Today is World Photography Day and we've found something special to share from our BET archives.
Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957 and in 1942 the magazine featured ' Sadler's Wells plays 'Butterfly' in Burnley', at the Victoria Opera House located next to the Burnley Empire. Both venues were joined together with acts walking between the two. Only the Empire survives today.
'There's no doubt that North Country people know what they like. They like their smoky towns, and tall chimneys, and rows of small flat houses; they like strong tea, and football, and cowheel pie; and as much as anything else they like good music and good plays. At present they're getting an extra share of these last two. The Old Vic Theatre - which is as near being a national theatre as we've ever had in this country - has found a new home in Lancashire. And the opera and ballet companies of its wartime headquarters at the Victoria Theatre, Burnley. The opera company opened its 1942 season with a performance of "Madame Butterfly." The people of Burnley take their opera straight. They don't confuse it with politics....'
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