Photographs of the WHODS

The West Hartlepool Operatic & Dramatic Society

 

Thanks to Nora Smith, (nee Atkins), sister of a firm favourite with the stage society until his death last year,   Ernie Atkins

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A performance of Gilbert & Sillivan’s HMS Pinafore  1945 Featuring Members Joan Eskdale and Lillian Brackstone

With Musical Director Bill Walmsley

A founder member of the Hartlepool Gilbert & Sullivan Society

Alan Dinsdale &                            Derek Howells                    Lillan Brackstone

Lillian Brackstone                       Lillian Brackstone                    Joan Eskdale

Merrie England                             Bob Douglas                       Jean Charlton

    June 1947                               Merrie England                  Merrie England

Litzi (Linda Filby) & Fritzi (Shirley Bell)

and their bridegrooms played by

Paul Bianco & Ernie Atkins

Lilac Time 1975

Bill Sykes (Alan Dale)            left to right

One of the orphans            Marquis Harrison

     Oliver 2000                    Brian Parsons

                                            Ernie Atkins

                                           Alan Kennedy

                                          Oklahoma 1993

           Marilyn Armstrong      Ernie Atkins

                Mike Munns        Elsie Casson

                  Angela Gowing (nee Lakey)

The Black & White Minstrels Concert  December 1990

In aid of the local Hospice

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