England: Over one century of the panpipes and tabor

Early to mid Victorian pandean pipes

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The majority are extracts from larger pictures and prints. Links to originals are given, where possible. If you have any more information on any of these images, or you are the copyright holder and I have not managed to get in touch with you, please do let me know.

gallery - early to mid Victorian
'Music' 1830's		1830's cartoon by Grandville	1830's cartoon by Grandville
for chimney sweeps procession 1830	for a raree show 1832	with Punch and Judy 1834	with stilt walkers 1835	at a fair 1835
a comic illustration 1836		with Jack in the Green 1830's poss	with Jack in the Green, late 1830's	with Mr Punch and Toby 1836
cartoon street band 1839		with Mr Punch 1837	part of a street band 1839	street minstrel 1838-42
1840 with Punch		unknown date with puppet booth at fair	with Punch and Judy, Russell Square, London, 1840	front cover of Punch magazine with a punch and judy show
1840		c1840 Jack-in-the-Green		with Punch, a political satire 1841
with Jack-in-the-Green, unknown date		. street entertainer, Regent St, 1842		playing for a charity ball 1844
with Jack in the Green 1845		Punch and Judy after 1845 by Smythe	with Punch and Judy 1846	street band 1848
with Jack-in-the-Green 1850		with Jack in the Green 1830-50	Punch and Judy date? by Smythe	Punch and Judy date? by Smythe
1854
1856 France		street entertainer 1858	with Punch and Judy before 1860	with puppet booth 1850-60
1860's		unknown with Punch and Judy
unknown with fantoccini		unknown	accompanying a fire-eater and an acrobat unknown	unknown’‘Minor Theatricals’
1845 Newspaper story: Lloyd's Companion to the Penny Sunday Times and Peoples' Police Gazette - Sunday 27 July 1845 1850Illustrated London News - Saturday 30 March 1850 1851 Mayhew interviewed a street acrobat: 1851 London Street Amusements: "Then the drum, what a spirit stirring sound it makes ! and the pandian pipes, stuck in a stock of faded crimson velvet, how clear and shrilly they sound !- the man's head seems as if placed on a swivel, and he hammers and blows away as if for very life. ..." The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW : 1848 - 1859) Saturday 8 February 1851 - Page 1 1857 Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (page 34) . The story is set in the 1830's at Rugby School

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