Postcard showing photographic portrait of Dan Leno. From the Patrick Loobey Collection, Wandsworth Libraries & Heritage Service

The Music Hall Artistes of Lambeth Cemetery

Name: The Music Hall Artistes of Lambeth Cemetery
Start: 2025-06-27T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-27T20:45:00+01:00

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Fri 27 Jun 2025

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Organised by the Tooting History Group and the Friends of Streatham Cemetery

How did over 250 music hall artistes and entertainers come to be buried in Tooting? What was life like as a music hall artiste in Victorian and Edwardian times? What songs did they sing? What acts did they perform? Join Karen Ellis-Rees of London Overlooked/Tooting History Group and Peter Winbourne for an evening of stories and song about the once shining music hall stars how now rest in Lambeth and Streatham Cemeteries. Booking required. Doors open at 7pm.