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Venue Type & Location

Tavern

Overview

  • Address: Fountain Court, Strand. For a current map, Click Here. For an historical map showing the venue (in addition to the one excerpted at right), 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 Coal Hole

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    American Palmer, the Kentucky Banjo Player Palmer, Minstrel Definite American Palmer, the Kentucky Banjo Player
    Bedford Bedford (minstrel), Minstrel Definite Bedford
    Cave, J.H. Cave, J.H. Minstrel Definite Cave, J.H.

    Events at Coal Hole

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Bedford
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Minstrel Show - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Minstrel Show - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Cave, J.H.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) American Palmer, the Kentucky Banjo Player

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • (Under Food and Drink - Night Houses and Supper Rooms - Song-and-Supper Rooms)
    • London: The Library Association, 1970
      p48.
    • Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1981
      p71.
    • 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).

      Also notes that no women were permitted during the years covered by this database, and that there was no admission fee (9).