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Cider Cellars

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Venue Type & Location

Tavern

Overview

  • Address: 20 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden (behind the Adelphi Theatre). For a current map, Click Here.

  • Performance Space Description: Information about this venue has not yet been compiled; however, some sense of the performance space may be gleaned by following the links at right. In particular:

  • See the 'Bibliographic Sources' link for a provisional list of venue-relevant resources (both primary and secondary). Wherever possible (i.e. when the pertinent text is relatively short and/or easily condensed) this material has been transcribed, and appears beneath the appropriate bibliographic citation.

  • See the 'Events at venue' link for a listing of blackface/minstrelsy-related events that took place in this performance space (with attached bibliographic references).

    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Cider Cellars

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Barlow, W.R. Barlow, W.R. Minstrel Definite Barlow, W.R.
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Dumbolton, James A. Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) White, W. Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Howard (minstrel), Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Stanwood, Moody Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Wells, Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Bryant, Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49) Parker, Minstrel Definite Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)

    Events at Cider Cellars

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Dumbolton's Serenaders (1848-49)
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Barlow, W.R.
    Concert - London, London (city-county) Barlow, W.R.

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • Bell’s Life in London December 26, 1847: 2:1.
    • Bell's Life in London February 20, 1848: 2:1.
    • London: H.G. Clarke & Co., 1851


      “At the back of the [Adelphi] theatre, in Maiden Lane, is a noted place of late-hour entertainment, called the ‘Cider Cellars,’ originally opened as a concert room, underground in 1730” (215).
    • (Under Food and Drink - Night Houses and Supper Rooms - Song-and-Supper Rooms)
    • London: The Library Association, 1970
      pp61-2.
    • London: Pavilion, 1986


      Quotes Christopher Pulling's They Were Singing:The “Cave of harmony in [Thackeray’s] The Newcomes was probably a composite picture of Evans’s and the Coal Hole, just as his Back Kitchen in Pendennis has been identified with the Cyder Cellars” (4).