Hiya Cath.....if you google Daily Sketch Archives you will find a website....allan:Wink:
Allan ......... researching oakes/anyon/standish/collins/hartley/barker/collins-cheshire
oakes/tipping/ellis/jones/schacht/...garston, liverpool
adams-shropshire/roberts-welshpool
merrick/lewis/stringham/nicolls-herefordshire
coxon/williamson/kay/weaver-glossop/stockport/walker-gorton
I've just read an article from the Bolton Evening news archive about a musician/composer by the name of Andrew Norrie Allen which mentions a Daily Sketch story in 1934 about Florrie Forde (music hall artiste)
In 1934, the Daily Sketch carried a story about the day Florrie Forde sat Andrew down at a piano in Blackpool in the hope that it would help to revive him.
But he "sat there, sunk into himself, sweeping a hand over the keys meaninglessly."
Florrie Forde was quoted as saying: "It is a real tragedy and it makes one's heart ache."
I would love to read the whole article if I can find it.
Andrew Norrie Allen appears to have been my father's cousin. The Bolton Evening News article seems to contain a few "family legends" but if I can see the Sketches story it should be more factual.
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