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Wilton's Music Hall, the Glossary

Wilton's Music Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Shadwell, built as a music hall and now run as a multi-arts performance space in Graces Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.^[1]

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Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Music hall venues in the United Kingdom
Shadwell
Structures formerly on the Heritage at Risk register
Theatres in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Arthur Lloyd (musician)

Arthur Lloyd (14 May 1839 – 20 July 1904) was a Scottish singer, songwriter, comedian and impresario.

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Battle of Cable Street

The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London, most notably Cable Street, on Sunday 4 October 1936.

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Broomfield House

Broomfield House is a listed building of historical interest located in Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, Enfield, London.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Cable Street

Cable Street is a road in the East End of London, England, with several historic landmarks nearby. Wilton's Music Hall and Cable Street are Shadwell.

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Champagne Charlie (song)

"Champagne Charlie" is a music hall song from the 19th century composed by Alfred Lee with lyrics by George Leybourne.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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City of London

The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.

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Darnley Mausoleum

The Darnley Mausoleum, or Cobham Mausoleum as it is often now referred to, is a Grade I Listed building, now owned by the National Trust and situated in Cobham Woods, Kent (OS grid ref: TQ694684).

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East End of London

The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. Wilton's Music Hall and east End of London are history of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain (also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation) is the power to take private property for public use.

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Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms

Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms was an entertainment venue for music and singing in the early nineteenth century, located at 43 King Street, Covent Garden, London.

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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress.

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George Leybourne

George Leybourne (17 March 1842 – 15 September 1884) was a singer and Lion comique style entertainer in British music halls during the 19th century who, for much of his career, was known by the title of one of his songs, "Champagne Charlie".

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Glee (music)

A glee is a type of English part song composed during the Late Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods (roughly the Georgian era, taken together).

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Greater London Council

The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

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Heritage at Risk Register

An annual Heritage at Risk Register is published by Historic England.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Historic site

A historic site or heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value.

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Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall is a performance arts theatre and community centre in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney. Wilton's Music Hall and Hoxton Hall are music hall venues in the United Kingdom.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.

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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English retired politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Lambeth

Lambeth is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in Greater London, England.

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London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough of London, England.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close-up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means.

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Mahogany

Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.

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Plague pit

A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried.

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Producing house

A producing house is a theatre which ‘manufactures' its own shows in-house (such as plays, musicals, opera, or dance) and perhaps does everything from honing the script, building the set, casting the actors and designing and making the costumes.

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Proscenium

A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton's_Music_Hall

Also known as Wiltons Music Hall.

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Wilton's Music Hall, the Glossary

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See also

Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Music hall venues in the United Kingdom

Shadwell

Structures formerly on the Heritage at Risk register

Theatres in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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