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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
From a letter printed in the Birmingham Weekly Post, Friday December 11th 1937 - Mr. B.A. Porter:
"....part of an advertisement that appeared in a publication of 1849, concerning "the great Midland Metropolis of Birmingham"
CONCERT HALL, RODNEY INN, COLESHILL STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
PROPRIETOR, MR. H. HOLDER.
Open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for Gentlemen and Ladies only. ADMISSION FREE
H.H. Begs to announce to his friends and numerous patrons that he has completed his extensive alterations, the NEW CONCERT HALL, 97 feet in length, to which is added a spacious and commodious gallery. A NEW STAGE some 27 feet in length has been laid down. THE SPLENDID ORGAN was built by Hill of London..with ECHO ORGAN and a RING OF BELLS two octaves and a half. Mr. Holder, in thus announcing his new room, takes this opportunity of returning his heartfelt thanks for the liberal patronage hitherto bestowed upon him, and he pledges himself that nothing shall be wanting or expenses spared to make this establishment the most complete place of instructive and rational amusement in Birmingham. The manner in which the room is conducted prevents the most fastidious from being offended.
"This hall of Holder's was the forerunner of the Gaiety Concert Hall, later termed 'Theatre of Varieties'
and fell victim to that dread disease, Cinemaphobia.
Bernard A. Porter
Handsworth Wood.
"....part of an advertisement that appeared in a publication of 1849, concerning "the great Midland Metropolis of Birmingham"
CONCERT HALL, RODNEY INN, COLESHILL STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
PROPRIETOR, MR. H. HOLDER.
Open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for Gentlemen and Ladies only. ADMISSION FREE
H.H. Begs to announce to his friends and numerous patrons that he has completed his extensive alterations, the NEW CONCERT HALL, 97 feet in length, to which is added a spacious and commodious gallery. A NEW STAGE some 27 feet in length has been laid down. THE SPLENDID ORGAN was built by Hill of London..with ECHO ORGAN and a RING OF BELLS two octaves and a half. Mr. Holder, in thus announcing his new room, takes this opportunity of returning his heartfelt thanks for the liberal patronage hitherto bestowed upon him, and he pledges himself that nothing shall be wanting or expenses spared to make this establishment the most complete place of instructive and rational amusement in Birmingham. The manner in which the room is conducted prevents the most fastidious from being offended.
"This hall of Holder's was the forerunner of the Gaiety Concert Hall, later termed 'Theatre of Varieties'
and fell victim to that dread disease, Cinemaphobia.
Bernard A. Porter
Handsworth Wood.
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