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Description: | This view shows Charles Wyndham's Theatre on Charing Cross Road and the corner of Cranbourn Street. The theatre was built in 1899, to the designs of W G R Sprague. The building to the left of the theatre was demolished a couple of years later to make way for Leicester Square Underground station.
Posters advertise the opening play as one by Henry Arthur Jones, featuring an actress named Mary Moore who was actually Wyndham's wife. However the first play actually performed here was David Garrick, by Tom Robertson.
There are two hansom cabs waiting outside the theatre and, in the far right corner, a knife-grinder's cart stands unattended. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 1900 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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