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Jane Francis

ENSA-STYLE
1940 s
Entertainer





Lancashire Belle


Oct 8, 2024
Small World
It’s a small world, so they say – and I can certainly testify to that after this past weekend. A little under a year ago, an enquiry...
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Sep 25, 2024
Let's Face The Music And Dance
Just my opinion, of course, but I don’t think re-makes work. Whether that’s on television or the film, the re-working of screen classics...
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Sep 11, 2024
A Weekend At The Museum
Anyone who has been on the 1940s scene for a good while will almost certainly agree with me that many, almost all in fact, have changed...
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Aug 21, 2024
Along the Prom, Prom...
Last Sunday evening found me back once again at Clifton Park Hotel in St Annes, performing to a sizeable audience, many of whom had...
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Aug 1, 2024
All Work & No Play...
Standing close to the edge of the cliff, peering over into the abyss below, I fleetingly wondered (as everyone does in this position) if...
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Jul 15, 2024
Those Magnificent Men
Another event, another weekend - weather-wise - very much in keeping with this rotten, horrible summer we’ve had so far. Maybe we are set...
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Jul 8, 2024
Singing In The Rain
When you sing and entertain outdoors as much as I do during what we laughingly refer to as ‘the summer months’ in this country, you learn...
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Jul 3, 2024
There'll Always Be An England
Those who know me well know that I like my football. I’m a lifelong Manchester City fan, so have seen both the good times and the bad...
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Jul 2, 2024
Surprise... Surprise
Armed Forces Day, which this year for me meant an early start (yet again) and the long haul down from Lancashire to West Sussex, to a...
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Jun 25, 2024
If You Go Down To The Woods Today...
Having enjoyed being part of Morecambe’s event, the following day, Sunday, saw us making an early start, this time bound for Catterick...
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Jun 25, 2024
Bring Me Sunshine
Variety, so they say, is the spice of life. Take the weekend just gone. Two events - one on Saturday, one on Sunday - both marking Armed...
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Jun 19, 2024
Park Life
Truth be known, I’d like to get more hotel bookings. My extensive repertoire, covering as it does every era of popular music, is ideally...
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Jun 15, 2024
Commemorating D-Day
With this year marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an event that received a good deal more media coverage than the day usually does, I...
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Jun 4, 2024
A Picnic in the Park
Before it closed down for good as a hotel, every other Wednesday evening would find me entertaining at Byng House in Southport. Our route...
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May 29, 2024
Running Out Of Steam
“Hello railroad. Is this the railroad? I want a one-way ticket down to Tennessee. I’m leaving immediately, Chattanooga here I come....
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May 13, 2024
Forging Ahead
Immediately, I decided this was the perfect setting for a 1940s event, and spent a moment taking in the various displays also setting up...
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May 2, 2024
A Fond Farewell
Audrey was an Eastender, a proper Cockney, who it seemed loved nothing better than a good old-fashioned knees-up...
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