Articles with the tag: Entertainment

Blondin: A High time in the Pump Room Gardens

Blondin: A High time in the Pump Room Gardens

Mar 6, 2014 | People, Places

  The fashionable town of Leamington Spa attracted a host of big-name performers from all branches of the Victorian entertainment industry. One of those who came here was the world renowned tightrope walker Charles Blondin. Exactly 150 years ago the great Blondin...
The Theatre Royal

The Theatre Royal

Apr 29, 2013 | Places

The Leamington Theatre Company was formed in 1881 and it commissioned London architect C J Phipps to design a 1,200 seat theatre for its site adjoining Denby Buildings in Regent Grove. Charles John Phipps was the foremost theatre architect of his day and in a long...
Palais de Danse/Assembly Hall

Palais de Danse/Assembly Hall

Mar 7, 2013 | Places

The Palais de Danse was opened on Spencer Street in 1926 and called the Bath Assembly Hall. It was designed by Birmingham architect Horace Bradley for a local entrepreneur, Edith Dowding, who was a partner in the Bath Hotel. The 1920s saw the beginning of a dance...

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