Tag: Marie Lloyd

• Mr Marie Lloyd

  

  In last week’s post you lucky readers were treated to a cockney singalong about an exhibition of strength that cemented the reputation of the first proper celebrity bodybuilder. This week we take a look at a man who sung the song and, for decades, has been nothing more than an aside compared to his far […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 4, 2017

  Biography, History, London, Music, Performance

  BFI IMAX, Costermonger, East End, Husband, Marie Lloyd, Music Hall, Poverty, Song, Theatre, Wife

• The Strongest Man on Earth

  

  An old song drifts through Tower Hamlets Cemetery in October 2017. History is full of old tunes and for our Halloween tour, myself and Pauly Kendrick sang Alec Hurley’s hit ‘The Strongest Man on Earth’ at his graveside. You know the song, don’t you? It was the song everyone was humming in November 1889. But why […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  November 27, 2017

  History, London, Performance, Sport, Tours

  Aquarium, Entertainment, Event, Marie Lloyd, Music Hall, Song, Spectacle, Strongman, victorian, Westminster, WWE

• A Touch of Class In Hampstead Cemetery

  

  After a short walk from West Hampstead tube and cutting through Fortune Green, my first experience of this garden of the dead was through a narrow alleyway, I was then presented with a choice: left or right. The alleyway splits the cemetery in two, so I had to choose carefully… Hampstead Cemetery has always been […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  July 13, 2015

  Angel, Heritage, History, LGBTQ, London, Music, Photography, Visits, Women

  Camden, Cemetery, Fortune Green, Fred terry, Garden, Hampstead, Marie Lloyd, North London, poetry, Queer, Suicide