Roy Hudd - Music Hall Archive

Subject: Roy Hudd - Music Hall Archive
From: Rain Dog
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 04:27 AM

From the BBC website

University of Kent set to receive Roy Hudd archive
4 January 2020

Comedian and actor Roy Hudd hopes his collection of more than 20,000 song sheets and posters will be deposited at the University of Kent archive.

The archive, which has major collections of music hall and pantomime ephemera, was in talks with Hudd, the university confirmed.
Hudd, 83, who lives near Stowmarket, Suffolk, said Kent was "keen on the collection and has good facilities".

The collection had been due to go to Suffolk New College in Ipswich.
But Hudd said the college told him it would need to "cherry-pick" the collection as it did not have room for all of it.

"I said 'You take the whole thing or not at all' because it is a complete collection," said Hudd.

"So it will go to the University of Kent which have fantastic facilities and are able to take the whole collection."

The university already has the David Drummond Pantomime Collection, spanning four centuries of British pantomime history; a playbill collection and a collection from Max Tyler, the historian and archivist of the British Music Hall Society, of which Hudd is
president.

On music hall's appeal, he said: "The songs were terrific. They told good stories.

"The music hall songs have always appealed to me. I was brought up by a gran who always used to sing songs."

Hudd said the spirit of the music hall was still retained by comedians like Peter Kay "who is very, very funny in the way of many music hall comics".

University of Kent set to receive Roy Hudd archive

University of Kent - Special Collections & Archives

Subject: RE: Roy Hudd - Music Hall Archive
From: r.padgett
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 04:47 AM

"I said 'You take the whole thing or not at all' because it is a complete collection," said Hudd.

Quite so ~ great fellow and historical music hall collections need proper looking after, in their entirety

Ray