Photograph 1 is dated 5 January 1898 and may show a performance of ‘The Rivals; actors include the York solicitor and City Councillor, KET Wilkinson, Oscar Rowntree (younger son of Joseph Rowntree), and Mrs Frank Rowntree (wife of nephew of Joseph Rowntree). Photograph 2 shows a performance of what may be either KET Wilkinson’s play ‘Love Laughs at Locksmiths’, or a play called ‘The Bow Street Runners’, performed in 1903; actors identified as HC Hunt (extreme left, with pipe), Dr Kemp, Sister Blanche, Oscar Rowntree, Mrs Frank Rowntree, Miss W Rowntree, Twyman, Mrs Pierce (wife of Bedford Pierce, the Retreat Medical Superintendent), and Mrs O. Rowntree. Photograph 3 may be ‘School for Scandal’. Photograph 4 shows a scene from an unidentified play and is dated 1911-1912 on the reverse, with all the actors identified: Bertie Mayer, Sister Gladys, Dr Kemp, Mrs Frank Rowntree and Mrs Pierce. Photograph 5 is of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, performed 23 January 1913. Photograph 6 is the play ‘Henry VIII, performed 23 January 1913. Photograph 7 is ‘Alice’s Party’, performed 24 December 1915, with names of cast on reverse: Bo Peep: Nurse Brown, Boy Blue: Nurse Cleasby, Tom the Piper’s Son: Nurse Jenny Huitson, Milkmaid: Nurse Holroyd, White Rabbit: Dr Wilson, Miss Muffett: Nurse Huitson, Alice: Nurse Ellis, Jack Horner: Nurse Wilmot, Herald (Gregory): Nurse Skelding, King Cole: HC Hunt, Lady Babe: Nurse Ross, Gent: Nurse Clifford, Muffin Man: Nurse Haslam. Photographs 8 – 10 show scenes from unidentified plays. Photographs 11 – 12 show two views of a scene from another unidentified play.
