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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rooms, built by the corporation in 1820; a commodious theatre, erected in 1806; and a theatre of arts, exhibiting views of various cities, with …
Survey of London
… 7), and until the building of Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre in 1809 was essentially the usual street of houses, … 1732 there had been a small pit-entrance to Covent Garden Theatre on the west side. A larger entrance was made a few … century columned porches had been built, but the theatre still had no faade of its own to Bow Street. The …
Survey of London
… St. Paul and is not described in this volume: the Strand Theatre is also excluded. Brydges Street filled up with its … imperfect. He was living in a house where the Duchess Theatre now stands. His complaint, made against Edward … harmed by the taverns for which it became noted, and the Theatre Royal which had an entrance from the street from …
Survey of London
… it 'a place all alive with noise and bustle, Drury Lane Theatre in sight from our front and Covent Garden from our … Street, the last adjoining the newly building Drury Lane Theatre (see Survey of London, vol. XXXV); Dr. Nicholas … Johnson and others helped him with a benefit at Drury Lane Theatre. 85 A belated success came to him, however, with his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Well-street with the new road to Leeds; and contains a theatre for the delivery of lectures, a library of 3000 …
The Environs of London
… buried January 3, 1769." A comedian belonging to the theatre royal, Covent Garden. He was a native of Ireland, in … he came to England, and made his first appearance at the theatre royal in Drury-Lane on the 24th of September, in the … period he remained in London, chiefly at Covent-Garden theatre, where he succeeded Quin in many of his characters. …
Survey of London
… 79 In 1790 Rice advertised a performance at his 'Miniature Theatre' of 'The Triumph of Fidelity, An Operatical …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… library has been recently erected on the castle-hill. A theatre, a neat and commodious edifice of stone, was erected …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the town during the summer assizes c. 1800, and by 1813 a theatre had been established in Penel Orlieu under Henry Lee. 94 Edmund Kean performed in the town in 1816. 95 The theatre, described as in Back Street in 1834, was then lit … the magistrates withdrew its licence in 1853. 96 The Bijou theatre was opened in St. Mary Street in 1912, the Palace in …