North West Film Archive

The professionally recognised public home for the moving image heritage of the North West of England.

www.music-hall-society.com

Excellent site about preserving and celebrating Britain's Music Hall and Variety heritage.

Books by Philip and David Williams

Link to Ken Dodd with the Williams brothers
(Doddy wrote the Foreword to 'The Theatrical World of Arthur Twist)

www.cplee.co.uk

A musician, historian, comedy writer and performer, lecturer at the University of Salford and enthusiastic researcher of Mancunian Films ... CP Lee is a bona fide Manchester eccentric.

www.localbookshops.co.uk

A world of books - just around the corner! This is the online home for independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland.

TREVOR HOYLE

Website of the author and playwright Trevor Hoyle - and Cuthbert Club Member number 005 - a national treasure!

ON BEHALF OF THE COMMITTEE - TONY HANNAN

Cuthbert recommends this book. Within its 656 pages, Frank Randle and many other Mancunian stars are featured courtesy of the wealth of images from www.itsahotun.com's archive.

Here is the description from Amazon: From the Industrial Revolution to our own digital age - via music hall, Variety, working men's clubs, radio, cinema & television - northern-born comedians have been at the heart of British popular culture.

This witty and informative book investigates why that should be so, while also celebrating the contributions of such household favourites as George Formby, Gracie Fields, Al Read, Frank Randle, Hylda Baker, Jimmy Clitheroe, Les Dawson, Morecambe & Wise, Victoria Wood, Vic and Bob, Steve Coogan, Caroline Aherne, Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay along the way. On Behalf of the Committee is a rich reassessment of British comedy history and cliché-free confirmation that you really do have to laugh - or else you'd cry. As a last word on this book, it really is beautifully presented and lovingly written by a genuinely knowledgeable fan of Comedy and the North of England.

Whirligig

This is a great site for all you fans of 1950s TV nostalgia and more (Film, Radio, Music)

georgeformby.co.uk

Excellent website dedicated to Mancunian's first filmstar George Formby.

Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund

The Cuthbert Club support this Charity.

www.aidan.co.uk

This is Aidan O'Rourke's Photography/Projects website focusing on his photography courses in and about Manchester and other world cities. A Cuthbert Club member, Aidan kindly gave permission for us to use his photograph for JOLLYWOOD!

www.cinema-theatre.org.uk

Great site for all aspects of cinemas and theatres; the Association campaigns for the preservation and continued use of cinemas and theatres for their origiinal purpose - fine stuff!

A site devoted to British film locations and places where films were made in Great Britain from the 1920s to the 1980s - a radically refreshing enthusiasts' site.

www.lordbuckley.com

Hips you to the word of the Lord - website devoted to the American Jazz comic Richard 'Lord' Buckley

Listen to the Visitors!

Relive those great times when The Visitors took residence in Manchester c.1996

Hotun Press -

CP Lee's publishing arm.

Cornerhouse - the Manchester experience for Art, Film, Books, Food, Drink

www.thelowry.com

Premier Arts and Entertainment centre.