Beth Marquis
Troupe | Troupe Type | # of events |
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Brown, William Wells | Lecture | 1 |
Craft, William | Lecture | 1 |
Ojibbeway Indians | Exhibition | 1 |
Event | Date | Venue Location | Troupe |
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Exhibition | 4 October 1847 - 8 October 1847 | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Ojibbeway Indians |
Lecture | 31 March 1851 - 2 April 1851 | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Craft, William, Brown, William Wells |
”In a spacious situation at the east end of the Market Place, and facing the west, is THE EXCHANGE, which is a large room seventy feet long by thirty feet broad, used for the public dinners of the Corporation, and other purposes where great space for the accommodation of an audience is required […] Sometimes concerts and public exhibitions of various kinds are permitted; and here the shows of the Horticultural society take place. […]
It was originally built by the Corporation, about a hundred years ago, at an expence of £2400; the front being supported by pillars forming a piazza to correspond with the Long Row and Timber Hill , on the opposite sides of the Market Place. In the year 1822 it underwent great alterations. The columns were removed, and the piazza thrown open; the centre of the façade was enlarged, and a magnificent venetian window was substituted for the three niches in the old building […] It is now lighted with gas […]” (38-39, transcribed in Barker).