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The Mystery Of The Smoking Concert

Here are some pictures of a programme (price sixpence) for a Grand Smoking Concert given by Denham Cricket Club on the 10th November 1893.

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It was a formidable programme with 33 turns (not all by different people): songs; comic acts; cornet, banjo andpianoforte solos; even fairey bells. A 'Mr Livingstone' (no first name or initials, which either meant that he was so well known that he didn't need them, or maybe no one had ever heard of him before) ended both the first and second halves of the Concert with his comic act.

There is a Jolly Gardeners in Putney, in Lacy Road, just off Putney High Street.

Questions we have to ask:

• It's out of season (November), so it could have been a fund raiser, but why was it held in Putney?
• Is the London Putney the only one, or is there a 'Putney' village or hamlet somewhere nearer?
• Could there be another 'Denham Cricket Club' (like the wild and wonderful names of pop groups in the sixties)
• Cooper's Arms Lane does not appear in modern London A-Zs; it might have been demolished. But is this the street now called Lacy Road?

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