FIREWORK PROGRAMMES

(18 & 19 undated)

1 & 2 : E.R./A.R. SPECIAL CORONATION FIREWORKS

... Illumination of motto "God save the King and Queen' .... National Anthem ... firework spectacle "The Battle of Paaderberg"... specially prepared Coronation Pictures .... including Westminster Abbey ... arrival of state carriage ... picture ... King Edward and Queen Alexandra. Ends with motto 'The Empire's wish - a glorious reign.'

Duplicate copy, 2.

Framed, headed by crown, centre., verso blank. 12.3cm x 18.8cm.

3, 4 & 5 : ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, BELLE VUE. SEASON 1901

Firework Programme with a description of the panorama ... PEKIN ... FIRST SIGNAL Water Fireworks, Firework Rockets, Signal Maroons, instantaneous illumination of .... picture.

Price One Penny.

4 unnumbered pages & p.3 ... PEKIN Siege and Relief of the British Legation.

p.3 The whole of the Scene has been painted, and the Spectacular and Pyrotechnic Effects designed and arranged by Mr. R. Caney, of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatre, London.

Firework Spectacle ... every day in Whit-week & every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday afterwards to the 5th of November inclusive and during the month of August also on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Correct Guides to the Gardens, with Names of Animals and Birds 'Firework Programmes' only be obtained at the Gardens, Price One Penny each, or by Post ½d extra, on application to JOHN JENNISON & CO. Belle Vue, Manchester

Welsh Brigade ... 5th Volunteer Battalion, Manchester Regiment Fusilier Brigade Lancashire Fusiliers

Medical Corps and Cadet

Brigade. 1st Cadet Battalion, Manchester Regiment ... Battle of Dundee

Illuminated Portrait of Her Majesty ....

p.4. Photograph.

Cream covers.

3. Zoological Gardens, Belle vue, Saturday, November 18th, 1899

PROGRAMME/OF THE/... Torchlight Military/Tatoo and Sham Fight/GIVEN BY THE/2ND BATTALION, MANCHESTER REGIMENT/(LIEUT-COLONEL C.T. REAY)/ASSISTED BY THE/LOCAL VOLUNTEER CORPS.//IN AID OF THE/Manchester & Salford Branch of the/SOUTH AFRICAN WAR FUND//

.......

PRICE ONE PENNY

Mss. pencil note at top of page. In aid of the soldiers' dependents. The S.A. war was said to have been run on public subscription. GJ.

Format : as previous programme

4. Cover as Programmes 1-3, Season 1899 .......

Typical Scenery on the Upper Nile. The BATTLEFIELD OF OMDURMAN ...... RECONQUEST OF THE DUDAN ... baloon, inflated with Gas....

Price One Penny. Framed, foxed. Format as previous guides.

(p.2) ... Mr. R. Caney ... of the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden, and Drury Lane Theatre, London .... Life and Nature on the Nile .... The Firework Spectacle .....

(p.3) Grand Review of the Khalifa's Troops ... illuminated portraits of Lord Kitchener, Lieut-Col Macdonald and Colonel Martin, heroes of Omdurman ....

(p.4) Photo. "Stopping a Dervish Raid"

5. Format as Programmes 1-4 ... Season 1900 ... With a description of the Panorama ... LADYSMITH ... Balloon, inflated with Gas ....

Price One Penny.

(p.2) Siege of Ladysmith

(p.3) ... "The Entry of Lord Dundonald into Ladysmith" .... portrait of .... Field-Marshal, Lord Roberts ... General Buller & French .... heroes of Mafeking.

In small type: The whole of the Scene has been painted and the ... Pyrotechnic effects Designed and Arranged by ... Mr. R. Caney, of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatres, London ....

(p.4) Photo. Siege of Ladysmith. The Boer Laager (Belle Vue, Season 1900)

Soiled & foxed.

4 copies, 3 cream, copy 4 pink. pencil mss note r. cover

My furniture GJ.

6. Programme 1919 : The Right Hon. William Kay, Lord Mayor

Programme/Manchester/Civic Reception/Tuesday, August 12th/1919.//Belle Vue Gardens.// Henry Blacklock & Co. Ltd., Printers, Manchester.// In lower r.h.c. 35 in pencil.

'Art Nouveau' frame., in upper r.h.c. 'one of many 4 unnumbered pages.

(p.2) Programme/5 0 - Tea in the King's Hall/Interval to allow for re-arrangement/of room.//

6 35 to 8-45 /Variety Entertainment/by/Mr. H.R. Dean/ and the Members of the /Minnehaha Amateur Minstrels.//

(p.3) Artistes: - 14 2 Mr Arnold Bennett

Messrs Simmons & Wadsworth Accompanists.

9 15 Firework Display

The arrangement of the Receptions have been made b a Sub-Committee ....

(p.4) ... the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Royal Army Service Corps. the Machine Gun Corps. Cyclists ... represented ...

The arrangement of the Receptions which was settled by ballot ... as follows:

2 cols : Date Regiment

July 30th August 14th

August 7th August 19th

August 12th August 21st

Pink, black frames.

6. 2 Programmes: Imperial Fruit Show, Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester. October 26th - November 3rd, 1923.

Programme/Saturday, October 27th/Besses o'the Barn Band/Saturday, October 27th and Saturday November 3rd. Deckled edges, red type-face in centre.

Verso : Blank

(p.3) : SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 87th

8 items .......

SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 27th as above. God save the King.

Conductor: Mr Harry Barlow.

(p.4) : Printers: Percy Brothers Ltd. Official Printers, Manchester and London.

7. RAILWAY PROGRAMME/RAILWAY YEAR 112/1937/THE RAILWAY/EMPLOYEES//CARNIVAL/OFFICIAL/RAILWAY PROGRAMME/PRICE-2D//BELLE VUE GARDENS,/MANCHESTER,/SATURDAY, SEPT. 11th 1937.// In lower r.h.c. Mark Buckley, Printer, Beswick, Manchester.

Pencil mss notes, in G. Jennison's hand, r.f. cover:

This carnival was started in our Time 1928 and was always as now very popular. I think it is the only show that ever caused B.V. to close its gates GJ Sept. 7th This programme belonged to our ward Hilda who is engaged to a signalman.

Verso : advt.

(1-2), 3-38p

(p.1) Railway Employee's Carnival/Belle Vue Gardens,/Manchester.//Saturday, September 11th 1937.

2 lists in cap. 9 names ticked in red crayon, headed by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Lord Mayor of Liverpool ......

(p.3) Railway Employees' Carnival. Head Office: 36, Sandown Lane, Wavertree, Liverpool.15. General Secretary/BOARD OF MANAGEMENT/Chairman/Vice-Chairman/Treasurer:/Board Members:/Auditors:/

The Board is elected to Office at the Annual General Meeting, board Members are elected for 3 years. This body directs the activities and the policy of all matters connected with the Organisations and acts .....

p.4 IN THE IMPERIAL GARDENS, PEKIN/SEASON 1901.

Lower r.h.c. HORROCKS & CO. LITHOS ASHTON, multi-lithographs

Framed

Duplicates.

6,7,8 & 9) Fireworks Programmes, Season 1902.

(p.2) FIREWORK SPECTACLE Battle of Paaderberg ...

(p.3) ... specially prepared CORONATION PICTURES .... KING EDWARD AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA ... designed by MR. R. CANEY, of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatres.

(p.4) BATTLE OF PAADERBERG, lower r.h.c. HORROCKS & SONS

LITHOS,

ASHTON.

Multi-lithograph v.p.l of 6) pencil mss note Note enclosure

King Edward VII, in G.Jennison's hand.

9 duplicates.

10. Programme for Season 1903, format as previous programmes.

(p.2) : Capture of Gibraltar, 1704

(p.3) : "Sir George Rooke, ..."

The Army represented by artillerymen ... H.R.H. Duke of Connaught ... Commander of the Troops in Ireland .... Opposite ... Lieut-Colonel George Kemp, M.P. (Heywood, Lancashire) ....

... Scene painted ... Pyrotechnic effects ... arranged by ... Mr. R. Caney, of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatres, London.

(p.4) : ... Capture of Gibraltar. Pencil mss note We had a 24 sheet done of this ... over England.

Multi-lithography : HORROCKS & CO. LITHOS ASHTON.

11 - 15. Season 1904. Format as above.

(p.2) : The Attack on Port Arthur ....

(p.3) : The Railway across Lake Baikal ... designed by Mr. R. Caney, of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatres, London ....

(p.4) : Port of Arthur.

Multi-lithography, HORROCKS & CO. LITHOS. ASHTON

Duplicates.

16. Season 1925 ...... Price One penny.

... The Sacred Grove ... THE CANNIBALS ... from the ... adventures of Andrew Battell ... 1589-1607 ... In lower l.h.c. 32, in pencil.

4 unnumbered pages (p.2) EVENING SPECTACLE/FIRST SIGNAL GUN ...

BALLOON, inflated with gas .....

SECOND SIGNAL GUN ....

(p.3) ... OPENING OF THE IDOL'S FEAST ....

(p.1) ... The display closes with a Triple Set of Whirling Flames ... The whole of the Panorama, Spectacle and Pyrotechnic Effects of .... BERNARD HASTAIN, ESQ.

Printed at the Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester.

Deep pink, (p.1), framed, double.

17. 1937 ... CORONATION YEAR/AND EIGHTY-SIXTH ANNUAL/FIREWORK SPECTACLE/THE GOLDEN PAGODA/BURMA, 1852.

Painted and produced by Owen Simpson. Music specially composed and arranged by Bonelli/Dance troupe supplied & Ballets arranged by Miss Anita E. Pike, Laburnum Studio of Dancing.

... This year's display is the 86th annual one ... Costumes of the period are studied & made on the premises ... worn by 350 performers ... painting-largest open-air panorama in the world-covers acre ½ of canvas ... painted on premises each year by the Belle Vue scenic artists .... Official Programme - One Penny.

(p.2) : PROGRAMME, 1 & 2 & 3

4. THE GOLDEN PAGODA

BURMA, 1852

6. DEVICE

12. TOPICAL DEVICE: "THE BELISHA BEACON"

14. DEVICE : THE COCKFIGHT

16. CORONATION TRIBUTE ... heads of ... King and Queen amid flags of Empire ... THE WATERFALL Finale, "NOW TRY THE BOBS".

(p.3) THE GOLDEN PAGODA/BURMA, 1852.// The Story: // Framed.

DATES OF PERFORMANCES

MARCH, Saturday March 27th (Opening Season) March 29th APRIL

MAY ... Tuesday, May 11th (Coronation Eve)

Wednesday May 12th (Coronation Day) ....

JUNE Every Saturday, Wednesdays, June 9th (Opening of Ideal Home Exhibition) and 30th (School Sports)

JULY Every Monday, Wed. & Sat.

AUGUST Daily (Except Fridays)

SEPT. as JUNE

OCT. as JUNE

The Spectacle ... presented at 9.15 p.m. (Except Saturday, Sept. 11th-Railway Carnival - at 8.30 p.m.)

On Saturday, November 6th special Firework Display and ... Bonfire ... Guy Fawkes.

(p.4) LIST OF TITLES OF THE ANNUAL/FIREWORK SPECTACLE/STAGED AT/BELLE VUE GARDENS/since .... 1852

Painted by Messrs. DANSON, of London, 1852-1893

Messrs. CANEY & PERKINS, London, 1894-1896

Mr. R. CANEY of London, 1897-1911

Messrs. HASTAIN & CANEY, London, 1912-1917

Mr. CHARLES CANEY, London, 1918

Messrs. HASTAIN & CANEY, London 1919-1922

Mr. B. HASTAIN, London 1923-1934

(Mr. B. HASTAIN died November 2nd, 1933. Picture retained for 1934 in memory)

Mr. OWEN SIMPSON, Barnoldswick 1935-1936

Printers: W. PATERSON & CO. Printers, 255 Ashton Old Road, Manchester 11.

4 unnumbered pages, blue type-face.

18 & 19 : Established 1836 Open Daily from Ten a.m.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS BELLE VUE, MANCHESTER.

EXTENSIVE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION ... OPEN-AIR PANORAMA AND FIRE-WORK SPECTACLE

Boating ... Dancing.

Admission : 6d each. On Firework Days, 1/- each after Four p.m.

Special arrangements for Excursions, at reduced pates, including admission to the Gardens.

On 18 : Note on upper edge, in pencil, An advertisement sheet, 4 unnumbered pages, inner pages pink, outer pages blue.

(p.2) : ATTRACTIONS/THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

In centre, sketch of cranes ... upwards of 200 cages ... Monkey House ... 800 sq. yds ....... largest & finest in Europe ... Museum (charge 1d) ... Great War Spectacle and Firework Display .... for over half a century ... every evening in Whit Week, & Mon. Wed and Saturday afterwards, until November 5th, also Tuesdays & Thurs in August ... stage 400 ft in length ... occupies whole of island in the smaller lake. Scenery ... Open-Air Panorama ... area of ... 20,000 feet, painted by R. Caney of Drury Lane and Convent Garden Theatres, London. Several Hundred performers ...

(p.3) : AMUSEMENTS ... Large lakes ... 8 acres ... 100 row-boats winter, ice strong enough for skating ... miniature paddle steamers ... ply round Firework Island, or on Large Lake ... Steam Horses and Velocipedes, the Cinematograph, always ... up to date ... Ocean Wave ... Shooting Jungle ... BELLE VUE BAND plays from 3 p.m. daily in summer, every Mon. Wed and Sat. in winter ... SPORTS GROUNDS ... cinder cycling and running tracks of 3½ and 4 laps to the mile ... grass sprint track, 120 yds ... Ground approved by the authorities of the Amateur Athletic and Cycling Associations for championship events. Ground, cricket and football fields ... at free disposal of ... parties, arrangements can be made on ... Coming-of-Agre Festivals, Wedding Celebrations etc. for Sports, Cricket or Football Matches ... DINNERS AND TEAS ... rooms accommodate at one sitting, upwards of 2000 guests ... may be retained for evening ... private concert or ball, in case of demonstrations, for speech making. Refreshment Rooms ... Music Room and ... Tea Rooms ... shelter 30,000 to 40,000 persons .......

Messrs. JENNISON undertake, if necessary, the arrangement of special trains at cheaper fares for large parties .... Excursions ... run from ... parts of the country to the Gardens during the summer season. Engraving of ball-room.

(p.4) : In 2 halves, sketches of animals.

Printed at the Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester.

Neither of these items are dated. ?c.1914.

32.8cm x 23cm measurements approx.