The contents of the majority of this album comprise newspaper cuttings, programmes and photographs of theatre productions. Many of the programmes are for productions performed at the Theatre Royal, Worcester; the Theatre Royal, Birmingham; and the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham from the 1880s and 1890s. There are also some London theatre programmes and programmes for amateur productions at Salters Hall, Droitwich; and by the British Empire Shakespeare Society in the early years of the 20th century. The photographs appear to relate to both indoor and outdoor amateur dramatic performances. The album also includes signatures of performers, mainly from the 1920s, at a small number of amateur productions.
The newspaper cuttings too largely relate to the theatre but there are a small number of unrelated and miscellaneous cuttings, especially at the beginning of the volume. There are a number of loose items at the rear of the volume including photographs and sketches largely relating to theatres and theatrical productions. Items in the volume have been kept in rough chronological order, although there are the occasional exceptions to this. There is an index at the front of the volume which covers the letters E-Z, the index pages for A-D are missing.
A number of well known actors and actresses of the time are listed in a number of the playbills in this volume. These include the siblings Ellen (1847-1928), Marion (1853-1930) and Fred Terry (1863-1933); Ellen's son, [Edward] Gordon Craig (1872-1966); Henry Irving (1838-1905), Charles H. Hawtree (1858-1923), George Alexander (1858-1918), Nutcombe Gould (1849-1899), Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), Lily Hanbury (1874-1908) and [William] Lewis Waller (1860-1915) amongst others. The Irish novelist Bram Stoker (1847-1912), in his role as Henry Irving's personal assistant, is listed as acting manager of the 'Nance Oldfield' production which was performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham in September 1891.