For more middle-class clientele song and supper rooms opened in the 1830s ... including Wilton's Music Hall (1853), the world's oldest surviving grand Victorian music hall. By 1875 there were 375 ...

including Wilton's Music Hall in London – the world's oldest surviving grand Victorian music hall. The story of the Bedford Music Hall in Camden, London, is typical. Struggling as audiences began to ...

One of the things that facilitated tragedies like that of the Victoria Hall and other venues is the sheer numbers of people who attended theatres and music halls in the 19th century. For a long ...