The Victoria Palace theatre had humble beginnings as a small room for unlicensed 'harmonic meetings' above the stables of the Royal Standard Hotel, a small hotel and tavern built in 1832. By 1840 the proprietor John Moy had obtained a licence for singing and dancing on the premises. He then...
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