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The Theatre Royal, New Street

Published 1880 · New Street, Birmingham

Engraving of a classical theatre front with arched doorways, paired columns and a balustrade, horses and a carriage in the street. — Unknown, Published 1880. R. K. Dent, Old and New Birmingham (1880), p. 123, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

THEN: the Theatre Royal’s Georgian front on New Street, by Samuel Wyatt, from R. K. Dent’s Old and New Birmingham (1880). The front survived two fires and was demolished in 1902; the rebuilt theatre closed in 1956.

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