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Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, LAMBETH, Royal Circus Surrey Theatre, [1816-65], uniface copper, royal circus surrey theatre around pit, 35mm (W 428; D & W 36/385). Fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: Bt May 2007.

The Surrey Theatre began as the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy in 1782. It was reconstructed as a theatre in 1799, and rebuilt as the Surrey Theatre in 1806. In 1816 it was retitled as the Royal Circus Surrey Theatre, but was destroyed by fire in January 1865; the rebuilt edifice opened as the New Surrey Theatre on Boxing Day that year but finally closed as a place of entertainment in 1924