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A series of historic posters of Tewkesbury fetched exceptional prices at Church Street Auctions last month. Dating from late Victorian times, the collection featured advertising hoardings and posters for Tewkesbury’s forgotten theatres, one of which was purchased for Tewkesbury Museum. Tewkesbury Historical Society’s John Dixon gives us this fascinating insight into two of the posters auctioned. sibly above the shop gious congregation from Coroner who left the which is now TSB. 1805 to 1861. town in 1901: “He just In 1891 he had This production feadisappeared. He went moved next door to 146tured local people as from his office to the 7, now partly Julian “principal vocalists.” railway station, was Graves . It could be that Miss Ellen B. Morgan seen in Gloucester and his “Manufactory” was was the daughter of the then - oblivion.” (Linnell located in St. Mary’s of the Headmaster ‘Gossip’) Lane (today it is a car Grammar School; Henry From 1902 onwards park). In March 1901 Peacey was a Clerk in Shakespeare Shenton he was a witness, folthe Shirt factory (now showed the first regular lowing the death of a Elliot Court); G P movies in Tewkesbury in mother from poison. Chinneck was an Income this hall. “The bottle was labelled Tax Officer; George E. The delightful work of laudanum, supplied by Hayward was one of the art (above) advertised Mr. F.R. Sellors”. Ironmonger brothers the business of Frederick Sellors, himself, died who lived at Watledge B Sellors, who described two months later in House (now a doctors’ himself in 1891 as a Birmingham. surgery); Henry G. “Chemist & Druggist & The Philharmonic Hall Kitching, a plumber, of Cattle Spice Man”. of 1898 became our Oldbury Road; Samuel Sellors had been born in Watson Hall after 1909. Mayall a Miller of 1847 in Derbyshire and It was the venue for Millbank while Frederick is first recorded in different types of conW. Moore, son of the Tewkesbury in the 1876 certs - but the building owner of the Directory, when he lived was the chapel for the Tewkesbury Register at 145 High Street; posgrowing Quaker reli(now Echo) was the
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