On Thursday 19th September 2019, 10.00am to 11.00am, at Sherwood Library Join Dr Ann Featherstone for this talk, which explores fascinating glimpses into Edwardian entertainment, using Race’s journals and a large collection of contemporary images.
Sydney Race, from his early teens, kept an irregular journal in which he wrote about his fascination with the amusements Nottingham had to offer. The annual Goose Fair where Race first saw moving pictures, visits from tenting circuses and portable theatres, freak shows which established themselves briefly in empty shops, and the Theatre Royal, where he saw Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.