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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1856

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Total Destruction of Coventgarden Theatre. (From the European Times, March 7.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1856 · page 2

At an early hour on Wednesday morning, the 5th, a calamitous fire originated in Covent-garden Theatre, which speedily reduced to a mass of shapeless ruins that mag[?]ific[?]nt building. During the whole night the…

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Destruction of the Queen's Theatre by Fire

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1856 · page 2

Those who were present at the Theatre on Tuesday evening could little anticipate that the successful performances of that night would be the last they would have the pleasure of witnessing (for the present at…

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