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Hello,
and welcome to arthurlloyd.co.uk There are currently over 1,300 pages of information on this site and more than 4,000 images. This site is dedicated to Arthur Lloyd, Actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, and music hall performer 1839 - 1904.
This website began life back in 2001 when I decided that my Great Grandfather Arthur Lloyd, the once incredibly popular song writer, playwright, actor, and Music Hall performer, should have a presence on the Internet. Despite his considerable fame only 100 or so years ago, by the beginning of the 21st century he had been largely forgotten by almost everyone. Over the years I have collected many items relating to his life, including press cuttings, programmes, posters, books, magazines, postcards, and original song sheets and I had long felt the need to let them reach a wider audience. With the Internet there was finally somewhere I could help bring Arthur Lloyd and his entire Theatrical Family back into the public consciousness. I am involved in the business myself and have been working in professional theatre for over thirty years; in most of the West End Theatres of London; for The National Theatre on the south bank; and for many touring productions around Britain. Working in theatre for so long and being the descendant of so many celebrated Victorian Artistes has provided me with a great deal of experience and interest in the history of Music Hall and British Theatre. I often find myself working in the same Theatres that my famous ancestors, Horatio Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd, Katty King, and T.C. King, performed in so many years ago. I also have a long held passion for Theatre architecture itself and am interested in the preservation of Britain's Theatrical heritage, so you will find a great deal of information here on Theatres and Music Halls throughout the UK, many of them long ago demolished. This Website allows me to indulge these two passions in one place; my famous ancestors; and Theatre Architecture, both of which, I believe, compliment each other... And my site's visitors would seem to agree. Now in its eighth year online the website receives over 3,000 individual visitors a day and serves over 5,000 pages a day to people situated all over the world. In 2007 the site served a total of 1,450,394 individual pages to 955,663 unique visitors, (almost a million people). The total hits on the site, including images was 10,731,859 with a total bandwidth of 216.76 GB. If proof of concept was needed then I think these statistics should be proof enough. Finally, I am indebted to the following people, whose help, generosity, and sheer enthusiasm, have made this site what it is today. Peter Charlton, Jennifer Carnell , Frederick Denny, Norman King Lloyd, Ted Bottle, Gareth Price, Adam McNaughtan, John Earl, John Moffatt, Donald Auty, Alan Chudley, John Grice, John A. Strubbe, Gary Magold, Graeme Smith, and many many others, too numerous to mention here who have supplied images, cuttings, programmes, bills, and other items relating to Arthur Lloyd and his career, and also for the countless Theatres all over Britain. Thank you to you all, please keep them coming! If you have any comments on this site, or related material you may wish to share, please Contact me... .I hope
you enjoy this site.
____________________________________________________________________________________________ This site is Archived by the British Library
And has been selected by Beesker as the world's best website on Music Hall. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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