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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1907

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A Mansion Fire. Englemere Lodge. Valuable Pictures Destroyed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 5

Englemere Lodge, the residence of Sir William Miller, Bart., was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, 7th March. Many thousands of…

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Girls' High School Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1907 · page 4

In the School of Arts on Monday next a concert and dramatic entertainment for the Girls' High School will be given. Home-made sweets will be sold during the evening, and a very pleasant time…

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Besses o' the Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 May 1907 · page 2

Mr. G. V. Portus, who is heralding the approach of The Messes o' the Barn Band is at present, in West Maitland, preparing arrangements for two performances to be given…

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Besses o' the Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 4

A very pleasing announcement is that made by J. and N. Tait that the Royal Besses of th' Barn Band are to visit West Maitland on Tuesday next, June 4, and give two of their…

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Ball in School of Arts

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 2

This was jointly in aid of the piano fund of the School of Arts and the Aberdeen Bicycle Club. There were about fifty couple…

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The Band Strikers. Dispersed by Troops. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 2

Number's of the poor Dutch population are offering themselves for service on the Rand mines, and the strikers are thus gradually being…

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Concert and Dramatic Entertainment. Girls' High School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1907 · page 7

A most successful concert and dramatic entertainment was held in the School of Arts last evening, the object being to raise funds to provide looks and other educational requisites for the library of the…

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The Bosses o' th' Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 May 1907 · page 4

The man that has no music in his soul and is not moved by concord of sweet sounds in fit for "treason's stratagems and spoils" was the dictum of the Bard of Avon 800 years ago. And it is said that…

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Ball in School of Arts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1907 · page 2

This was jointly in aid of the piano fund of the School of Arts, and the Aberdeen Bicycle Club. There were about fifty couples present…

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The Besses of th Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 2

It has been now definitely settled that the Besses o' the Barn Band are to play here next Tuesday, first at the Albion Ground at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and in the Town…

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Juvenile Ball

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

This year the usual routine was departed from, the second night (Thursday) being devoted solely to juvenile dancing, whereas previously they only had charge of the…

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The Bosses o' th' Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 4

Fresh from triumphs at the Christchurch Exhibition and the southern centres, where their appearances have been marked by record attendances the Besses o' Th' Barn Band is to…

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Annual Hospital Ball. a Great Success

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

For some years past there has been a considerable falling off in the attendance and popularity of the local annual Hospital Ball, various reasons for which are…

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Concert Lectures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 1

On Saturday, 18th inst., a concert lecture entertainment was given at Clareval under the auspices of the Methodist Church to a…

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Singleton Band

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

[?] the Singleton Town Band, in full uniform, will render a programme of popular music Burdekin park to-morrow afternoon…

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The Besses o' th Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

Messrs. J. and N. Tait, with characteristic enterprise, have brought to Australia the world-famous Besses o' Th' Band, a historical combination of Lancashire weavers,…

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Plain and Fancy Dress Ball

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 3

The plain and fancy dress hall, on Friday evening, May 24, in aid of the funds of the Cessnock and District Band, was a great success. The…

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The Besses O' the Barn Band. Its Past History

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 5

The Besses [?]' the Barn Band—socalled after the name of the village in Lancashire from whence they come—which is now on a country tour after…

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The Band Strike. Attitude of the Owners. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 6

Mr Albu, one of the directors of the General Mining unit finance Corporation of Johannesburg, addressing a meeting of the company, declared that…

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The Besses of the Barn Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 June 1907 · page 2

To-morrow afternoon, on the Albion Ground at 3 o'clock, and in the Town Hall in too evening at 8, the famous Basses of the Barn Band are be delight residents of this and surrounding districts with two…

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