Matlock:
Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menus, 1926 & 1927 |
Matlock: Twentieth Century Photographs,
Postcards, Engravings & Etchings |
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Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menu Front Cover, 1926.
A photograph of the Hydro is incorporated into the design.
The inter-war programmes were tied with coloured ribbons and guests
would often autograph them.
In this instance Harry Douglas, the Manager, did so.
The original outer cover is slightly longer than the one shown
here.
Smedley's Christmas Banquet Menu,1926.
Inside the outer cover was a folded programme with
a title page (shown in upper image, right),
a programme of the music (shown in lower image, left),
the menu (shown in lower image, right),
and a list of the Christmas festivities (shown in upper image,
left).
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Christmas Dinner Menu, 1927.
Saturday, December 24th 1927.
The designs changed each year and this one has the logo SHC on
it - Smedley's Hydropathic Company.
Inside.
1927 Programme of music and the guests' menu. |
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On the back:
An etching of the Hydro.
Programme of Christmas Festivities, 1927
Front cover |
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List of events |
Note that there was dancing every evening, although not on Sundays.
Presumably this was a correction to the previous year's programme.
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Smedley menus for 1926 and 1927, programmes and covers © Jane
Leslie from her personal collection.
1927 festivities programme © Ann Andrews collection. Added 2019.
Researched, written by and © Ann Andrews.
Intended for personal use only.
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