2-699-465 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Surrey Theatre', (c1878). The Surrey Theatre stood in Blackfriars Road, London. Originally known as the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy in 1782, it burnt down in 1799, in 1805, and again in 1865. A new theatre, designed by John Ellis, opened later that year on 26 December. Listed here are: The Old Theatre, 1865; Interior of the New Theatre, 1865; Ruins of the Old Theatre, 1865. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]