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City of London Theatre / Temperance Music Hall / Great Central Hall, 35 and 36, Norton Folgate, Bishopsgate

 

Plan showing location of Norton Folgate, Bishopsgate, and the Temperance Hall - Courtesy Bishopsgate Institute Reference Library.T.C. King, Arthur Lloyd's Father in Law, is known to have performed as Hamlet at the City of London Theatre, in 1860.

The City of London Theatre was built by architect Samuel Beazley and opened in 1835 with a seating capacity of 2,500

It was renamed The Royal City of London Theater in 1843

It was renamed The New City of London Theater in 1859

The Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1871

A building known as Great Central Hall existed on the site after 1874.

Right - Plan showing location of Norton Folgate, Bishopsgate, and the Temperance Hall - Courtesy Bishopsgate Institute Reference Library. All the buildings on this plan have been demolished and the site is currently, in 2004, being prepared for redevelopment. (See below)

 

Norton Folgate and site of the City of London Theatre/Temperance Hall being prepared for redevelopment. M.L. 2004

Above - Norton Folgate and site of the City of London Theatre/Temperance Hall being prepared for redevelopment - M.L. 2004
Worship Street is to the right of the picture.

 

Sketches at a Temperance Hall - The Great Central Hall, Bishopsgate - From 'The Graphic' October 18, 1879. Caption reads: 1. Upstairs: The Twopenny Seats - 2. Recitation - 3. Signing the Pledge - 4. The Bar - 5. Downstairs: A Comic Song.

Above - Sketches at a Temperance Hall - The Great Central Hall, Bishopsgate - From 'The Graphic' October 18, 1879. Caption reads: 1. Upstairs: The Twopenny Seats - 2. Recitation - 3. Signing the Pledge - 4. The Bar - 5. Downstairs: A Comic Song.

See also - Shoreditch Theatres and Halls