3-077-726 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Victoria Coffee Palace and Music Hall, Waterloo-Road, Lambeth, [London], 1890. 'Wholesome and cheerful popular recreation for the working-classes of London is as needful in Lambeth as in Whitechapel; and we are glad to report that the institution founded, seven or eight years ago, in the building which was famous of yore as the Victoria Theatre, continues to prosper and to do much good. For this result no small credit is due to the beneficent labours of the lady, Miss Cons, [first] Alderman elect of the London County Council, who has long acted so diligently as Honorary Manager of the Victoria Hall...Our Illustrations show the large corner building...which has been converted into the Victoria Hall, but the interior of which, used for concerts and variety entertainments, retains its old arrangements as a theatre. The front part of the building contains the coffee tavern on the ground floor, and a lecture-room on the first floor, where the "Popular Science Lectures" are delivered...The audience in the theatre on Saturday evening is usually supplied with a "variety entertainment,"...On Monday evening there is a good orchestral concert, with some vocal music...There are religious services in the Hall on Sunday evenings'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.