Blackpool Showbitz - Barry Band's Blackpool Entertainment Heritage Newsletter Winter 2007

 

 

Above - Blackpool Showbitz - Barry Band's Blackpool Entertainment Heritage Newsletter Winter 2007 - Courtesy Barry Band

Barry Band, *Researcher and publisher of Blackpool's Entertainment Heritage, and the author of the following Titles which are availiable at the Grand Theatre's own Website here...

All For a Laugh A national anthology of stars from all spheres of comedy; stage, film, radio and TV. 600 artists.
The Centenary History of the Grand Theatre (1994) Out of print
Blackpool's Century of Stars (1999, updated 2002, updated 2007)
Blackpool's Comedy Greats/Stars who lived at the seaside (2003). Illustrated.
That Was Showbiz (2003) - Memoirs of entertainments chief Bernard Crabtree. Illustrated.
Matcham's Masterpiece (2007) - Brief History of the Grand with archival section. Illustrated
The Main Stage (2005) - History of the Blackpool Opera House with archival section. Illustrated
*Commisioned writer, Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night, Blackpool heritage programme, 1994.
*Consultant to authors, Press and Radio researchers on the resort's stage history.
*Talks to Rotary, Inner Wheel and Probus Clubs, W1s, local history groups, lunch clubs.

An extract from Barry's book 'The Main Stage The History of the Blackpool Opera House' can be found on this site here.

 

 

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