Andy Garth: Christmas arrivals

Christmas is coming and I open the shop full-time during December, which is all well and good as long as I have some new and eye-catching stock to entice the discerning purchaser into the premises to spend their hard-earned cash.

So to my delight a dear friend and client of mine gave me these two Theatre Royal posters which I have had mounted and am now displaying in prime position in the window.
The first poster is 150 years old and is advertising an amateur production in celebration of the then proprietor Mr H Nye Chart, who was a well known local celeb and ran an extremely good theatre.

The interesting thing about this is appearances from members of the Attree family, who were the original owners of Brighton’s Queens Park and the original villa, who were heavily involved in the formation and success of the town during and after the Prince Regent’s tenure. And also the name still remains as undertakers in the city today.

The first poster is 150 years old and is advertising an amateur production

The second poster is from 1881 and offers six nights of performances from George Rignold who had just returned from a tour of America and Australia, which was some travelling feat in those days.

Two other points from this poster is that at the top it states that the theatre was also an Opera House, as at the bottom of the poster the announcement of the next week’s performance of Olivette presented by Mr D’Oyly Carte, whose operas were highly popular at the time.

Come and see what’s on offer for Xmas at Brighton and Hove Stuff
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