| The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain & America and the Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America | |
| Formation: | 18 September 1985 |
| Type: | Charitable organization |
| Leader Title: | Chairman of Trustees |
| Leader Name: | Matthew Neil |
| Leader Title2: | Founder |
| Leader Name2: | Adrian Barry |
| Main Organ: | Board of Trustees |
The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America and the Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America is a registered theatre charity and non-profit making theatre organisation based in London.[1] The Guild's patrons include Brian Croucher, Anita Dobson, Sheila Ferguson, Jessica Martin, Lorraine Chase, Gillian Gregory, Mark Lester, and Shani Wallis.[2]
The aims of the Guild are:
The Guild's activities include research, the collection of theatre archive, exhibitions, professional theatre productions, reminiscence, educational and restoration projects.[3] The Guild erects commemorative blue plaques and cares for the final resting places of many music hall, variety, vaudeville, musical comedy, theatre and pantomime artistes, including Nelly Power, George Leybourne, Albert Chevalier, Herbert Campbell, Edmund Payne, Kay Kendall, Marie Lloyd, Lupino Lane, Dan Leno and Gabrielle Ray.[4]
The Guild had an income of £57,854 in 2009–10, the majority of which was spent on restoration and commemoration projects.[5]
| Date | Subject | Memorial | Venue | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Music Hall and Variety stars | Variety Artistes Benevolent Fund memorial stone | Streatham Park Cemetery | The stone commemorates over 200 music hall and variety performers buried there. They received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a new memorial garden and create an on-line database.[6] [7] [8] | |
| 2009 | Restoration of gravestone | Streatham Park Cemetery | Erected to mark the 50th anniversary of Lane's death, and held a memorial service at the Actors' Church, Covent Garden with a reception at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[9] | ||
| 8 November 2010 | Male impersonator Hetty King | Blue plaque | 19 Palmerston Road, Wimbledon | Hetty King's last home | |
| 5 March 2011 | Music Hall Comedian Austin Rudd | Restoration of gravestone | St Lawrence Church, Morden[10] | ||
| 25 September 2011 | Blue plaque | Okeover Manor, Clapham Common Northside | Marie Kendall's last home in Clapham | ||
| 26 November 2011 | Music Hall comedian Herbert Campbell | Restoration of gravestone | Abney Park Cemetery | ||
| 10 March 2012 | Musical Comedy actress Marie Studholme | Blue plaque and restoration of gravestone | East Finchley Cemetery[11] | ||
| 11 May 2012 | Music Hall star Nelly Power | Restoration of gravestone | Abney Park Cemetery[12] | ||
| 3 August 2012 | Music Hall star Dan Crawley | Restoration of gravestone | Rededicated his memorial on 21 October 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of Crawley's death and re-cleaned in March 2016.[13] | ||
| 27 August 2012 | Composer G. W. Hunt | Restoration of gravestone | Abney Park Cemetery[14] | ||
| 30 September 2012 | Music Hall impresario Fred Karno | Blue plaque | Clockwork Studios, Southwell Road, Camberwell[15] | Erected at Fred Karno's former Fun Factory where the likes of Charles Chaplin, Fred Kitchen and Stan Laurel learn their skills. | |
| 20 October 2012 | Music Hall star Walter Laburnum | Restoration of gravestone | Abney Park Cemetery[16] | ||
| 8 May 2013 | Music Hall star Fred Albert | Restoration of gravestone | Abney Park Cemetery[17] | ||
| 22 September 2013 | Actress Kay Kendall | Restoration of gravestone | St John-at-Hampstead Church in Hampstead, London[18] | ||
| 28 September 2013 | Music Hall star Alice Lloyd | Restoration of gravestone | All Saints Churchyard, Banstead, Surrey[19] | ||
| 7 October 2013 | Music Hall star Marie Lloyd | Blue plaque | 37 Woodstock Road, Golders Green[20] | Marie Lloyd's last home. | |
| 20 October 2013 | Music Hall star Alice Lloyd | Blue plaque | 239 Banstead Road, Surrey | Alice Lloyd's last home. | |
| 15 June 2014 | Lupino Lane | Blue plaque | 32 Maida Vale, London[21] | Lupino Lane's former home. | |
| 29 June 2014 | Comedian & Actor Edmund Payne | Restoration of memorial | Abney Park Cemetery[22] | ||
| 21 August 2014 | Music Hall performer Joe O'Gorman (senior) | Restoration of memorial | Putney Vale Cemetery | ||
| 6 September 2014 | Kay Kendall | Blue plaque | 61 Hull Road, Withernsea, East Yorkshire[23] | The house where Kay Kendall was born | |
| 2 October 2014 | Nellie Farren | Restoration of memorial | Brompton Cemetery[24] | ||
| 2 October 2014 | Farren Soutar | Restoration of memorial | Brompton Cemetery[25] | ||
| 18 October 2014 | Gus Elen | Restoration of memorial | Streatham Park Cemetery | Gus Elen grave restored[26] | |
| 30 May 2015 | Music Hall Performer Lew Lake | Restoration of memorial | Abney Park Cemetery[27] | ||
| 5 September 2015 | Music Hall Comedian Austin Rudd | Blue plaque | 254 Edgware Road, London W2 1DS[28] | ||
| 25 November 2015 | Comedian Herbert Campbell | Blue plaque | 44 Lawford Road, Hackney[29] | ||
| 16 February 2016 | Comedian Stanley Lupino | Blue plaque | 33 Ardbeg Road, Herne Hill, London[30] | ||
| 16 February 2016 | Actress and Director Ida Lupino | Blue plaque | 33 Ardbeg Road, Herne Hill, London[31] | The birthplace of Ida Lupino | |
| 27 March 2016 | Comedian Fred Kitchen | Restoration of Grave | West Norwood Cemetery[32] | ||
| 27 March 2016 | Pantomimist R. H. Kitchen | Restoration of Grave | West Norwood Cemetery[33] | ||
| 29 July 2016 | Actor Fred Allandale | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery[34] | ||
| 29 July 2016 | Actress Maie Ash | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery | ||
| 12 August 2016 | Harry Nicholls (comedian) | Restoration of Grave | Old Chiswick Cemetery[35] | ||
| 14 August 2016 | Actress Fannie Leslie | Restoration of Grave | St Pancras and Islington Cemetery[36] | ||
| 15 September 2016 | Music Hall comedian Jenny Hill (music hall performer) | Restoration of Grave | Nunhead Cemetery[37] | ||
| 3 November 2016 | Tom McNaughton (Comedian) | Restoration of Grave | Hampstead Cemetery[38] | ||
| 5 November 2016 | Harry Hunter (Composer and Vocalist) | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery | Harry Hunter was one third of the prolific music publishers Francis, Day and Hunter[39] | |
| 6 November 2016 | George Leybourne (Music Hall Vocalist) | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery[40] | ||
| 6 November 2016 | Albert Chevalier (Actor, Comedian, Lyricist and Vocalist) | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery[41] | ||
| 24 February 2017 | Edward Lewis (Actor and Comedian) | Restoration of Grave | Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries[42] | ||
| 30 June 2017 | Samuel Lockhart (Acrobat, Clown & Equestrian) | Restoration of Grave | Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries[43] | Father of George and Samuel Lockhart famous elephant trainers. | |
| 2 July 2017 | William Pinder (Circus Proprietor) | Restoration of Grave | West Norwood Cemetery[44] | ||
| 16 July 2017 | Edmund Payne | Blue Plaque | West Heath Avenue Hampstead[45] | Edmund Payne's last home. | |
| 29 July 2017 | Restoration of Grave | Hampstead Cemetery[46] | |||
| 14 August 2017 | Nelly Power | Blue Plaque | 97 Southgate Road Islington[47] | ||
| 1 September 2017 | Lottie Collins | Restoration of Grave | St Pancras and Islington Cemetery[48] | ||
| 11 September 2017 | Harry Weldon (comedian) | Restoration of Grave | Hampstead Cemetery[49] | ||
| 2 October 2017 | Ben Greet | Restoration of Grave | Charlton Cemetery[50] | ||
| 25 November 2017 | Kate Carney | Restoration of Grave | Putney Vale Cemetery[51] | ||
| 23 December 2017 | Tony Walsh (Comic Juggler) | New Memorial | Streatham Park Cemetery[52] | ||
| 23 December 2017 | Agar Young (Acrobat and Pantomimist) | New Memorial | Streatham Park Cemetery | Agar Young was born John Davidson MacDonald in Scotland and started out as one half of the music hall duo Agar and Young | |
| 15 June 2018 | Nora Posford (Actress and Comedienne) | Restoration of Grave | Abney Park Cemetery[53] | ||
| 24 August 2018 | Anne Shelton (singer) Singer | Restoration of Grave | Camberwell New Cemetery [54] | ||
| 14 November 2018 | Gabrielle Ray (Actress and Dancer) | New Memorial | Englefield Green Cemetery [55] | ||
| 17 May 2019 | Margot Fonteyn | Blue Plaque | This plaque marked the 100th anniversary of Fonteyn's birth [56] | ||
| 7 July 2019 | Thora Hird | Blue Plaque | Leinster Mews Bayswater[57] | ||
| 12 February 2020 | Marie Lloyd | Blue Plaque | 73 Carleton Road, Tuffnell Park N7 | This plaque marked the 150th anniversary of Marie Lloyd's birth [58] | |
| 13 July 2020 | Percy Anderson | New memorial | All Saint's Churchyard, Crondall | This new memorial stone for Percy Anderson marks his grave which has remained anonymous for 92 years [59] | |