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In America in the 1850s and 1860s straight variety grew in popular favour. Florence Nightingale publishes her Notes on Nursing Mudie's Library moves to New Oxford Street Victoria Station opens Hampstead Junction Railway, from Kentish Town to Willesden, opens September 1860 to July 1861 - Frederick Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's brother, in the Company at the Theatre Royal, Manchester with Edwin Booth and Henry Irving Arthur Lloyd commences his music hall career
June - Colosseum Belfast
July 14th - Holder's Grand Concert Hall Birmingham July 21st - Hardy's Concert Hall Manchester for one month
August 4th - Belfast
August 11th - Manchester
September 15th - Hardy's Manchester
September 29th - Holder's Concert Hall Birmingham
December 2nd - Back to the Whitebait Glasgow
Oxford Music Hall opens Birmingham Adelphi Theatre Opens Albert Chevalier, English music-hall entertainer, famous for his cockney sketches and songs born Hungerford Suspension Bridge replaced by Charing Cross Railway Bridge Surrey Music Hall burns down First horse-drawn tram experiments by George Francis Train
Feb 27th - Odd Fellows Grand Concert Hall, New Town Hall, Greenock
April
1st & 2nd - Ayr.
July 7th - Holder's Grand Concert Hall Birmingham
July 14th - Grainger Concert Hall Newcastle On Tyne, booked to the end of August
October 12th - London - The Sun Knightsbridge, 9pm
October 26th Philharmonic 8.15pm - Sun Knightsbridge 9.20pm - Marylebone 10.15pm
November 16th onwards - Regularly playing Philharmonic 8.30, Marylebone 9.15, The Canterbury 10.15 December 4th - Appears at Mr. Hollands benefit at The Grecian Theatre
December 14th - Philharmonic
9pm, The Canterbury 10.20pm Birmingham Daily News review of Arthur Lloyd June 1862: Arthur Munby, Diary, 1862 report on Music Hall London Pavilion Gallery added Agricultural Hall, Islington, opens 76, Jermyn Street - Turkish Baths open Lambeth Bridge opens New Westminster Bridge opens Lyon's Inn demolished Hungerford Market demolished Peabody Trust established International Exhibition held in grounds of Royal Agricultural Society, Kensington Collins Music Hall opens
Arthur Lloyd writes 'Song Of Songs' January 4th - Philharmonic, The Canterbury
Construction begins on Brighton's West Pier Royal Standard Music Hall Pimlico, Victoria opens Metropolitan Line, first underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon Whiteley's Department Store opens Art's Club founded at 17 Hanover Square Arthur Lloyd in London and the provinces January
- Still in Glasgow May -The Canterbury, 9.40 The London Pavilion 8.30 Philharmonic, Islington, 10.40
August
- London Pavilion, The
Canterbury, Philharmonic
December 19th
Strand Musick Hall opens (Later Gaiety Theatre) Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road opens Foundation of the Wholesale Co-operative Society Charing Cross Station opens Naval and Military Club founded Southwark Street opens Arthur Lloyd - Mostly unknown tour dates April 10th - Appearing in concert with Diamond and Bryant (niggers) at the Britannia Hoxton April - Westons nightly
17th August Arthur Lloyd benefit at the London Pavilion Town Hall, Shoreditch built George Leybourne's first London success Extension of North London Railway from Broad Street to Dalston Charing Cross Hotel opens Langham Hotel opens Arthur Lloyd - Unknown tour dates First Theatre Royal, Middlesbrough Opens Price's Spanish Circo, Middlesbrough Opens Ship Inn Music Hall, Middlesbrough Opens Metropolitan Fire Brigade begins Arthur Lloyd writes 'Not for Joe' January - Weston's, London Pavilion, Philharmonic
May - Whitebait, Glasgow, Benefit at Weston's, and South London
July 12th - Harry and Katty King benefit at McDonald's Music Hall July - Weston's, South London
September - Tour begins at The Theatre Royal Liverpool
September
21st Manchester
December
9th- Still on tour Blackburn
Queen's Theatre Long Acre opens Oxford Music Hall, Middlesbrough Opens Royal Amphitheatre circus opens at Holborn (later Holborn Empire) Broadway Theatre, New Cross, opens Colston Hall, Bristol Opens Arthur Lloyd at the Dublin Rotundo Summer - Arthur Lloyd at the Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow Otherwise - unknown touring dates Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead opens. On Wednesday February 19th 1868, out of the blue, came one of Arthur Lloyd's finest hours Globe Theatre, Newcastle Street, London opens Midland Railway between Bedford and new St Pancras Station opens Last public execution outside Newgate Prison Victoria Embankment opens between Temple and Lambeth Bridge Lambeth Embankment between Lambeth and Westminster Bridges opens First traffic lights, at Bridge Street and Great George Street junction Racecourse opens at Alexandra Park, Hornsey South Kensington to Westminster District Line opens Arthur Lloyd - Mostly Unknown tour dates December - Two Hours' Genuine Fun Tour - 6th, EXETER; 7th, Taunton; 8th, Yeovil ; 9th, Frome; 10th, Bath; 11th, Bristol ; and commencing again Christmas Eve, St. James's Hall, Liverpool, for Three Weeks. 'Immense Success Everywhere'. Arthur Lloyd performs at Wilton's Charing Cross Theatre opens The Seven Curses Of London written by James Greenwood about Music Hall and prostitution Sir Henry Irving performs at the Gaiety Holborn Viaduct opens Finsbury Park opens Southwark Park opens East London Railway, between New Cross and Wapping is first under the Thames, using Thames Tunnel Columbia Market opens Royal Academy moves from Trafalgar Square to Burlington House All England Croquet Club founded 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
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