Building    From 28/2/1820  To 6/2/1830

Argyll Rooms Concert Hall

Categories: Music / songs

The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as part of the Regent Street redevelopment, by John Nash himself, to provide a concert hall, other public rooms and shop space for the publications of the Royal Harmonic Institution who opened the building with a performance on 28 February 1820. The Institution was not a financial success and, coincidentally we're sure, the building was destroyed by fire in 1830. It was replaced with houses with shops on the ground floor.

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Argyll Rooms Concert Hall

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Joyce Sims

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Bela Bartok

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Sir Charles Santley

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Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
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Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

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