taken to the Hippodrome by my Grandpa Bryson to see a show. I remember a man played the harmonica & then threw mini ones out into the audience, imagine that being allowed today ! Also on the bill was Betty Driver, Betty Turpin of Coronation St, she wore & pink tulle dress, had blonde hair, played a white piano & had a white poodle with her. I thought she was really something. Think I went to a panto there as well.
My mother ran a boarding house in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Six months of the year, we had variety turns and the other six months we had the repertory actors staying with us.The landladies were able to go to the theatre on the first house on a Monday evening. I remember going on to the stage when a roller skating act called for a volunteer from the audience to go on stage and I was swung aroung by the group. Magic!