Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
There was Reynolds Waxworks in Lime Street (see my piece in "Some Liverpool Cinemas") and they also exhibited freaks.
The Tivoli in Lime Street (the site of the Palais de Luxe) was a waxworks even before Reynolds, and later (1890s?) it is known that "The Elephant Man" appeared there.

The Museum of Anatomy in Paradise Street was only a few doors away from the Queen's Theatre, later Kelly's Theatre, but it wasn't anything like a music hall or theatre, because I've seen the Licensing Records for such places and it doesn't appear.

It sounds like it was a serious sort of place - as I said, probably for medical students.

Yes okay, Philip, you might be right. In regard to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, as I say, he was saved from the sideshow circuit in 1884 and lived from then on at the London Hospital. He died there in his sleep in April 11, 1890. If he was exhibited in Liverpool it must have been possibly in the early 1880's.



Chris