Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, and at the Curzon Hall in Suffolk Street a showman named Waller Jeffs has just begun his first...

Waller Jeffs, showman extraordinaire, popularised the moving image and brought the cinematograph on a large scale to the people of Birmingham through his shows at the Curzon Hall.  Working with a series of travelling exhibition companies and...