The Lord Raglan Music Hall, 26 Theobald's Road, Red Lion Square, Holborn

Also known as the Raglan Music Hall

See Also - The Raglan Music Hall, Borough

Above - The Auditorium and Stage of the Lord Raglan Music Hall, Holborn - From A History of Everyday Things in England 1851 to 1914 by Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell 1956.

The Lord Raglan Music Hall was situated on Theobald's Road in Red Lion Square, Holborn and was a large concert room attached to the Golden Horse Public House. It was first opened by Frederick Russell on the 12th of May 1856. In its short life it became a very popular Music Hall especially when it was run by Henry Hart from 1857 who would also go on to open the Raglan Music Hall in Borough some years later.

Right - An Advertisement for the opening of the Lord Raglan Music Hall, Holborn - From The Era, 4th of May 1856.

The North London News carried a piece on the Holborn Raglan in their 20th of December 1862 edition, which amongst other things said:- 'The Lord Raglan Music Hall, Theobald's road, which the proprietor (Mr. Hart) has by degrees transmuted from a simple "singing tavern" into one of the most popular, if not the most gaudy or extensive, of our London music-halls.

The hall in question is an extremely chaste and handsome one - of capacious dimensions (being estimated to hold comfortably a thousand persons), and having more plate glass than pretension about its decoration, there is nothing to fatigue the eye or distract attention from the business of the stage.

Left - A Report on the Lord Raglan Music Hall, Holborn - From the Morning Chronicle, 22nd of September 1856.

The lighting is brilliant, almost to excess - whilst the ventilation is all that could be desired. There are one or two other attractions at the Raglan, apart from the ordinary entertainments, which form an agreeable interlude for those who may be blase with the usual amusements in the hall, and which meet with their due share of appreciation and patronage.' - The North London News, 20th of December 1862.

Arthur Lloyd is known to have performed at the Raglan Music Hall, Holborn in 1868, see the advertisement shown right.

Right - An advertisement in the ERA of 19th April 1868 showed Arthur Lloyd performing four Halls a night including the Raglan, Holborn.

The Raglan Music Hall, Holborn closed with a Farewell Benefit for George Parkes on Monday the 10th of December 1877 and was then demolished. George Parkes had been running the Music Hall for a short while before its demise. Henry Hart was in attendance on its last night.

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