The Arthur Lloyd Timeline (original) (raw)
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1800
Theatre Royal, High Street, Dundee opens
Wiliam Calcraft, Hangman, Born
1801
Theatre Royal, Norwich Remodelled
Paddington Basin opens
1802
Tunbridge Wells Theatre Built
Theatre Royal, Preston opens
Theatre Royal, Wiliamson Square Liverpool Rebuilt
Madame Tussauds waxworks appear at the Lyceum Theatre, Wellington Street
West India Docks open
New Stock Exchange building opens in Capel Court
1803
August - Charles Jeffreys, Uncle of Horatio and George Lloyd, received his passing certificate as lieutenant, issued by the Admiralty.
Folkestone Theatre opens
Royal Circus Destroyed by Fire
Commercial Road, from Whitechapel to Limehouse, built
1804
Stables and Riding School built for the Prince Regent in Brighton, later to become the Brighton Dome.
Georgian Guildford Theatre opens
1805
Theatre Royal, Queen Street, Glasgow opens
Theatre Royal, Angel Street, Worcester opens
Second Theatre Royal, Bath opens
London Docks at Wapping open
1806
Royal Olympic Theatre, Wych Street, London opens
Argyll Music Rooms open in Little Argyll Street
Nelson buried at St Paul's Cathedral
East India Docks open
1807
9th of November - Horatio Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's Father, Born
Theatre Royal, Brighton opens
Theatre Royal, Fountain Street, Manchester opens
The Theatre, New Street, Birmingham reopens as the Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Swansea opens
Gas light first publicly demonstrated, in Pall Mall
Grand Surrey Canal basin opens
1808
Second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, opens
Kemble's New Theatre, Greenock, Scotland opens
Tottenham Court Fair, held at junction of Euston and Hampstead Roads, abolished
1809
May 10th - George Thomas Lloyd, brother of Horatio Lloyd and uncle of Arthur Lloyd, Born
Third Theatre Royal, Drury Lane destroyed by fire
Lyceum Theatre, London opens
Deptford - Croydon canal opens
1810
The Theatre Royal, Humber Street, Hull opens
Eagle Theatre, Oldham opens
Theatre Royal, Castle Street, Dundee opens
The Theatre, St Anne's Lane, South Street, Perth, Scotland opens
New Royal Mint building opens on Little Tower Hill
East India Dock Road and West India Dock Road open
1811
Theatre Royal Plymouth built
Charles Kean born
Ratcliff Highway murders
1812
Theatre Royal Drury Lane opens, the fourth on the site, and still standing today
Charles Dickens born
The Egyptian Hall opens at 170-1 Picadilly
1813
Gas light introduced in the Haymarket Theatre
Olympic Pavilion, London reopens as the Little Drury Lane Theatre
Gas lights introduced on Westminster Bridge
Archway Road opens
1814
Festival Theatre, Cambridge opens
Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Diseases (later Brompton Chest Hospital) opens on Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
Dulwich Picture Gallery, the first public art gallery in Britain, opens
1815
Second Theatre Royal, Windsor opens
End of the French Wars and defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo
Royal Bethlehem Hospital ('Bedlam') relocates to Lambeth Road (now the Imperial War Museum)
1816
Lyceum Theatre, London reopens as the English Opera House
Regent's Canal, from Paddington to Camden Lock, opens
Millbank Penitentiary opens (site now occupied by Tate Britain)
Westminster Opthalmic Hospital opens near the Strand
Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Ear opens
Universal Dispensary for Sick and Indigent Children (later Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children) opens
Vauxhall Bridge opens
1817
Waterloo Bridge opens
1818
T.C. King, father of Katty King, born
Royal Coburg Theatre (later the Old Vic) opens
The Theatre Royal, Railway Road and Ainsworth Street, Blackburn opens
Royal Opera Arcade opens, behind His Majesty's Theatre - The first Shopping Arcade in London
St James's market (between Haymarket and St James's Square) demolished
1819
December 25th - George Thomas Lloyd, brother of Horatio Lloyd, sails to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania with his uncle Charles Jeffreys
Robert Lloyd, father of Horatio Lloyd and Grandfather of Arthur Lloyd publishes his 'Treatise on Hats.'
Sans Pareil reopens as the Adelphi Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds opens
Charles Morton 'Father of the Halls' born
Piccadilly Circus constructed as part of Regent Street developments
Burlington Arcade opens
1820
December 25th - George Thomas Lloyd, brother of Horatio Lloyd, arrives in Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania with his uncle Charles Jeffreys
Third Theatre Royal, New Street, Birmingham Opens
Exteter Theatre destroyed by fire
Burford's Panorama, Strand, London opens, Later the Royal Strand Theatre
Death of George III, accession of George IV
Regent's Canal to Limehouse completed
Surrey House of Correction opened at Brixton Hill, first English prison to use the treadmill
William Marwood, Hangman, Born
1821
Theatre Royal, Dublin opens
Present Theatre Royal, Haymarket opens
New Theatre, Exeter opens
1822
St Pancras New Church on Euston Road opens, designed in Greek Revival style
1823
New Olympic Circus, Dublin opens, Later the Royal Adelphi Theatre / Queen's Theatre
The Diorama opens in Park Square East, Regent's Park
Royal Assent given for Act to Rebuild London Bridge
The Lancet first published
1824
Dock Theatre, Evenport Renamed the Devenport Theatre
Repeal of the Combination Act allows limited unions
First pile driven for foundations of London Bridge
Athenaeum Club founded
1825
The Theatre, Hastings opens
Work begins on Thames Tunnel
Grosvenor Canal (running approx from current Chelsea Bridge to current Victoria Station) opens
1826
Rebuilt Theatre Royal, Norwich opens
Cooke's New Circus, Liverpool opens, Later the Royal Court Theatre
Royalty Theatre, Wellclose Street , Whitechapel destroyed by fire
Zoological Society of London founded
Construction of Caledonian Road begins (called Chalk Road originally)
Farringdon Market opens
1827
The Rotunda, later the Britannia Music Hall, Southwark, opens
Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Road opens
Maria Marten murdered - See the Arts Theatre Here
Hammersmith Bridge opens
Marble Arch erected outside Buckingham Palace
Crockford's Club opens for gamblers
1828
Royal Brunswick Theatre, Whitechapel opens and Collapses
Burford's Panorama, Strand, London Closed, Later the Royal Strand Theatre
University College opens in Gower Street
St Katherine's Dock opens
1829
Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, destroyed by fire - Later rebuilt as the Royal Princess's Theatre
New Olympic Circus, Dublin demolished, Later the Royal Adelphi Theatre / Queen's Theatre
Royal Adelphi Theatre, Dublin opens, Later the Queen's Theatre
Lyric Theatre of Varieties, Dublin opens, Later the Tivoli Theatre
Royal Bazaar, Oxford Street, London destroyed by fire, Later the Royal Princess's Theatre
Colosseum, displaying E.T.Parris' panorama of London, opens at Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park
Metropolitan Police founded by Sir Robert Peel
Shillibeer's Omnibus service, from Paddington to Bank, begins
1830
Garrick Theatre, Whitechapel opens
First Lyceum Theatre, London destroyed by fire
J. L. Toole born
New market hall opens in Covent Garden
1831
Exeter Hall Strand, London opens, Formerly Exeter Change and Patagonian Theatre
Garrick Club founded at 35 King Street
Royal Sussex Theatre, London opens, Later the Portman Theatre / Marylebone Theatre / West London Theatre
Exeter Hall, Strand, London opens
1 Aug - King William IV and Queen Adelaide [who came to the Throne in 1830], open the new `Rennie` designed` London Bridge, and demolition begins on the Old Bridge
King's College, on the Strand, opens
Royal Beulah Spa, at Norwood, opens
Lowther Arcade (sited at current 440 Strand) opens
1832
Royal Strand Theatre, London opens
Sans Souci Theatre, London reopens
The Reform Act
Cholera epidemic
Edward Cross's menagerie relocated to site south of river (currently Penton Place) then sold to Surrey Literary, Scientific and Zoological Institution
Grounds of Cremorne House used as sports stadium
Bermondsey Leather Market built at junction of Weston Street and Leathermarket Street
Carlton Club founded
1833
Edmund Kean dies
First Factory Act passed
Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibited in former Horse Bazaar, Gray's Inn Road
London Fire Establishment, first professional bridage, formed; paid for by insurance companies
Kensal Green Cemetery opens
Hungerford Market re-opens
Riot at Coldbath Fields
1834
Present Lyceum Theatre, London opens
New Portable Theatre, Woowich opens, Later the Empire Theatre
Assembly Rooms, Hull opens, Later the New Theatre
Earle of Effingham, Whitechapel opens, Later the New Garrick Theatre / Effingham Theatre / Wonderland
Temple of Artists, Grimshaw Street Preston opens
Houses of Parliament destroyed by fire
Protests at deportation of Tolpuddle Martyrs
Royal Institute of British Architects first meets
Charing Cross Hospital built
North London Hospital (later University College Hospital) opens
Hansom cab patented
Duke of York monument in Waterloo Place unveiled
1835
St James's Theatre, London opens
Theatre Architect C. J. Phipps Born
West Kent Theatre, Woolwich opens, Later the Empire Theatre
Sailor's Home, Whitechapel opens, Constructed on the site of the former Royal Brunswick Theatre
Olympia Theatre, Shoreditch opens
Madame Tussauds waxworks establish themselves in Baker Street
1836
The Oxford Theatre, Magdalan Street, Oxford opens
New Theatre, Leicester opens, Later the Theatre Royal
Turnham's Grand Concert Hall, Edgware Road, Padington opens, Later the Metropolitan Theatre
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Newcastle Demolished, Replaced by Theatre Royal Grey Street in 1837
Deptford - Croydon Canal closes
London & Greenwich railway opens, between London Bridge and Deptford
Islington Cattle Market opens off Essex Road
University of London founded
Reform Club founded
1837
New Theatre, Leicester becomes the Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Grey Street, Newcastle opens
Hope Hall, Liverpool opens, Later the Everyman Theatre
Marylebone Theatre, London opens
National Standard Theatre, Shoreditch opens
Adelphi Theatre, Sheffield opens, Later the Alexandra Music Hall
Charles Wyndham Born
Accession of Queen Victoria
London & Birmingham Railway opens its station at Euston Square
West Norwood Cemetery opens
Hippodrome racecourse opens in Ladbroke Grove
1838
Robert Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's Brother, born
City of London Theatre, Bishopsgate, London opens
Royal Olympic Theatre, Manchester opens
Henry Irving born
The Cists present their first petition
National Gallery opens in Trafalgar Square
Great Western Railway between Paddington (off Bishop's Bridge Road) and Maidenhead, opens
London & Southampton Railway between Nine Elms, Vauxhall, and Woking, opens
1839
Arthur Lloyd born
Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, Rebuilt
First Theatre Royal, Cheltenham destroyed by fire
G.W Hunt born
Highgate Cemetery opens
London & Croydon Railway, from Corbett's Lane to Croydon, opens
Eastern Counties Railway, from Mile End to Romford, opens
Abner Doubleday credited for inventing the game of Baseball
Charles Darwin publishes his journal of research on his five year exploration aboard the Beagle
Henley Regatta contested for first time
First Grand National run
Charles Goodyear patents Vulcanised Rubber
The first self propelled bicycle is built by Scottish inventor Kirkpatrick Macmillan
First successful form of photography invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France
1840
Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street opens
Royalty Theatre, Soho opens
During the 1840s a new form of entertainment arrives from America known as the Nigger Minstrels *
A number of places compete for the honour of being the first ever of a new kind of music hall.
Rowland Hill introduces the penny post
Abney Park cemetery opens in Stoke Newington
Brompton Cemetery, on Old Brompton, Road opens
Nunhead Cemetery opens
London & Blackwall Railway, from The Minories to Brunswick Dock at Blackwall, opens
Penny Post introduced in England
British setlement of New Zealand begins
Clarinet invented in Germany by Johann Cristoph Denner
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton call the first Womens rights convention in London
Algerian leader Abd al-Qadir conducts a bitter and violent war against the French
1841
Saloon Theatre behind the Britannia Public House opens, Later the Britannia Theatre
The Royal Olympic Theatre, Lever Street, Manchester closes for conversion into a Drapery Store
Grecian Saloon, Shoredtich opens, Later the Grecian Theatre
Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London remodelled
First purpose built Theatre in Wolverhampton closes
First Theatre Royal, Huddersfield opens
Liver Theatre. Bradford opens, Later the Theatre Royal
Hippodrome racecourse in Ladbroke Grove closes
Jay's Mourning Warehouse opens at 247-9 Oxford Street
'The murders of the Rue Morgue' published by Edgar Allan Poe
First edition of Punch
Kew Gardens opens to the public
The London Library opens at 49 Pall Mall
1842
Theatre Royal Adelphi, Glasgow opens
Cooke's Circus, Manchester opens, Later the City Theatre
Fleet and Marshalsea prison abolished
Pentonville Prison opened
Charles Dickens publishes his American Notes.
Health reformer Edwin Chadwick publishes his Sanitary Report
First Tunnel under the Thames in London, and first in the world under water, opens. Built by Isambard Brunel
Children's Employment Commission Report published
First issue of the Illustrated London News
Primrose Hill opens to the public
Queen Victoria travels by train, from Windsor to Paddington
Mudie's Library founded in Red Lion Square
New York Philharmonic Orchestra founded
Stephen Collins Foster publishes first song 'Open thy lattice love'
1843
Horatio Lloyd becomes Manager of the Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Literary, Scientific and Mechanic's Institute, Reading opens, Later the Everyman Theatre
Grecian Saloon, Portsmouth opens, Later the Landport Theatre
Feb - John Mitchell's second season of French Plays performed at the St. James's Theatre
Theatre Regulations Act of 1843 passed
Glasgow Musical Association formed
Adelina Patti, the famous Opera singer, born 19th February
Nelson's column erected in Trafalgar Square
Thames Tunnel opened
News of the World first published
First Christmas cards go on sale in London, (many Christmas traditions have their origin in Victorian England)
1844
Theatre Royal Bradford opens
Theatre Royal, Fountain Street, Manchester destroyed by fire
Tom Thumb appears at the Egyptian Hall
Royal Adelphi Theatre, Dublin demolished, Later the Queen's Theatre
Queen's Theatre, Dublin opens
New Royal Exchange building opens
Association for Promoting Cleanliness Amongst the Poor founded
YMCA founded
The English Factory Act establishes a twelve hour working day for female factory workers
Samuel Morse sends first public telegram
1845
City Theatre, Glasgow, opens, Destroyed in the same year
Theatre Royal, Peter Street, Manchester opens
Rebuilt National Standard Theatre, Shoreditch opened
City Hall, Perth opens
Theatre Royal, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton opens
Albion Saloon Whitechapel opens, Later Wilton's Music hall
Cremorne Gardens open
Hungerford Suspension Bridge opens
New Oxford Street opens
Victoria Park opens
Edgar Allen Poe publishes his book 'The Raven and other poems'
Women in Sweden get equal rights of inheritance
Catastrophic famine in Ireland begins, brought about by successive failures of the staple potato crop. In British-ruled Ireland the governments of Robert Peel and, particularly, John Russell, are slow to react to the disaster.
1846
Queen's Theatre, Hull opens, Later part of the site used for the building of the Theatre Royal, Hull
Holder's Grand Concert Rooms, Birmingham opens, Later the Gaiety Theatre of Varieties
Garrick Theatre, Whitechapel destroyed by fire
Town Hall, Truro, Cornwall opens, Later the Hall for Cornwall Theatre
Royal Albion Theatre, Southport opens
Wilson's Hall or Asssembly Rooms, Falkirk opens
Endell Street constructed
American Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
Ether demonstrated as a general anesthetic in Boston Massachusettes
First Saxophone patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
Planet Neptune observed and confirmed
The Corn Laws, established to set duties on the import of grain, were repealed as the result of the Irish Famine and of the campaigns led by the Anti-Corn Law League
1847
Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden opens, Formerly the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, Later the Royal Opera House
St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre opens, Later St. Martin's Music Hall / Queen's Theatre
Mogul Saloon, Drury Lane opens, Later the New London Theatre / Gillian Lynne Theatre
William Terriss born
New House of Lords opens
Clerkenwell House of Detention opens
Liberia was established by the American colonization society to enable freed slaves in the United States to return to Africa and settle there
Charlotte Bronte publishes 'Jane Eyre'
Emily Bronte publishes 'Wuthering Heights'
1848
Delarue Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's brother, born
May - Horatio Lloyd at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle
Theatre Royal, Portugal Street, London demolished
Theatre Royal Adelphi, Glasgow destroyed by fire
Glasgow Athenaeum in the Assembly Rooms, Ingram Street, Glasgow opens
Parkgate Concert Hall, Coventry opens
Stansfield Chambers and Electric Press building, Millennium Square, Leeds opens, Later the Carriageworks Theatre Complex
W.H.Smith's first bookstall opens
Chartist demonstration on Kennington Common
Simpson's Restaurant in the Strand opens
Waterloo Station opens, replaced Nine Elms as terminus for London & South Western Railway
Queen's College, first school for higher education of women, opens in Harley Street
American engineer James Bogardus builds the firts cast iron frame buildings
Californian Gold Rush Begins
Kelvin Proposes Scale of Absolute Temperature
1849
15th Jan - Horatio Lloyd opens the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow
Elizabeth Bessie King, daughter of T. C. King, born
Charles Morton takes over the Canterbury arms
Prince's Theatre Royal, West Nile Street, Glasgow opens
Olympic Theatre, in Wych Street, London Destroyed by Fire
Queen's Theatre, Greendyke Street, Glasgow Green opens
Royal Adelphi Theatre, Wigan opens
Theatre Royal, Horsedge Street, Oldham opens
The Theatre, Church Street, Croydon opens, Later the 1868 Theatre Royal / 1897 Empire Theatre of Varieties
Second Olympic Theatre, Newcastle Street and Wych Street, London opens, Formerly the Olympic Pavilion / Olympic Theatre
Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool opens
Rosemary Branch Music Hall, Camberwell, London opens, Later The People's Palace of Varieties / Lovejoy's / Cornwall Hall
Coliseum, Westgate, Bradford opens
Theatre Royal, Bugle Street, Southampton opens
70 people trampled to death during a false fire alarm at the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow
Cholera epidemic
Coal Exchange, Lower Thames Street, opens
Great Hall at Euston Station opens
1850
Evans's Supper Rooms, Covent Garden opens
Royal Colosseum Theatre and Music Hall, Paradise Street, Liverpool opens, Later Saunder's Theatre of Varieties / City Theatre of Varieties / New Grand Theatre and Opera House / Queen's Theatre / Kelly's Theatre
St Martin's Hall, Long Acre, London Built
In America in the 1850s and 1860s straight variety grew in popular favour
Glasgow Harmonic Society instituted
London Dispensary Society established
Great Northern Railway opens its line from York Way to Peterborough
North London Line between Camden Town and Bow opens (known as the 'East and West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway' until 1853)
1851
Katty King, daughter of T. C. King, and wife of Arthur Lloyd born
The Theatre Royal, Wigan opens
Early Theatre Royal, Stockport opens
Folestone Pleasure Gardens Building first opens as an Exhibition Hall
The Theatre Royal, Railway Road and Ainsworth Street, Blackburn Altered for Music Hall
The Middlesex Music Hall, Drury Lane, London opens
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Converted for Circus use
The Sun Music Hall, Knightsbridge opens
The Great Exhibition at the Crystal palace London opens
The Theatre Royal, Howard Street, North Shields destroyed by fire
Mr Falaha, the Wooden Legged Dancer performs at the London Pavilion
John Henry Alexander dies, details here
Marble Arch relocated to Hyde Park
James Wyld's Great Globe opens in Leicester Square
Museum of Practical Geology opens in Jermyn Street
Victoria Street opens
Free Cancer Hospital (later Royal Marsden Hospital) opens in Cannon Row, Westminster
1852
July 22nd T. C. King makes his first London Stage Appearance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
The Theatre Royal, Howard Street, North Shields Rebuilt after fire of 1851 Reopens
The Canterbury Music Hall opens
The New Theatre, Worcester Street, Kidderminster opens
July 22nd J. L. Toole makes first Professional Stage Appearance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket
George Edwardes born
W. H. Murray, of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh dies
New market hall at Billingsgate
City House of Correction, Holloway, opens
New House of Commons opens
King's Cross Station opens
Duke of Wellington's funeral
Kennington Common opened as park to public
1853
The St. George's Hall, Bridge Street, Bradford opens
The Temperance Hall, Granby Street, Leicester opens
The Theatre Royal, Reading opens - Later the Everyman Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Churchgate, Bolton opens
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Converted for Circus use again
John Wilton rebuilds the Albion Saloon, Whitechapel, Later becomes Wilton's Music Hall in 1859
The Adelphi Theatre, Edinburgh destroyed by fire
Frederick Wyndham born
James Fernandez begins his acting career
North and South Western Junction Railway between Willesden and Kew opens
Islington vestry enforces painting of street signs
1854
Charles Morton Rebuilds the Canterbury Hall
Crystal Palace re-erected at Sydenham Hill
Royal Panopticon of Science and Art opens in Leicester Square, Later the Alhambra Theatre, Odeon Cinema
The Second Theatre Royal, Bedford Street, Sunderland opens
The Albert and Garrick Ampitheatre, Whitechapel opens
The St. George's Hall, Lime Street, Liverpool opens
The Theatre Royal, Hartlepool opens
Royal Standard Concert Rooms, Victoria, London opens, Later the Victoria Palace Theatre
Harry Furniss, illustrator and caricaturist born
Working Men's College established in Red Lion Square
Great Northern Hotel at King's Cross opens
Paddington Station, and Great Western Hotel open
1855
A new Music Hall opens at the Crow & Horseshoe Inn, Gold Street, Northampton, Later the Palace Theatre of Varieties
Connell's Monster Saloon, Dame Street, Dublin opens, Later Olympia Theatre
The Queen's Theatre and Opereta House, Edinburgh opens, Later the Theatre Royal
The Rose & Crown Music Hall, Crooms Hill, Greenwich opens, Later the Greenwich Theatre
The Victoria Theatre of Varieties, Bolton, Greater Manchester opens
Mechanics Institute, Burnley, Lancashire opens, Later the Mechanics Theatre
The "great stink"
Metropolitan Board of Works created
Metropolitan Cattle Market at Copenhagen Fields, Islington, laid out
First pillar box at corner of Farringdon Street and Fleet Street
Victoria Dock opens
1856
Jan 6th Arthur Lloyd joins Theatre Royal Plymouth company
Arthur tries his hand at Music Hall, at the Minerva Hall, Glasgow
Royal Panopticon of Science and Art in Leicester Square closes
Surrey Music Hall, on the site of Surrey Zoological Gardens, opens
Theatre Royal, Union Street, Aldershot opens
Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, Manchester opens
The Marylebone Music Hall, London opens
Shoreditch Empire, London opens
Prince of Wales Theatre, Broad Street, Birmingham opens as the Royal Music Hall
Surrey Music Hall opens
Winchester Music Hall opens
Evans's Supper Rooms, Covent Garden Adds new Music Hall at the Rear of the House
Landport Hall, Portsmouth converted into a Theatre, Later the Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, St Mary's Gate, Nottingham becomes the Royal Alhambra Music Hall
Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden destroyed by fire, Rebuilt as Royal Italian Opera House in 1858, Now the Royal Opera House
The New Theatre, Greenock closes
London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) in business
1857
21st Aug - Benefit for T. C. King at the Theatre Royal Dunlop Street
Weston's Music Hall, London opens
Queen's Theatre and Opereta House, Broughton Street, Edinburgh opens, Formerly the Theatre Royal / Adelphi Theatre, Later the 1865 Theatre Royal
In 1857 Music Halls began to invade London's West End
Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth constructed
Opening of the South Kensington Museum
Opening of the British Library Reading Room
1858
T.C. King and Bessie King at the Queen's Theatre Dublin
May 14th - Horatio Lloyd and his wife Benefit at the Theatre Royal Sunderland
May 29th - Horatio and Arthur at the Theatre Royal, Trades Hall Arbroath
14th June - Horatio and Arthur at the Theatre Royal Aberdeen
Third and Present Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, opens
The Britannia Theatre High Street, Hoxton opens
The Second Adelphi Theatre, London opens
The Grecian Theatre, City Road, Shoreditch opens
Theatre Royal & West End Music Hall, West Blackhall Street, Greenock opens
Gordon's New Theatre of Varieties, French Street, Southampton opens
Canterbury Hall further enlarged by the addition of a grand staircase, supper room and art gallery
St. James's Hall, London opens
Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth opens
Postal districts first introduced in central London
Great Eastern launched at Millwall
1859
Horatio Lloyd at Theatre Royal Glasgow
John Wilton rebuilds the Albion Saloon to Open it as Wilton's Music Hall
The Britannia Music Hall, Trongate, Glasgow opens
Theatre Variete, Lime Street, Liverpool opens
Victoria Music Hall, Hartlepool opens
Theatre Royal, Ramsden Street and Bull and Mouth Street, Huddersfield Rebuilt and Reopened
The Theatre Royal, Humber Street, Hull Destroyed by fire, Rebuilt in 1865
The Theatre Royal, Orange Street, Canterbury closed
Backstage at the Theatre - A contemporary article
Henry Irving appears at the Surrey Theatre
First London Pavilion enhanced with roof
National Portrait Gallery opens to public
Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association founded
Vauxhall Gardens close
1860
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
The Philharmonic Hall, London opens
The South London Music Hall, later the South London Palace, opens
The Western Concert Hall, Greenock opens
The South Of England Music Hall, Portsmouth Rebuilt
Queen's Theatre, Glasgow reopens as the Greendyke Hall
Alhambra Palace, London Converted into a Music Hall as the Alhambra Palace Music Hall
In America in the 1850s and 1860s straight variety grew in popular favour
Edmund Glover Dies
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
1861
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
The Oxford Music Hall, London opens
The Bedford Music Hall, London first opens
The Theatre Royal, Guildhall Street, Canterbury opens
The Royalty Theatre, Soho Reconstructed and Reopened as the New Royalty Theatre
The Winchester Theatre Closed and Gutted
Surrey Music Hall burns down
Winchester Music Hall Destroyed by Fire
Robert Lloyd Retires to Gravesend
Albert Chevalier, English music-hall entertainer, famous for his cockney sketches and songs born
Hungerford Suspension Bridge replaced by Charing Cross Railway Bridge
First horse-drawn tram experiments by George Francis Train
1862
George Thomas Lloyd, brother of Horatio Lloyd and Uncle of Arthur Lloyd, publishes "Thirty Three Years in Tasmania and Victoria"
Feb 27th - Odd Fellows Grand Concert Hall, New Town Hall, Greenock
March 2nd - Coliseum Belfast sometimes with his father Horatio Lloyd
April 1st & 2nd - Ayr.
April 3rd - Greenock
April 8th - New Corn Exchange, Dundee
April 13th - Paisley
April 14th - Stirling
April 15th - Dunfirmline
April 20th - Holders Grand Concert Hall, Birmingham for three months engagement
July 7th - Holder's Grand Concert Hall Birmingham
July 14th - Grainger Concert Hall Newcastle On Tyne, booked to the end of August
September 6th and every Saturday in September - The City Hall Glasgow
October 5th - The City Hall Glasgow for whole week
October 12th - London - The Sun Knightsbridge, 9pm
The Marylebone, Islington 9.50pm
The Philharmonic, Islington, 10.45pm
October 26th Philharmonic 8.15pm - Sun Knightsbridge 9.20pm - Marylebone 10.15pm
November 12th - Philharmonic 8.15, Sun 9.20, Marylebone 10.10, The Canterbury 11.10
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
December 21st and 28th - The Sun Knightsbridge
Birmingham Daily News review of Arthur Lloyd
London Pavilion Gallery added
Day's Crystal Palace Concert Hall, Birmingham opens
The Scotia Hall, Glasgow opens
The Alhambra Music Hall, Edinburgh, opens - Later the Empire Theatre / Festival Theatre
The Royal Agricultural Hall, Upper Street, Islington opens
The Claughton Music Hall, Birkenhead opens
The Prince of Wales Operetta House, Birmingham opens - Formerly the Royal Music Hall - Later The Prince of Wales Theatre
June 1862: Arthur Munby, Diary, 1862 report on Music Hall
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
1863
Arthur Lloyd writes 'Song Of Songs'
January 4th - Philharmonic, The Canterbury
January 11th - Philharmonic, The Canterbury
January 18th - Philharmonic 8.30, The Canterbury 9.40, Sat only - The Oxford 10.50
February 15th - Philharmonic, The Canterbury
March 1st - Philharmonic 8.30, The Oxford 9.16, The Canterbury 10.30
March 8th - Philharmonic, The Canterbury
March 15th - One night only - Holders Concert Hall, Birmingham
Evenings still at Philharmonic and The Canterbury
July 12 - August 23 - The Canterbury 9.30, The Oxford 10.45
September 13th - Oxford, Canterbury
October - Newcastle On Tyne
October 11th - Grainger Concert Hall Newcastle
November 1st - Grainger Concert Hall Newcastle
November 8th - In Glasgow until Jan 64
Collins' Music Hall opens
Gatti's Charing Cross Music Hall, Villiers Street opens
Royal Standard Music Hall Pimlico, Victoria opens
The Royal Artillery Recreation Rooms Woolwich opens
The Twentieth Century Theatre, Bayswater, London opens
People's Palace of Varieties, Camberwell opens - Formerly the Rosemary Branch Music Hall
Mortimer's Hall, Hoxton opens - Later the Hoxton Hall
The Oxford Music Hall Brighton opens - Later the Dolphin Theatre
The Prince of Wales Theatre, Back Salford Street, Leigh opens
The Agricultural Hall, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton opens - Later the Gaumont Palace
The London Museum Concert Hall, Birmingham opens - Later Coutts Theatre
The Wear Music Hall, Sunderland opens - Formerly the Theatre Royal
The Corn Exchange, Kilmarnock opens - Later the Palace Theatre
The Adelphi Theatre, Coatbridge opens
The St. Georges Hall Llandudno opens
The Rotunda Theatre, Liverpool opens
The Theatre Royal Bath Rebuilt and Reopened after being detroyed by Fire - This was C. J. Phipps First Commission
The Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow Damaged by Fire and Rebuilt and Reopened
Blackpool's North Pier opens as the Blackpool Pier
Construction begins on Brighton's West Pier
Metropolitan Line, first underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon
Whiteley's Department Store opens
Art's Club founded at 17 Hanover Square
1864
Arthur Lloyd in London and the provinces
January - Still in Glasgow
February - Back in London
May -The Canterbury, 9.40 The London Pavilion 8.30 Philharmonic, Islington, 10.40
June 5th - The London Pavilion 8.40 The Canterbury 9.40 Philharmonic 10.45
July - Philharmonic
August - London Pavilion, The Canterbury, Philharmonic
August 29th - Whitebait Glasgow
September - Glasgow
October 20th - One nighter in Falkirk
November - Still in Glasgow
December 19th
Strand Musick Hall opens (Later Gaiety Theatre)
Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road opens
The Carlton Theatre, Greenwich, London opens - Later the Prince of Wales Theatre
The Cambridge Music Hall, Shoreditch, London opens
The Alexandra Theatre, Bradford opens - Later the Theatre Royal
The Prince's Theatre, Manchester opens
The Theatre Royal, Argyle Street, Birkenhead opens
The Alhambra Palace Music Hall, Porter Street, Hull opens
The Assembly Rooms, Blackpool opens - Later the Prince of Wales Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Barrow in Furness opens - Later Her Majesty's Theatre
Foundation of the Wholesale Co-operative Society
Charing Cross Station opens
Naval and Military Club founded
Southwark Street opens
1865
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
The Theatre Royal, Humber Street, Hull Rebuilt and Reopened after the fire of 1859
Queen's Theatre and Opereta House, Broughton Street, Edinburgh Destroyed by fire, Later the Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Broughton Street, Edinburgh Rebuilt and Reopened
The Alexandra Theatre, Manchester opens - Later the Tivoli Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Nottingham opens (The second Theatre designed by the Theatre Architect, C. J. Phipps)
The Theatre Royal, Humber Street, Hull Rebuilt and Reopened after the fire of 1859
The Surrey Theatre, London Burns Down and is Rebuilt
Thornton's Music Hall, Leeds opens - Later the City Varieties
The Theatre Royal, Dewsbury opens
Royal Amphitheatre and Circus, Jersey opens - Later the Opera House
The Exchange Hall, King William Street, Blackburn first opened as the Cotton Exchange
Gatti's in the road, 218, Westminster Bridge Road opens
Basingstoke Corn Exchange opens - Later The Haymarket Theatre
Sam Collins Dies (See Collins Music Hall)
Robert Lloyd Dies
George Leybourne's first London success
Extension of North London Railway from Broad Street to Dalston
Charing Cross Hotel opens
Langham Hotel opens
1866
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly Unknown tour dates
16th August - Aquarium, Yarmouth
Theatre Royal, Holborn opens
Shoreditch Town Hall opens
McDonald's Music Hall, Hoxton opens - Formerly Mortimer's Hall - Later the Hoxton Hall
First Theatre Royal, Middlesbrough opens
Price's Spanish Circo, Middlesbrough opens
Ship Inn Music Hall, Middlesbrough opens
The Theatre Royal, South Shields opens
The Star Music Hall, Liverpool opens - Formerly the Star Concert Hall, Later the Playhouse Theatre
The Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool opens - Later the Alexandra Theatre / The Empire Theatre
The Cambridge Music Hall, Liverpool opens
The Constellation Music Hall, Charles Street, Liverpool opens
The Dundee Music Hall opens - Formerly The Exchange Building
The Hall by the Sea, Margate opens - Later Dreamland
The Alexandra Music Hall, Hartlepool opens
Brighton West Pier built
Will Evans Born
Sir Oswald Stoll born
Theatrical Scenery Painters Article Published
Metropolitan Fire Brigade begins
1867
Arthur Lloyd writes 'Not for Joe'
January - Weston's, London Pavilion, Philharmonic
February - London Pavilion Philharmonic, Weston's
March - London Pavilion, Weston's, South London
Also Delarue Lloyd at Whitebate (First appearance)
April 10th - Arthur in benefit for John Wilton at Wilton's
April - Weston's
April 28th - Crystal Palace 4.30pm, South London 9pm, London Pavillion 10pm, Weston's 11pm
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
July 11th Annie Adams benefit at the Metropolitan Edgware Road
August - Weston's, South London
September - Tour begins at The Theatre Royal Liverpool
September 14th - Free Trade Hall Manchester
September 16th Birmingham
September 17th - Coventry
September 18th - Stourbridge
September 19th - Stafford
September 20th - Hanley
September 21st Manchester
Following week - Wakefield, York, Scarborough, Birckenhead, Chester
Following week - Dublin Rotundo
December 9th- Still on tour Blackburn
December 10th - Bolton
December 11th - Bury
December 12th - Rochdale
December 13th - Oldham
December 14th - Oldham
December 16th - Stalybridge
December 17th - Ashton-under-Lyne
December 18th - Wigan
December 19th - Warrington
December 21st - Southport
Queen's Theatre Long Acre opens
Oxford Music Hall, Middlesbrough opens
St George's Hall opens
Star Music Hall, Bermondsey, London Opens
Royal Amphitheatre circus opens (later Holborn Empire)
Broadway Theatre, New Cross, opens
New East London Theatre Whitechapel Opens - Later Wonderland
Colston Hall, Bristol opens
Royal Victoria Music Hall, Bethnal Green Opens
The Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow Opens
Tyne Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne Opens
Milton Colosseum, Glasgow first Opens as the Prince of Wales Theatre
Prince's Theatre, Bristol first Opens as the Theatre Royal, Park Row
Prince of Wales Theatre, Rochdale Opens - Later The Theatre Royal & Opera House
The Oxford Palace of Varieties, Middlesbrough Opens
1868
Jan 7th - Music Hall, Shrewsbury
Arthur Lloyd at the Dublin Rotundo
On Wednesday February 19th 1868, out of the blue, came one of Arthur Lloyd's finest hours
May - Royal Colosseum Theatre, Glasgow
May - Whitebait, Glasgow
Summer - Arthur Lloyd at the Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow
September - Arthur Lloyd at the Assembly Rooms, Matlock.
October - City Hall, Glasgow
Otherwise - unknown touring dates
Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead opens
Royal Globe Theatre, Newcastle Street, London opens
Gaiety theatre Strand opens
Theatre Royal, Croydon opens, Later the 1897 Empire Theatre of Varieties
Royal Alfred Theatre opens, formerly the Royal Sussex Theatre, later the West London Theatre
New Ipswich Town Hall opens
The New Music Hall, Ipswich opens
The City of London Theatre Closes and Reopens as a Circus
First Alexandra Palace Completed
Theatre Royal, Jersey Opens, formerly the Royal Ampitheatre and Circus, later the Opera House
New Choral Hall, Glasgow opens, later the Gaiety Theatre
St. James's Hall and Operetta House, Liverpool opens, formerly the Teutonic Hall, later the Tivoli Theatre of Varieties
Third Her Majesty's Theatre, London opens
Gaiety Theatre, London opens, formerly the Strand Music hall
The Arcade and Assembly Rooms, Blackpool opens, later the Theatre Royal
The Theatre Royal, Croydon Opens, formerly The Theatre, later the Croydon Hippodrome
Royal Globe Theatre, London opens
New Theatre Royal, Hartlepool opens
Mechanical Institution and Literary Society, Leeds opens, later the Civic Theatre
Central Pier, Blackpool opens
The Oxford Amphitheater, Kidderminster opens
Theatre Royal, Barrow in Furness Rebuilt and Re-opened, later Her Majesty's Theatre
Whitstable Assembly Rooms Theatre opens
Robert A Briggs, inventor of the Panic Bolt, born
Oldham Hippodrome first opens as the Adelphi Music Hall
Lusby's Music Hall, London opens
The Royal Music Hall, London opens, formerly Weston's Music Hall, later the Holborn Empire
The Oxford Music Hall, London Seriously Damaged by Fire, Rebuilt and reopened in 1869
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
1869
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'.
May - Hengler's West Nile Street, Glasgow
May - Whitebait, Glasgow
21st August - Public Hall, Ipswich
Sept / October City Hall, Glasgow
December - Exeter, Taunton, Yeovil, Frome, Bath, Bristol, St. James's Theatre, Liverpool for Three Weeks from Christmas Eve.
Arthur Lloyd performs at Wilton's
Charing Cross Theatre opens
Hoxton Varieties, London first opens
Pullan's Music Hall, Brunswick Place, Bradford opens
Coliseum, Westgate, Bradford opens
Theatre Royal, Anlaby Road, Hull opens
People's Opera House, Stockport opens - Later the Theatre Royal
Royal Colosseum Theatre and Opera House, Hope Street, Cowcaddens, Glasgow Renamed Theatre Royal
Imperial Theatre, Darwall Street, Walsall opens
Alhambra Music Hall, Gold Street, Northampton opens - Later the Palace Theatre of Varieties
Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow demolished
Britannia Music Hall, Sheffield opens
Prince's Theatre, Lake Road, Landport, Portsmouth first opens as a Circus
Milton Colosseum, Cowcaddens Cross, Glasgow Rebuilt after fire
Oxford Music Hall, London Reopens after fire
Royal Oak Music Hall, Whitechapel Road, London opens - Later Wilcox's Music Hall
Queen's Theatre, Spring Gardens, Manchester demolished
South London Palace Destroyed by Fire - Rebuilt and Reopened Same Year
Theatre Royal, Park Row, Bristol terrible catastrophe occurred - Later Prince's Theatre
Sir Henry Irving performs at the Gaiety Theatre
The Seven Curses Of London written by James Greenwood about Music Hall and prostitution
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
1870
Arthur Lloyd's 'Brown The Tragedian' published
Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Rotundo, Dublin See (reviews here)
March / April - Whitebait, Glasgow
March 11th - Assembly Rooms Gravesend
Monday June 27th to Saturday July 9th - Canterbury Hall 9pm - London Pavilion 10pm - Sun Music Hall Knightsbridge 10.45
Monday 11th July - Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 9.30pm for the benefit of his father Horatio Lloyd
Tuesday 12th July to July 16th - Canterbury Hall 9pm - London Pavilion 10pm - Sun Music Hall Knightsbridge 10.45
July 28th - Collins' Music Hall for the Harry Sydney Memorial Fund
August 7th London Pavilion 10pm - Sun, Knightsbridge 10.45pm
August 7th Arthur Lloyd's new song It's naughty but it's nice Published
August - South London Palace
August 10th Farewell Benefit London Pavilion
August 15th - Annual Tour of the Provinces begins in Yarmouth
August 18th - Lynn
August 19th - Boston
August 20th - Great Grimsby
September / October - City Hall, Glasgow
Vaudeville Theatre, London opens
Opera Comique, London opens
New Chelsea Theatre, Lower George Street, Sloane Square opens, Forerunner of the Royal Court Theatre
Menier's Chocolate Factory Building, London opens, Later the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre
Belgravia Theatre, Sloane Square opens
Corinthian Bazaar opens, Forerunner of the London Palladium
Theatre Royal, Waterloo Road, Blyth opens
Royal Albert Theatre, Portsmouth opens, Later the Prince's Theatre
Queen's Theatre, Hull closes, Later part of the site used for the building of the Theatre Royal, Hull
Eastbourne Pier constructed
Royal Alexandra Theatre, Hope Street, Glasgow burns down
Death of Charles Dickens
Tramways open between Kennington and Brixton, and Whitechapel and Bow, and Blackheath and New Cross
Tower Subway opens
Beckton Gas Works built
London School Board established
Victoria Embankment opens officially
White Bear Inn, coaching inn in Piccadilly Circus, demolished
1871
Delarue Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's brother, at Hanley, Star Liverpool, Bolton, Leeds and Sunderland.
Feb 5th - at Foresters.
George Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's Uncle and author of 33 Years in Tasmania and Australia, Dies.
Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Rotundo, Dublin See (reviews here)
February 12th - Already on the 7th month of 'Two Hours Genuine Fun' tour, now playing- 13th Gravesend, 14th Canterbury, 15th Ashford, 16th Tunbridge, 17th Guildford, 18-20th Brighton Royal Pavilion, 21st - 25th Philharmonic Rooms Southhampton, 27th Yeovil, 28th Taunton
March 1st - Tiverton, 2nd Barnstable, 3-4th Exeter, 6th Truro, 7th Penzance, 8th Redruth, 9-11th Plymouth, 13th Tavistock, 14th Totnes, 15th Torquay, 16-17th Teignmouth, 18th Dawlish and Teignmouth
March 20th - Blandford, 21st Winchester, 22nd Salisbury, 23 - 25th Portsmouth, 27th Whitebait, Glasgow, for the week
Tour ends at Plymouth
April 9th - London season - Varieties Hoxton, 7.40pm - South London Palace, 9pm - London Pavilion, 10pm - Sun, Knightsbridge 10.45pm
May 21st - South London Palace, 9pm - London Pavilion, 10pm - Sun Knightsbridge, 10.45pm
June - London Pavilion, The Canterbury with brother Robert
July 2nd - London Pavilion, Sun Knightsbridge
July 31st Arthur Lloyd marries Katty King at All Saints Church in Kensington Park, London
August 18th to 23rd Two Hours Genuine Fun at the Star Music Hall, Derby
September - City Hall, Glasgow
November - Choral Hall, Glasgow
November 20/21st - Oxford, 22/23rd - Cambridge; Cleckheaton, 24/27th - Leeds
December 4th onwards - Castleford, Pontefract, Goole, Mirfield, Halifax, Bradford
December 16/18th - Bolton, 15th - Bacup, 14th - Bry, 13th - Oldham, 11/12th - Huddersfield
December 18th onwards - Bolton, Macclesfield, Congleton, Accrington, Blackburn, Manchester
December 31st - Glasgow New Choral Hall
Opera Comique, London, opens
First Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square opens
First Gilbert & Sullivan opera performed (at the Gaiety Theatre London)
'Hengler's Grand Cirque' circus opens in Argyll Street, London (Later the London Palladium)
Royal Albert Hall opens
Theatre Royal, Hull opens, formerly the site of the stage of the Queen's Theatre
Hampstead Heath Act, with Metropolitan Board of Works acquiring the land for the public, passed
Wandsworth Common, Wimbledon Common, Putney Common acquired by Metropolitan Board of Works
Shepherd's Bush Green falls into public ownership
Queen Victoria Street opens between Mansion House and Victoria Embankment
Farringdon Street opens
Chelsea Embankment begins to be built
Battersea Dog's Home opens
Diarrhoea epidemic
St Thomas's Hospital opens new buildings in Lambeth Palace Road
Albert Bridge opens
Wandsworth Bridge opens
1872
Arthur Lloyd 'Two Hours Of Fun' tour continues (8 months in all) including the Rotundo, Dublin See (reviews here)
Jan 7th onwards - Wrexham, Oswestry, Welshpool, Wellington, Stourbridge, Kidderminster
January - Choral Hall, Glasgow
February 11th until Easter - Tour continues in West Country
May 19th - Back in London - Sun knightsbridge, London Pavilion, Royal, Holborn
May 25th - June - Sun Knightsbridge, Royal Holborn, London Pavilion
August 9th - London Pavilion Benefit show
August 12th - 'Two Hours Of Fun' tour begins again in Ramsgate
August 24th, 26th, 27th - Blackpool
August 28th, 29th - Southport
August 30th, Septmber 1st - Bolton
October 12th - Edinburgh Music Hall
October - City Hall, Glasgow
First Elephant and Castle Theatre built
Max Beerbohm Tree born
Bethnal Green Museum opens
New Flower Market hall in Covent Garden (now London Transport Museum)
1873
Feb - Genuine Fun Tour Ends
Feb 3rd - Arthur Lloyd back in London again and playing every evening at the Sun, Knightsbridge, Nine o'clock. Pavilion, Haymarket, Ten o'clock. Forester's Mile-End, Eleven o'clock.
Arthur Lloyd - Temperance Hall Lancashire
Arthur Lloyd - South London Palace
August 25th, 26th, 27th - Annual Tour of 'Two Hours Genuine Fun' begins at the
August 28th, 29th - Southport
August 30th and Sep 1st - Bolton
September - City Hall, Glasgow
December - Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Trades Hall, Glasgow
December into New Year - Trades Hall, Glasgow
Alexandra Palace opens and burns down sixteen days later
Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras opens
Four Swans coaching inn, Bishopsgate, demolished
La Belle Sauvage, coaching inn, Ludgate Hill, demolished
Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly, opens
1874
Jan - Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Trades Hall, Glasgow
Feb 4th - Arthur Lloyd and Party gave an entertainment in The Exchange (Hall), Blackburn, to the delight of the audience.
May 3rd - Arthur Lloyd opens the Queen's Theatre Dublin
Arthur Lloyd's 'Jack and the Beanstalk' at the Queen's Theatre Dublin
Harry Robert Lloyd born
Frederick’s Royal Palace of Varieties opens (Late - Wilton's)
Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus London, opens
Liverpool Street Station opens
Leicester Square Gardens given to Metropolitan Board of Works for public use
London School of Medicene for Women founded
Northumberland House, Strand, demolished
1875
Arthur Lloyd - Two Hours Genuine Fun tour with his father, Horatio Lloyd
Jan 4th - Mechanic's Hall, Hull
Jan 11th - Mechanic's Hall, Hull
September / October - City Hall, Glasgow
October - Corn Exchange, Kilmarnock
November 1st - Arthur and Horatio Lloyd in Two Hours Genuine Fun at the Guildhall, Cambridge
Arthur Lloyd also still running the Queen's Theatre Dublin
Prince of Wales Theatre, Middlesbrough opens
Alexandra Palace Rebuilt
Brighton West Pier Central Bandstand added
Talbot coaching inn, Southwark, demolished
Floating Swimming Bath opens by Hungerford Bridge
Metropolitan Poultry Market opens in Smithfield
1876
Arthur Lloyd still running the Queen's Theatre Dublin
7th Oct - Arthur Lloyd and his comic company in 'Two Hours genuine Fun' at the Music Hall, Chester
22nd Oct - Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Stuart Hall, Cardiff
23rd Oct - Arthur Lloyd and Company in Merthyr, 24th, Rhymney; 25th Brecon; 26th, Neath; 27th, Carmarthen; 28th, Llanelly.
1st Nov - Arthur Lloyd and Company at the Royal Assembly Rooms Tenby, South Wales
Christmas - Arthur Lloyd and Wife at Widnes Lancashire
Charing Cross Theatre renamed The Folly
Royal Aquarium opens in Westminster
Albert Memorial unveiled
1877
Arthur Lloyd still running the Queen's Theatre Dublin
October - City Hall, Glasgow
Nov 1st - T.C. King and Katty King in Hamlet at the National Standard Theatre Shoreditch
6th and 7th December - Theatre Royal, Oxford
Wilton's Music Hall severely damaged by fire
New Billingsgate Market opens
Temple Bar demolished
1878
April 3rd - Arthur Lloyd at W B Fair's Winchester Music Hall for its Inaugural night performance
May 18th - Arthur Lloyd and Katty King at the Temperance Hall, Leicester
June 3rd - Mechanic's Hall, Hull
Arthur Lloyd - August 1st - Benifit for Miss Topsy Elliott at the South London Palace - Otherwise unknown tour dates
Elephant and Castle Theatre destroyed by fire
Henry Irving becomes Manager of the Lyceum Theatre
Queen's Theatre Long Acre closes
Cleopatra's Needle erected on the Embankment
Princess Alice steamboat disaster
Clerkenwell Road opens
Fulham football team formed
1879
Arthur Lloyd appears at the Pavilion in Fred Albert's annual benefit show
January - The Oxford
Jan - Feb - The Oxford, Forresters
Jan 12th - The Oxford
February 9th onwards - Beaumont Hall, The Oxford
Feb 23rd onwards - Beaumont Hall 8pm, Town Hall Poplar 8.45, The Oxford 10pm
March 23rd - The Royal Cambridge Music Hall, The Oxford
March 28th - Benefit at The Cambridge
March 30th - Special concerts The Cambridge 9pm, The Oxford 10pm
April 1st 2nd - Northhampton Lecture Hall
April 6th - Myddleton Hall 8pm, The Cambridge 9pm, Town Hall Shoreditch 9.30, The Oxford 10pm
April 13th - Alexander Hall Manchester
April 20th - Alexander Hall Manchester
April 21st - Gordon's Southhampton
April 28th - Begins Season at The Canterbury
April 28th to May 11th - Working The Canterbury, The London Pavilion, The Sun Knightsbridge, and The Royal Holborn June - July - London Pavilion 9pm, The Sun 9.45, Royal Holborn 10.45
July 13th - London Pavilion, The Bedford, The Royal, Holborn
July 20th to 27th - The Bedford, The Royal Hoborn
August 4th - Commences annual tour of 'Two Hours Of Genuine Fun' at The Albert Hall, Jersey
Aug 17th - Tour continues - Hastings and Herne bay
Aug 24th - Assembly Rooms Margate
Sep 1st -3rd - Scarborough
Sep 4th - Bridlington
Sep 5th - Harrogate
Sep 8th and week - Aquarium Morecambe
Sep 15th - Lancaster
Sep16th - Lytham St Annes
Sep 17 - 18th - Southport
Sep 19th - Warrington
Sep 20th - Chester
Sep 22nd - Holywell
Sep 23rd - Rhyll
Sep 24th - Llandudno
Sep 25 - 26th - Aberystwyth
Sep 27th - Holyhead and then the week at The Rotundo Dublin
Oct 6th - Drogheda
Oct 7th - Dundalk
Oct 8th - Banbridge
Oct 9th - Lurgan
Oct 10th - Portadown
Oct 13 - 14th - Londonderry
Oct 17th - Stranraer
Oct 18th - City Hall Glasgow
Oct 20 - 21st - Winter Gardens Blackpool
Oct 23rd - Kendal
Oct 27th - Sunderland
Oct 28th - Morpeth
Oct 29th - North Sheilds
Oct 30th - Durham
Oct 31st - Nov 1st - Guisboro, Barnsley, Worksop, Bradford
Nov 10th - Loughborough
Nov 11th - Ilkeston
Nov 12th - Wirksworth
Nov 13 - 15th - Derby
Nov 17th - Rugby Town Hall, Oxford, Swindon
Nov 20 - 21st - Booked by GWR at The Mechanics institute, Swindon
Nov 20 - 21st - Bath
Nov 22 - 24th - Bristol
Nov 25th - Salisbury
Nov 26th - Alton
Nov 27th - Winchester
November 29th - Back in London - Beaumont Hall, Shorditch Town Hall
December 1st - Moss's Varieties Edinburgh
Dec 8th - Britannia Music Hall Glasgow
Dec 14th - Argyll Varieties, Govan
Dec 22nd - London Pavilion, The Canterbury, Also on Bill for The Opening night at Wiltons
'The Sketch' reviews Arthur Lloyd's earlier appearances at 'The Canterbury'
Elephant and Castle Theatre rebuilt
Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, demolished
Royalty Theatre, Glasgow opens
Dickens writes on the Alhambra Theatre
Dickens writes on the Gaiety theatre
Dickens writes on the Lyceum Theatre
Wiliam Calcraft, Hangman, Dies
Dickens writes on electric light
Charles Coborn first appears in London
1880
Arthur Lloyd begins the year in London
January 4th - Town Hall Middleton, Shorditch, The Canterbury, London Pavilion
Jan 11th - Central, The Canterbury, London Pavilion
Jan 18th - Central, The Canterbury, London Pavilion
February 1st - The Canterbury, London Pavilion, Philharmonic
February 19th - Benefit for Arthur at the Philharmonic
May 17th - Princess's Palace Leeds - 'Arthur Lloyd , actor, vocalist, author, composer and his grand concert company with Miss King'
May 24th - Mechanic's Hall, Hull
June 7th - Birmingham Grand Concert Hall
December - Dan Lowrey's Music Hall, Dublin
By the 1880s, the music hall was at the height of its popularity in England
Royal Arcade, between Old Bond Street and Albemarle Street, opens
Royal Albert Dock opens
1881
Arthur Lloyd runs the Shakespeare Music hall Glasgow
January - Shorditch Theatre, New Victoria Palace, London Pavilion
February - Wilton's, New Victoria Palace, London Pavilion
March 4th - Fred Albert's Benefit with Leybourne, Vance etc.
March 18th - South London Palace benifit for George Leybourne
May 7th - London Pavilion
26th Nov Concert for Delarue Lloyd at The Queen's Theatre, Dublin
June 4th - Brighton Aquarium
July 2nd to 23rd - The Sun Knightsbridge
July 30th - Annual tour begins of the Provinces
Oct 10th to Dec 31st - Arthur Lloyd opens his Shakespeare Music Hall in Glasgow
Royal Comedy Theatre, London opens
Savoy Theatre, London opens
Leadenhall Market opens
Natural History Museum opens
Leyton Orient football team formed
1882
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly unknown tour dates
Feb 7th - Arthur Lloyd Files for Bankruptcy
April 22nd Benefit with Katty King at the Town Hall Shoreditch
Arthur Lloyd writes about meeting the hangman William Marwood
Robert Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's Brother, Dies
Royal Avenue Theatre Charing Cross opens - Later the Playhouse Theatre
Toole's Theatre, formerly Charing Cross Theatre, opens
Novelty Theatre, Holborn opens
Royal Strand Theatre opens
Royalty Theatre, Chester Opens
The Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square burns down
Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand open
Tottenham Hotspur football team formed
1883
Arthur Lloyd - Unknown tour dates
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh opens, 10th September
Small electric power station built at 57 Holborn Viaduct
Royal College of Music established
William Marwood, Hangman, Dies
1884
August Bank Holiday - Arthur Lloyd and Katty King in a tour of the provinces with 'Our Party' begining at the Theatre Royal, Croydon
11th Oct - Arthur and Company perform 'Our Party' in Perth, Scotland
Jan - T. C. King at the Theatre Royal, Coventry
24th Oct - Horatio, Arthur and Katty Benefit at Royalty Theatre Glasgow
The General Theatrical Programme February 1884 Issue
Empire Theatre Leicester Square opens
Prince's Theatre, Coventry Street, London opens (Later the Prince Of Wales Theatre)
Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square re-opens after fire destroys it in 1882
Theatre Royal, Stratford East, opens
George Leybourne dies
A de facto underground 'Circle Line' complete (Inner Circle Railway)
Cable-driven trams introduced on Highgate hill
First public ladies lavatory erected at Oxford Circus
Fabian Society form
Madame Tussaud's Waxworks move to present Marylebone Road location
National Agricultural Hall in Hammersmith Road (later Olympia)
Machine gun invented by Maxim in London
1885
Arthur Lloyd - South London Palace
Arthur Lloyd - Performs at Benefit Canterburry Music Hall
March 20th - Benefit for G. W. Moore at the St. James's Hall, London
Otherwise Unknown tour dates
New London Pavilion Music Hall opens in Piccadilly Circus
Marie Lloyd makes first appearence at the Eagle Music Hall
Will Fyffe, Scottish Character Comedian Born
Grosvenor Gallery Power Station supplies electricity to area around New Bond Street
Highbury Fields bought by the Metropolitan Board of Works and Islington for public use
Shadwell Fish Market opens
Queen's Park Rangers football team established
Millwall football team established
Steam trams now in operation
1886
May 22nd - Horatio Lloyd's Autobiography is serialised in the Glagow Weekly Herald
Arthur Lloyd begins the year in London:
Weeks of Jan 9th, 16th, 23rd - Alhambra, Gatti's, Collins, London Pavilion with Katty King
Weeks of Feb 13th, 20th - Gatti's, London Pavilion
15 Feb - Arthur Lloyd -Week at The London Pavilion
March 13th - London Pavilion, Gatti's, Hungerford
March 20th - London Pavilion, Gatti's, Hungerford
April 3rd - Hungerford, London Pavilion, Gatti's
April 10th Hungerford, London Pavilion
April 17th Hungerford, London Pavilion
May 1st - M'Farlands Aberdeen
May 8th - M'Farlands Aberdeen
May 11th Dundee with Katty King
May 24th - Moss Varieties Edinburgh
June 5th - Scarborough Aquarium 2 weeks then:
Scotia Glasgow 1 week
Folly Manchester 1 week
Pier Pavilion Hastings 1 week
Brighton Aquarium 2 weeks
Yarmouth Aquarium 2 weeks
July 12th - Folly Manchester
July 12th - Pier Pavilion Hastings with Katty King Then onto the Theatre Royal, Eastbourne
June 31st - Aquarium Brighton
Aug 16th - Aquarium Yarmouth
Aug 30th - Bridlington Victoria Hall
Sep 2nd - Westcliff saloon Whitby
Sep 6th - Wintergardens Morecambe,
Sep 20th - Prince Of Wales Greenwich
October 18th - Aquarium Scarborough with Amy Height on the Bill
Oct 30th - City Hall Glasgow
November 6th - Town Hall Shorditch
November 20th Royal, Holborn
December 11th - London Pavilion, Royal
Christmas at London Pavilion and the Washington
Britannia Music Hall, formerly Rotunda, Southwark, closes
Theatre Royal, Kilburn opens
Lord Salisbury & Randolph Churchill Secure The Support of the Music Hall Stars
National Agricultural Hall in Hammersmith Road becomes 'Olympia'
City of London buys Highgate Wood for public use
Woolwich Arsenal football team established
Putney Bridge opens
Shaftesbury Avenue built
1887
Arthur Lloyd's play Ballyvogan was performed at Newcastle-on-Tyne
May 25th - Arthur Lloyd and his wife Katty King at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East
May 30th - Arthur Lloyd and his wife Katty King at the Circus of Varieties, Bristol
June - Holder's Grand Concert Hall, Birmingham
July 9th - Scotia Music Hall Glasgow
July 25th for week - Tyne Theatre Newcastle upon Tyne with Ballyvogan
Aug 1st - Great Yarmouth Aquarium Aug 13th - Gaiety Edinburgh
Aug 22nd, 23rd - Bath Hall Moffat
Aug 24th, 25th - Oddfellows Hall Keswick
Aug 26th - Mechanics Hall Ambleside
Aug 29th - Circus of Varieties Aberdeen
Sep 5th - City Hall Perth
Sep 10th - Music Hall Burntisland, Gaiety Edinburgh
October 3rd - ballyvogan at the Opera House, Londonderry
12th Nov - City Hall Glasgow
December 31st - Panto Prince of Wales Greenwich written by Athur Lloyd
Terry's Theatre, London opens
Assembly Rooms, Ingram Street, Glasgow demolished
Glasgow Athenaeum, St. George's Place, Glasgow opens
Queen Victoria's first Jubilee
Earls Court opens at entertainments ground
Charing Cross Road opens
Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, opens after being bought by Metropolitan Board of Works
Kilburn Park opens after being acquired by the City of London
1888
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly unknown tour dates
Feb 3rd - Arthur Lloyd Benefit at the Prince of Wales, Greenwich
April 20th - Theatre Royal Jersey
July 7th - Arthur Lloyd at the Crystal Palace
Dec 1st - Arthur and his wife at the Pier Pavilion, Hastings
Wilton's Music Hall becomes a mission hall
Theatre Royal, Stockport opens
Present Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square opens
Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue opens
Lyric Music Hall, Hammersmith Built
Opera House, Workington opens
Jack the Ripper murders
1889
June 11th - Mechanic's Hall, Hull
Christmas to Feb 11th - Arthur Lloyd and Katty King at the Aquarium, Brighton
Arthur Lloyd - Otherwise Unknown tour dates
Horatio Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's father, dies
Theatre Royal, Union Street, Aldershot Destroyed by fire
The Grand Order of Water Rats Founded
Metropolitan Board of Works replaced by London County Council
Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, opens
Woolwich Ferry starts
White Hart Inn, Borough High Street, a coaching inn, demolished
1890
Arthur Lloyd is interviewed by the ERA in July whilst at the Gaiety Birmingham
Arthur begins year at Aberavon
Jan 4th - Queen's Palace, Poplar
January 11th / 18th / 25th - Prince of Wales Aberavon
Feb 1st - 8th - Prince of Wales Aberavon
February 15th - March 8th - Standard, Pimlico
March 15th - 28th - Standard, Pimlico, Trocadero
April 5th - 26th - Queen's Palace Poplar
May 3rd - 17th - Washington Hall Battersea
May 31st - Pier Pavilion, Hastings
June 7th - Alhambra Hastings
June 14th Arthur and Katty at the Trocadero
June 21st - 28th - Arthur and Katty at the Trocadero
July 14th - Arthur and Katty at the Gaiety Birmingham
July 12th - London, Arthur at the Tivoli Music Hall and Arthur and Katty at The Trocadero
August 18th - Scotia Glasgow
September 1st - Ballyvogan tour begins at Theatre Royal Coutbridge
Sep 8th - Theatre Royal Belfast
Sep 15th - Opera House Derry
Sep 22nd - Theate Royal Birkenhead
Sep 29th - Prince's Bradford
October 6th - Theatre Royal Rotherham
Oct 13th - Rotunda Liverpool
Oct 20th - Comedy Theatre Manchester
November 3rd - Sadler's Wells
November 22nd - Tour ends Theatre Royal Croydon
November 24th - Playing comedy sketches at The Oxford and Brighton
Dec 1st - Song, She Kept It All For me.
Dec 8th - Gaiety Oldham
Dec 20th - City Hall Glasgow
Dec 27th - Back in London at The Oxford, Tivoli, Trocadero
American Vaudeville becomes polular entertainment
Music hall becomes a major industry in the 1890s
Horniman Museum opens
First part of Rosebery Avenue opened
Dulwich Park, gifted by Dulwich College, opens
Vauxhall Park opens
City and South London Railway from Stockwell to William Street, first deep level tube railway
1891
February 18th - Royal Trocadero Inaugural Night
March 19th - Testimonial Matinee for Charles Morton at the Royal Alhambra Theatre
March 20th - Benefit for Arthur Lloyd at The Oxford with Katty King
May 2nd - Arthur Lloyd's wife Katty King dies
Aug - Arthur Lloyd and Company on tour wth Ballyvogan, including the Rotunda, Liverpool - St. James's Theatre, Manchester - Queen's Theatre, Dublin - Gaiety Theatre, Brighton - Theatre Royal, Birkenhead - Opera House, Londonderry - Theatre Royal, Coatbridge - Theatre Royal, Jarrow - Theatre Royal, Geenock - Pavilion, Buxton - Queen's Theatre, Keighley - Theatre Royal, Bilston - Theatre Royal, Aldershot - Theatre Royal, Dumfries.
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London rebuilt by Frank Matcham
Theatre Royal, Gordon Road, Aldershot opens
Royal English Opera House, Cambridge Circus, London opens (Later the Palace Theatre)
Waterlow Park, gifted by Sir Sydney Waterlow, opens
Steam trams discontinued
1892
Arthur Lloyd begins year in London
January 2nd - London Pavilion, Metropolitan Edgware road
January 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th - Doubling Pavilion and Metropolitan
Feb 6th for week Doubling Pavilion and Metropolitan Feb 15th Miss Annie King Lloyd and Mr. Harry King Lloyd Commence Variety Tour at the Gaiety, Oldham
Feb 22nd Prince of Wales, Leicester
Feb 22nd - 29th - Empire, Newcastle on Tyne.
March 5th - Alhambra West Hartlypool,
March 12th - Thorntons South Shields,
March 19th - Royal Variety Sunderland
March 26th - Theatre Royal Coatbridge
April 2nd - Theatre Royal Paisley
April 18th and 23rd - Alhambra Belfast
April 30th - Star Dublin
May 2nd - Dublin
May 16th - Liverpool
May 21st - Back in London - Alhambra, Hamersmith
May 18th - Washington Battersea
July 9th - July 16th - Not working.
July 23rd - Back on Tour 'Two Hours Of Fun'
August 27th - Still on Tour
Sep 17th and Sep 24th - Performing 'Her First Appearance' at the Middlesex
October 1st - Still on Tour with Two Hours Genuine Fun
November 5th - Arthur, Annie, and Harry now in London for the season, and now all living at 32 Dalforne Road, Upper Tooting.
December 10th - London - Metropolitan, doing Sketches, Standard, Pimlico, doing songs
Dec 24th - Royal Aquarium, New Victoria Palace
Daylight-loading film perfected by the newly named Eastman Kodak company
January 3rd - J. R. R. Tolkien born in Bloemfontein, South Africa
August 17th Mae West born
December 15th - U.S. industrialist and art collector, Jean Paul Getty born
Ellis Island, island in New York, N.Y. begins serving as entry port for a future 16 million immigrants to the U.S.
General Electric Company, manufacturer of electrical equipment; established by merger of Thomson-Houston Electric and Edison General Electric companies; plants and offices throughout the world
Oliver Hardy born
Alfred Lunt, famed American actor/director born
First modern skyscraper, 'The Fair Store,' designed in Chicago by William Jenney in Chicago
Coca Cola company founded
First mass produced petrol powered tractors introduced, signaling the decline of animal power in agriculture
Patent for first Deisel engine granted
1893
Arthur Lloyd - Tours America and Canada
October - T. C. King Dies
Daly's Theatre, Leicester Square opens
Mexborough Prince of Wales Theatre opens
Grand Theatre and Opera House, Hull opens
Statue of Eros errected in Piccadilly Circus
Brighton West Pier Pavilion built
Imperial Institute opens
1894
Arthur Lloyd - On Tour USA and Canada
Arthur Lloyd - Benefit at The Royal, Holborn
'Down East and Up West' written by Montagu Williams Q.C. on theatre in London
Tower Bridge opens
First Lyon's tea shop
Big wheel erected at Earl's Court
St Bride's Institute opens
1895
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly unknown tour dates
February - Empire Theatre of Varieties, Coventry
17th June - Park Palace Liverpool with Annie King-Lloyd and Harry King-Lloyd
20th September - Town Hall, Motherwell with “Two Hours Fun” 'The World Renowned Comedian, Vocalist, Author and Composer', before going to Shotts and then West Calder the following week.
December - Gatti's, Villers Street and Gatti's Westminster Bridge Road
Autumn tour of the United States and Canada
Grand Opera House, Belfast opens
Frank Matcham's Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith opens
Toole's Theatre, London closed and demolished to make way for Charing Cross hospital extension
Henry Irving attains first knighthood ever given to an actor
London School of Economics and Political Science founded
1896
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly Unknown tour dates
March 2nd - Park Palace Liverpool in sketch 'The Two Jeremiahs'
August 24th - Paddington Palace August 30th - Park Palace Liverpool
October - Arthur Lloyd's 'Ballyvogan' Company playing the Town Hall, Ayr
November - Arthur Lloyd's 'Ballyvogan' playing the Theatre Royal, Colne
Borough Theatre and Opera House, Stratford East opens
Strand Music Hall re-built and renamed the Gaiety Theatre
Hotel Cecil, the Strand, built
Motion pictures introduced into Vaudeville
National Portrait Gallery moved to present site in Trafalgar Square
1897
Arthur Lloyd- Mostly unknown tour dates
May - Arthur Lloyd and his children perform 'Our Party' Pier Pavilion, Hastings
June - Arthur Lloyd and his children perform 'Our Party' Pier Pavilion, Hastings
June 28th - Arthur Lloyd, Annie King Lloyd, and Harry Lloyd join many Stars of the Day for the Music Hall Profession's Tribute on behalf of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for Nurses Diamond Jubilee Matinee at the Tivoli Theatre, Strand
Her Majesty's Theatre, London - Fourth and Present Theatre opens
Royal County Theatre, Kingston opens
Fulham Theatre, later Grand Theatre, opens
Empire Theatre, Middlesbrough opens
Empire Theatre of Varieties, Croydon opens, Formerly the Theatre Royal
Alexandra Theatre, Stoke Newington opens
Gaiety Theatre of Varieties, Birmingham opens, Formerly Holder's Grand Concert Rooms
Frank Matcham Interviewed by the ERA
16 Dec - William Terris murdered outside the Adelphi Theatre
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Tate Gallery opens
Northern Polytechnic, Holloway Road, opens
Blackwall Tunnel opens
1898
May 23rd - Pier Pavilion, Hastings, performing 'An Amateur Detective.'
August 4th to 13th - After an Illness of six weeks Arthur toured Scotland with 'Two Hours Fun' beginning in Inverness, then Forres, Macduff, Turriff, Peterhead, and Fraserburgh.
Arthur Lloyd - Otherwise unknown tour dates
Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill Gate opens
Princess of Wale's Theatre, Kennington - Later Kennington Theatre opens
Empire Palace, Leeds opens
Waterloo and City Line opens
First escalator at Harrods
1899
Arthur Lloyd - Mostly unknown tour dates
Arthur Lloyd - Musical Comedy at the Operetta House, Town Hall, Clacton On Sea
Horatio Lloyd, Artrhur Lloyd's Father Died
Delarue Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's brother, Died
Opera Comique, London Closes
New Cross Empire opens
Holloway Empire opens
Theatre Royal, Chatham, Kent opens
Doncaster Grand Theatre opens
Terriss Theatre, later the Rotherhithe Hippodrome, opens
Empire Theatre, Woolwich opens
Camberwell Palace of Varieties opens
Brighton's Palace Pier mostly Completed
Last fishing fleet sails from Barking
First public motor bus (Kensington to Victoria)
1900
Arthur Lloyd complimentary matinee at the Royal
January 6th - City Hall Glasgow, Theatre Royal Inverness,
Jan 13th - Palace of Varieties Aberdeen
Jan 20th - London - Gatti's, Metropolitan
Jan 20th - Gatti's, Metropolitan
February 3rd - Gatti's, Metropolitan,
Feb 10th Metropolitan
Feb 24th - Empire Cardiff
March 3rd - Empire Swansea
March 10th - Empire Newport,
March 17th - Empire Nottingham,
March 31st - Empress Brixton
Sep 3rd - People's Palace Sunderland
August 4th - The Entracte states that: 'Forty Five Years in Theatre and Music Hall - A book of reminiscences, is being prepared by Arthur Lloyd.' If you know anything about this book or the whereabouts of the manuscript please Contact Me...
London Hippodrome opens 15 January
Euston Theatre of Varieties opens
Grand Opera House, Middlesbrough opens
Grand Theatre, Woolwich opens
London Hippodrome Programme for 30th July
Wallace collection displayed in current location in Manchester Square
Mount Pleasant postal sorting office opens
Passmore Edwards Museum in Stratford opens
Russell Hotel opens
Central London Railway (Central Line) opens
1901
Arthur Lloyd's 'royal' colleague Jolly John Nash dies
Feb 11th - Performs Park Palace Liverpool
Feb 18th - Paddington Palace Liverpool
April 6th - Empress, Brixton 8.45, (Sketches), Metropolitan 10.00 (Songs)
April 13th - Vacant - Address given as 45 Grand Parade, Harringay
May 11th - Arthur Lloyd becomes manager and director of the Pavilion Gorleston
Sep 28th - Gorleston Season over - Address given as 36 Blythwood Road, Crouch Hill.
Dec 7th - Park Palace Liverpool
Dec 14th - Paddington Palace Liverpool Dec 16th - Palace Theatre, Hull
Camden Theatre opens
Hackney Empire Theatre opens
Brighton's Palace Pier Completed
Death of Queen Victoria and accession of Edward VII
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (The queen mother) born on 4 August 1900, during the last few months of the reign of Queen Victoria. Daughter of Scottish aristocrats who inherited the titles of Earl and Countess of Strathmore when Elizabeth was three. Ninth of ten children.
Wigmore Hall opens
First electric trams from Shepherds Bush to Acton and Kew Bridge
1902
Arthur Lloyd recording on Zonophone?
Jan 4th - Arthur Lloyd and his Daughters play the Palace Theatre, Bristol
Jan 18th - Palace, Sunderland
27th Jan - Palace Theatre Aberdeen
Feb 3rd - Palace, Dundee
Feb 10th - Empire, Edinburgh
Feb 17th - Empire, South Sheilds
Feb 24th - Empire, Newcastle
March 10th - Empire, Bradford
March 17th - Empire, Sheffield
March 24th - Central Hall, North Sheilds
April 5th - Opera House, Cheltenham
April 12th - Arthur Lloyd's date-book was showing a few blanks
April 18th - Empress Brixton, Metropolitan
May - Managed Pavilion by the sea, Gorleston for summer season
Sep 1st - Arthur Lloyd with his daughters Lilly and Dulcie for a week at the Paddington Palace, Liverpool in the comedy sketch ' Little Charlie or the twin Sisters'
Sep 8th - Arthur Lloyd with his daughters Lilly and Dulcie for a week at the Park Palace, Liverpool in the comedy sketch ' Little Charlie or the twin Sisters'
Nov 19th - Arthur Lloyd and children perform at the Broadway Theatre, New Cross
Dec - Arthur Lloyd with his daughters Lilly and Dulcie for a week at the Park Palace, Liverpool in the comedy sketch ' Little Charlie or the twin Sisters'
Four Theatres were demolished when London's Aldwych, named after the old Wych Street, was constructed. This vast operation began in the last years of the nineteenth century and was not finally completed until after the First World War. Four theatres were demolished during the early stages of the work. The Olympic Theatre in Wych Street and the Opera Comique in the Strand were closed in 1899, the Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street shut its doors in 1902. This was followed by the closure of the Gaiety Theatre in the Strand in June of the same year.
King's Theatre, Hammersmith opens
Tunbridge Wells Opera House opens
Boar war ends as the treaty of Vereeniging is signed
Edward IIV is crowned King at Westminster Abbey
Aswan dam completed after four years of construction
1903
Arthur Lloyd begins year in London
January 24th - Balham Empire
March 9th & 14th - Park Hall Hanwell
March 14th - Palace Theatre, Bristol & People's Palace, Plymouth
March 28th - Duchess Palace Balham
April 4th -Tivoli Manchester
April 11th - Palace Sunderland
April 18th - Palace Derby
April 25th - Gaiety Oldham
May 2nd - Palace Northhampton
June - Cambridge Music Hall
June 13th - Cambridge Music Hall
August 15th - Palace Blackburn
Dec 5th:
New Gaiety Theatre opens
Chelsea Palace Theatre opens
Shepherds Bush Empire opens
Brighton West Pier Pavilion converted to a Theatre
Sir Henry Irving leaves the Lyceum
First London electric Tramway opens
Pope Leo dies at 93 years old
Orville and Wright achieve heavier than air flight in an aircraft built by themselves
United States concludes treaty paving the way for the building of the Panama canal
1904
Jan 18th - Palace Theatre, Hull
Arthur Lloyd dies in Edinburgh
London Coliseum opens
Lyceum Theatre, London rebuilt
Empire Hippodrome, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester opens
G.W Hunt dies
Charles Morton, identified with an epoch in music hall history, dies
Dame Anna Neagle Born - Real name Florence Marjorie Robertson
Japan and Russia at war
Anton Dvorak dies
New York Citty subway formally opened
1905
Dec 26th - The Arthur Lloyd Trio 'Little Charlie or the Twin Sisters' at the Palace Theatre, Hull
Royal Strand Theatre demolished to make way for Aldwych underground station
Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich rebuilt and reopened
King's Theatre, Manchester opens
Aldwych Theatre opens
Waldorf Theatre, later Strand Theatre / Novello Theatre opens
Henry Irving dies
Edward Moss becomes the first music hall impresario to be knighted
1906
Nov 19th - The Arthur Lloyd Trio 'Little Charlie or the Twin Sisters' at the Palace Theatre, Hull
Holborn Empire opens
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen opens
King's Theatre, Edinburgh opens
Hicks Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue opens
Kilburn Empire Theatre opens
East Ham Palace Theatre opens
J. L. Toole dies
1907
Arthur Lloyd Trio perform at the Crouch End Hippodrome
Arthur Lloyd Trio perform at the Regent Theatre of Varieties, Salford
Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue opens
Kingway Theatre, Holborn opens
1908
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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane narrowly escapes total destruction by fire
Hippodrome Theatre, Middlesbrough opens
Tottenham Palace Theatre opens
Kilburn Empire Theatre opens
1909
Empire Theatre, Dewsbury opens
1910
Wimbledon Theatre opens
London Palladium opens
Kingston Empire opens
Finsbury Park Empire opens
New Theatre Royal, Windsor opens
1911
April 5th - Robert George Lloyd born
April 13th - Music Hall and Theatre Review for the Arthur Lloyd Trio.
Aug 21st - The Arthur Lloyd Trio 'Little Charlie or the Twin Sisters' at the Palace Theatre, Hull
Deatils of Theatrical Railway Traffic for October 22nd 1911
Lewisham Hippodrome opens
London Opera House / Later Stoll Theatre opens
New Princes Theatre, later the Shaftesbury Theatre opens
Olympia Theatre, Glasgow opens
Victoria Palace Theatre opens
1912
Arthur Loyd's son Harry Lloyd paints the Titanic
The Titanic strikes an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday April 14th, 1912, and sinks at 2:20 a.m. Monday April 15 1912.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane Centenary
Wood Green Empire opens
Bristol Hippodrome opens
Chiswick Empire Theatre opens
First Royal Variety performance at the Palace Theatre, London,1st July
1913
Palace Theatre, Redditch opens
Aldershot Hippodrome opens
Golders Green Hippodrome opens
Crane Hall, Liverpool, later the Neptune Theatre, opens
1914
Derby Hippodrome opens
1915
October - George Edwardes dies
1916
St. Martin's Theatre, London opens
Brighton's West Pier Completed
1917
1918
1919
Adelina Patti, the famous Opera singer, died 27th September
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I am indebted to Peter Charlton for his fastidious research into most of the Arthur Lloyd 'turn' dates.