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Parthenon Rooms

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Venue Type & Location

Multi-use

Overview

  • Address: 32 Great Charlotte Street. For a current map, Click Here.

  • Alternate Names: Parthenon Music Hall, Royal Parthenon Assembly Rooms

  • 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 Parthenon Rooms

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Yankee Mellor Minstrel Definite Yankee Mellor

    Events at Parthenon Rooms

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Minstrel Show - Liverpool, Lancashire Yankee Mellor

    Bibliographic Sources

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    • Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1908
      p346.

      ” THE PARTHENON MUSIC HALL. It was in the early 'forties of the last century that the Parthenon in Great Charlotte Street first came into existence. In an advertisement for February 25, 1845, announcing a ball, the Royal Parthenon Assembly Rooms are described as being ' new and spacious.' At first the place was used for various kinds of entertainments. The Iowa Indians were on exhibition in March, 1845, and Bianchi's wax-works in the following August. Exactly a year later the Rooms were under the direction of the proprietor, Mr. J. G. Stoll, who announced that ' an unrivalled company of dancing and vocal talent are nightly engaged.' There was no charge for admission, the ' open sesame ' to the entertainment being the money paid for refreshments. Afterwards the hall was known as the Parthenon Music Saloon, and in 1850 as the Parthenon Rooms.” (346)

      “Early in 1904 the hall was reconstructed internally, and made more commodious. In 1907 Mr. Smith severed his connection with the theatre. Afterwards the hall was styled the Theitre Moderne. Recently the building was acquired by Messrs. Henochsberg and Ellis, and converted into a clothing establishment.” (349).