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Just watched a program about clog dancing on BBC4 where it referred to Dan Leno. Checked the web and found that he won the "World" clog dancing championship in Leeds in 1880 at the Princess Theatre (originally called the New Theatre) - later called the Hippodrome.Anyone know where this was?Interestingly both Chaplin and Stan Laurel were clog dancers during their music hall timehttp://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Leeds/NewTheatreLeeds.htm    

That link has a terrific image of the auditorium of the theatre in 1924.

I've found this link which I hope will help. http://www.leodis.net/discovery/discove ... _441951931

I watched the same program ,excellent.well according to this link:http://www.haunted-london.com/haunted-l ... es.htmlDan Leno is still dancing (and passing wind!) even after his death,sounds like his performances weren't too pleasant.

The Commercial on Whingate has an advert or the front of some music for Dan Leno and a song about the telegraph office

Rare recording of the man herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE3WVKUY7VAI've always been fascinated by what people found funny in the past in particular the Leeds Music Hall scene. From another thread about when Dickens visited Leeds in 1866(Which appears to have been deleted!)Fortunately I kept a record of the sourcehttp://books.google.com/books?id=TnQHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA420&dq=Leeds+charles+dickens+music+hall&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=falsePage 420Quote"Then the all pervading irrepressible comic man, with the brimless hat and the long-tailed coat, treated us to Slap-bang and Kalbozlum and Um-doodleday, and always when he failed to make an effect, knocked his hat over his eyes, and by that triumphant stroke of humour invariably brought down the house"The Chuckle Brothers are still using this technique today!

ISTR there used to be an old Dan Leno poster on the wall of The Wrens, presumably advertising a long distant performance at The Grand. Anyone else remember it?