Welcome to the website of
Tony Lidington & Promenade Promotions (Prom-Prom) Limited
“The art of British popular entertainment”
This website is for booking Prom-Prom’s accessible, family-friendly acts for 2024/5… it is also a treasure-trove of vernacular entertainments, containing Dr Tony Lidington’s research outputs, publications and archives on British popular performance forms.
Tony Lidington
“… some sort of unreconstructed music hall anarchist”
– John Fox, Welfare State International & Dead Good Guides
“A national treasure…”
– the late Duke of Edinburgh
This website is for booking Prom-Prom’s accessible, family-friendly acts for 2024/5… it is also a treasure-trove of vernacular entertainments, containing Dr Tony Lidington’s research outputs, publications and archives on British popular performance forms.
Tony Lidington
“… some sort of unreconstructed music hall anarchist”
– John Fox, Welfare State International & Dead Good Guides
“A national treasure…”
– the late Duke of Edinburgh
“Come and see the wonders of all wonders that ever the world has wondered at!” – Gustavus Katterfelto
– Wise words –
“One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it” – Peter Cook
“We don’t have a plan, so nothing can go wrong” – Spike Milligan
“This too shall pass…” from Hebrew and Sufi folklore
Latest Socials and Posts
Our brilliant trainees have spent the last week with Luke from Wandering Tiger recording all the wonderful memories from the Dawlish residents that we have worked with over the past few months. ![]()
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The finished audio program will be premiered at our celebratory event At The Hop! on the 25th Jan at The Strand Centre in Dawlish from 3pm - 6pm. ![]()
It's FREE! Come and join us for milkshakes, cakes and of course...DANCING!![]()
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After that it will serve as an archive and educational resource for local schools, museums and libraries.![]()
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Daisi Love DawlishTeignbridge District Council Discover Dawlish & Dawlish Warren![]()
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#UKSPF
Not long to go, so get your dancing shoes on! 👠👠 🥾🥾 🩰🤩
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'At the Hop!' launch: The Strand Centre, Dawlish, on Saturday January 25th 2025 3-6PM. ![]()
This is a FREE community celebration for all the family about dancing in the 1950/60s.![]()
Local young artists have recorded the memories elderly Dawlish residents to create a 30-minute audio programme. ![]()
The event will feature live local band – ‘Ruby & the Rascals’ playing covers from 50s/60s, plus DJ Phil Winters spinning vinyl tracks from the era. There will be dancing, a dress-up rail, plus milkshakes, tea and cakes!![]()
Doors open at 3PM & the audio recording will be launched at 4PM (it will then be made available as an MP4 to all the participants, local schools, museums & libraries as a learning resource).![]()
The project aims are to develop pride in place, encourage social cohesion & intergenerational relationships, improve employment opportunities for young people and provide a celebration of the town in which we live.![]()
Come and join-in the fun!![]()
This project is funded by the UK government as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, through Teignbridge Arts Projects.
Happy New year one and all! ![]()
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See you in 2025 for more Quayside fun in Exeter and our At The Hop! special event in Dawlish in January plus more things to be announced in the coming weeks!Twelve Days of Exe-Mas![]()
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We are looking back at some of our 2024 highlights around the Exeter Quay and looking forward to 2025. ![]()
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Summer at the Quayside sees us organise free family events throughout the school summer holidays. Every Friday, Uncle Tacko and the Promenade Promotions team also bring a bit of old-fashioned end of the pier fun to the Transit Shed. The colourful programme includes storytelling, puppets, magic, games and even a flea circus. ![]()
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The team will be back in 2025 for more free Friday fun.
Join us for a mince pie, a mulled wine and some cosy Yuletide storytelling! ![]()
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‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens![]()
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Adapted and read by Tony Lidington![]()
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21st Dec, 6.30pm at Alice cross Centre at St James Church, Teignmouth ![]()
Free entry - book your place @alicecrosscentre ![]()
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23rd Dec, 6pm at The Strand Centre, Dawlish![]()
Entry by donation to The Strands support fund.![]()
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@lovedawlish @discoverteignmouthanddawlish
My latest publication arrived today - it is a chapter in 'Researching Popular Entertainment', edited By Kim Baston & Jason Price, which is part of the Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. ![]()
Chapter 12: “Pierrots on the Prom” - ‘re-enactment, revival and in-heritage transfer in seaside performance’ by Dr Tony Lidington![]()
Here's a link to the site: www.routledge.com/Researching-Popular-Entertainment/Baston-Price/p/book/9781032566436?srsltid=Afm...![]()
Learn all about embodied research practice... I believe it fits very neatly into most Christmas stockings!![]()
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