Next to Mom’s piano in the lounge was a glass-fronted darkwood cabinet. In it was her collection of sheet music – classic and light popular. The overflow was in her piano stool; the padded tapestry lid was hinged and opened up to reveal more sheet music.
Here’s some of her light music collection

Sheet Music
Show Me The Way To Go Home; Music sheet for Show Me The Way To Go Home by Irving King, published by Campbell Connelly, 1925
Irving King
Campbell, Connelly & Co.
London
1925; 1921
Lithograph, intermediate pages composed of printed text














And a list she made as an ‘aide memoir’

Here she is playing at Azalea in Pietermaritzburg. Note how she deftly ducks answering my excellent suggestion:
Matron Rose ended the session with, ‘Mary Poppins, come and eat.’
~~oo0oo~~

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