Hello everyone This is my first time on the list and I have relations who were intimately related to the Palace Theatre in Oldham. My grandmother was a dresser for George Elliot and (I'm told) Marie LLoyd. My grandfather (Frederick William Millward), father (James Millward) and uncle (George Millward) were limelight operators at the Palace for a time. In the 1881 census my great grandfather James Millword (should have been Millward) was described as a dramatic agent and was a boarder at 2&4 Rodney Street in Wigan. With him were Harry Douthwaite aged 39, an actor from America, Thomas Dilverd and actor from Tanzania and John Thompson, an actor whose birthplace was omitted. I do hope that some of the names mentioned will ring a bell with someone who can give me further information about the Palace or the people mentioned. Yours in hope Brian Millward Birmingham England