John Balmbra (born c. 1811) was the owner, proprietor, manager and licensee of Balmbra's Music Hall in Newcastle, England, to which he gave his name. John
Balmbra's Music Hall was an early Music Hall in the centre of Newcastle, England, in the middle of the 19th century. In about 1848 a first floor room
Geordie dialect words The hall at the Wheat Sheaf was called Balmbra's, after its owner, John Balmbra, and may have been the best known music hall outside London
Brewis - poet, writer, cartoonist, illustrator Bill Griffiths (poet) John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall Sir David Brewster - subject
Shields Garland", the writer is John Stobbs F-G1 – according to Fordyce's Tyne Songster of 1840, the writer is John Gibson F-O1 – according to Fordyce's
This was popular. He moved on to the Wheat-sheaf Music Hall (previously Balmbra's Music Hall, later renamed the Oxford) where he first performed his song
performed his song at a testimonial concert for local oarsman John H. Clasper, held in Balmbra's Music Hall on 5 June 1862. The final verse was added for a
Blaydon Races, a popular musical hall song first sung by Geordie Ridley at Balmbra's Music Hall in Newcastle in 1862, gives an idea of some of the characters
Shoe-tie John Spencer John Stephenson Jacky Tate Whin Bob - an alias of and see Robert Cruddace John Wilson -better known as Cuckoo Jack Balmbras’ Music
opened in London. 5 June – "Geordie" Ridley first sings "Blaydon Races" at Balmbra's Music Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. 30 June – 'Revised Code', introducing