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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: [ BRAD] Keighley Characters 2
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:21:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <008701c2d45e$040a6680$de7ecfa9@vbe.com>


"Gail Genereau" <> wrote.....

> My GreatGrandUncle, Ellis Riley from Keighley, gave piano recitals at the
> Alhambra in Bradford. When was your Grandfather there?>

HE joined the Alhambra orchestra in about 1928 and played there
continuously for around 30 years until he retired in the late 1950s.

Of course, he worked for Francis Laidler, the great Bradford
theatrical impressario who built the Alhambra and opened it in 1914.
I have a super book on it called "Domes of Delight" by the former
theatre critic of the Bradford Telegraph & Argus Peter Holdsworth,
published in 1989.

The Alhambra these days is a civic theatre (belonging to the council)
and very resplendent.

Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies)
Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith

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