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Home > Art, Film & Photography > Former Buildings and Structures of Lambeth: Canterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Thcanterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Theatre, Royal Surrey Gardens,
Former Buildings and Structures of Lambeth: Canterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Thcanterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Theatre, Royal Surrey Gardens,

Former Buildings and Structures of Lambeth: Canterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Thcanterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Theatre, Royal Surrey Gardens,


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Chapters: Canterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Theatre, Royal Surrey Gardens, Skylon, Dome of Discovery, Cardboard City. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Canterbury Music Hall - Morton and Frederick Stanley, his brother in law, purchased the Canterbury Arms, in Upper Marsh, Lambeth, in 1849. Morton was experienced in presenting 'Gentlemen Only' entertainments in his other pubs, and he had been impressed with the entertainments at Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms in Covent Garden and decided to offer a harmonic meeting, held on Saturdays, in the back room of the public house. He brought in smart tables, with candlesticks, allowing audiences to sit and eat comfortably while watching concerts known as 'Sing-Songs' or 'Free and Easys' on Mondays and Saturdays. Soon, a Thursday evening programme was added to accommodate the crowds. Morton encouraged women to attend the entertainments, giving the venue wider appeal than the old time song and supper rooms, which were male preserves. Entry was free, but the profits from the sale of food and drink allowed the construction of a larger hall on the site of the former skittle alley, at the back of the public house. This 700 seat hall took a year to build and opened as the Canterbury Hall on 17 May 1852, described as "the most significant date in all the history of music hall." The hall charged a modest admission and looked like most contemporary concert rooms within public houses of the period. It specialised in programmes of light music and ballads. Professional performers could earn high fees, and this attracted performances of selections from opera, including the first performances of Jacques Offenbach's music in England. The venture was profitable, and a new theatre was built in 1856, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1613251


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157064602
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157064604
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Canterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Thcanterbury Music Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Surrey Theatre, Royal Surrey Gardens,
  • Width: 229 mm


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