Dido Wickham, piccolo player

Here  is an interview from Reg Hall's collection at the British Library Sound archive.

He is interviewing Scan Tester who tells the story of how one Dido Wickham got his ivory piccolo on the way home from the pub.
Price was half a guinea.

The sound archive is an interesting place worth further exploration.
Here  is link to a bio of Reg Hall that notes his great work documenting the tradition particularly in London.

I've yet to find any recording or more info of Didos music.

The photos are of an all ivory piccolo in the Edinburgh collection.