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The Mikado 1922 |
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I recently received this letter from Sheelagh Wilson, Weybridge Surrey |
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| Frederick King | Wilfred King | Frederick King |
| The enclosed photographs belonged to my father, Frederick King. A note left with them is as follows: |
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THE MIKADO |
| First of any performance in the local cinema. Presented by the new Henley-on-Thames Operatic Society in about February 1922. |
| The five shows were crowded to the full and scores of people had to be turned away, if they had no tickets, on the Saturday night |
| In the following years, the Society staged THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE and THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. |
| My father was born in 1903 and would have been 18 in early 1922. He moved to Henley when he was about 11 and lived with his parents and brother at Bird Place Cottage by the bridge. His father owned a dairy at 16 Hart Street. They were apparently the first people in the town to own a car, apart from the Doctor. My father and his brother attended the Grammar School and sang in the Church choir. They were close friends of the Hobbs family and my father was a keen sculler. They moved back to London in the mid 1920s. |
| CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOGRAPHS THE MIKADO |
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