In their earliest years, costumed by their mother (Matilda Mary Caroline), they performed as The Fairy Bells Minstrels, singing temperance songs in local missions and church halls.

[2] The children were entranced by music hall, their father (John, an artificial florist) working in the evenings at the nearby Royal Eagle Tavern.

Daisy made her own first professional appearance in a play entitled My Willie at the South London Palace, on 17 March 1890.

She continued to tour throughout the British Isles and internationally, until she finally retired in 1928, but occasionally returned to the stage with her sisters Alice and Rosie during the 1930s and World War II.

[3] An article from 2002 by Sydney Higgins, formerly of Camerino University Italy, is now posted on the website of Daisy Wood's grandson at www.munro-tain.com under the category Related Files