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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… bound ever pray John Boles Watson, manager of the royal theatre at Cheltenham. Ref.110 BA1/1/522/76 (1790) To the … Watson master or manager of his majestys royal licenced theatre at Cheltenham in the county of Gloucester Sheweth … the county of Worcester aforesaid is desirous of opening a theatre at Stourbridge aforesaid for the performance of such …
A History of the County of Essex
… consisted of c. 5 a. around the vicarage house and in a lane to Church Road. 58 In 1810 and 1887 the glebe lands of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a similar establishment, are also elegantly fitted up. The theatre, a small neat building, is opened in the season; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 28 the principal character being named Worthing. E. W. Lane (1801-76), translator of the Thousand and One Nights, … ii. 197; Punch, iii. 51; cclxvi. 727; E. Stirling, Old Drury Lane (1881), i. 136; H.M. Hyde, Oscar Wilde (1975), … Pigot, Nat. Com. Dir. (1832-4), 1054. M. Odell, Old Theatre, Worthing (1938), 78. Smail, Map Story, 115-17; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… century. 21 A clay-pipe-making industry, centred on Anchor Lane, later Lyndhurst Road, from the 1820s to the 1870s had …
A History of the County of Sussex
… on both sides of Montague Street, then called Cross Lane, began at about the same time. Sumner or Summer Lodge, … of the early-19th-century town, including the Ann Street theatre, 'a very precious survival'. 52 The town's focus, the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… A children's ward was added in 1889, and an operating theatre in 1900. 51 In 1948 the hospital was transferred to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… as the Montague Hall. 98 It was also the town's main theatre until 1884, 99 and was used by many organizations … used as factories in 1977. A Wesleyan chapel in Tarring Lane, later Tarring Road, was registered for worship in 1884 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Thomas Trotter, a travelling actor-manager, started a barn theatre in High Street; five years later he replaced it with the New Theatre, later the Theatre Royal, in Ann Street. Performances were held only …