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Short article detailing the enormous success of each of Pickards cinemas: the Casino, The Panopticon, the Clydebank Gaiety and the Ibrox Picture Palace. In particular, the luxurious interior of the Casino is celebrated, being described asamong the…

Tags: casino, Christie Grant, Clydebank Gaiety, Ibrox Picture Palace, Panopticon, Pickard

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Short article detailing a humorous mix-up with the newspapers birth column. The article describes how Pickard had recently announced his 40th birthday through the column, however, afirm of patent food experts mistakenly took this as an announcement…

Tags: Birthday, Evening Times, forty, Pickard

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Short article describing the introduction of the Amusement Tax. The article posits that, according to a claim by Mr. A.E. Pickard, the first person in the UK to pay the tax was Master Hugh Brown, who, upon paying the entry fee to the American Museum…

Tags: American Museum, Amusement Tax, bioscope, Pickard, Reward

A.E.Pickard

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace

Tags: cinema, Comedian, Dancer, House, Ibrox, Ibrox Picture Palace, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Palace, Pickard, Picture, road, seamore, Singers, Vaudeville, woodside

Aeroplane for Glasgow: Mr A.E. Pickards Enterprises.

Short article describing Pickards purchase of a monoplane at auction. Pickard is described as battlingspirited competition from fellow bidders in order to emerge successful during the auction. The article also describes Pickards wish to apply for…

Tags: auction, Glasgow Green, monoplane, Pickard

Attendance of Office-Bearers at Lodge Meetings

Tags: architect, bard, bearer, bible, chaplain, deacon, director, guard, historian, Ibrox, Ibrox Picture Palace, jeweller, list, marshal, master, organist, Palace, Pickard, Picture, secretary, staff, steward, sword, treasurer, tyler, warden

BP1313b-01

Receipt for Hotel Bauer in Berlin, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard and Mr Robbin. Fee - 19, 50 marks.

Tags: Berlin, Germany, hotel, Pickard, Robbin, tourism, travel

BP1314b-01

Receipt for Hotel Royal in Hannover, Germany, issued to Mr Pickard. Fee - 13, 50 marks.

Tags: Germany, Hannover, hotel, Pickard, tourism, travel

BP20 Inside back cover Scrapbook page

Newspaper cuttings about actor W. G. Robb, Jack Johnson and A.E. Pickard and the programme of the Clydebank Gaiety Theatre.

Tags: boxing, Clydebank, Pickard, theatre, variety

Casino.

Short description of the weekly programme at Pickards Casino cinema, referencing a three-part film entitledThe Clue of the Broken Finger as thechief attraction of the picture houses entertainment that week.

Tags: casino, cinema, Clue of the Broken Finger, Pickard

East Lynne

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace

Tags: cinema, Comedian, Dancer, East, expense, Ibrox, Ibrox Picture Palace, lynne, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Palace, Pickard, Picture, Singers, Vaudeville

Electric Theatres

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

Tags: cinema, Gold, Gotten, Ibrox, Ill, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Palace, Pickard, Picture, Reward, Singers, Sioux, Vaudeville

Electric Theatres

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace Performances

Tags: Changing, cinema, Cowboy, Deliverance, Evening, Ibrox, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Of, Palace, Pickard, Picture, Silas, Singers, The, Times, Vaudeville, Warner

Firemen Injured in Alarming Glasgow Fire

Picture with a short description about the fire. Origin of fire: Gaumont Co

Tags: 140, fire, gaumont, gunpowder, messers, Pickard, Picture, trongate

Glasgow Comedians' Action

Advertisment for the Ibrox Picture Palace

Tags: archibald, cinema, Comedian, Dancer, Downie, doyle, Ibrox, jackson, liquor, lundy, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Palace, Panopticon, Pickard, Picture, Singers, slander, trongate, Vaudeville

Govan Picture Houses

Broker's licence application court

Tags: application, broker, cinema, Comedian, court, Dancer, Ibrox, licence, magistrates, Matinee, Music, Musicians, Palace, Pickard, Picture, police, Singers, Vaudeville

Hearts of Oak Society

Investment of Funds

Tags: annual, Ibrox, Ibrox Picture Palace, luther, money, motion, Palace, palmer, pass, Pickard, Picture, pounds, report, society, vote

I Sometimes Forget The Combination Pickard Tells Glasgow Court.

Article from the Evening Times describing the evidence Mr. Pickard gave in court relating to the theft of one of his personal safes, containing around £7000 and a first edition of Robert Burns. At the time of the court case Pickard was 87 years old…

Tags: court case, Evening Times, Partick, Pickard, Robert Burns, safe, theft

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