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The First Decade: 1900-1909

A taxi rank and cabmen's shelter in 1908

Year

Month/Day

Event

1900	-	The Passmore Edwards Museum in Stratford was opened
1900	-	The Royal Mail sorting office moved to Mount Pleasant
1900	January 15th	The London Hippodrome opened at Charing Cross
1900	February 27th	The Labour Party was founded in Farringdon Street
1900	May 18th	News of the relief of Mafeking reached London
1900	June 22nd	The Wallace Collection was opened to the public
1900	July 30th	The first Central Line trains ran from Shepherd's Bush to Bank
1900	December 21st	The Camden Theatre was opened

1901	-	The Horniman Museum at forest Hill opened.
1901	-	The Trocadero Restaurant at Piccadilly Circus opened.
1901	-	Schmidt's German restaurant at Charlotte Street opened. It had the rudest waiters in London.
1901	-	Gladstone Park in willesden was established in the Grounds of Dollis Hill House.
1901	January 22	Queen Victoria died and Edward VII acceded to the Crown.
1901	March 12th	The Whitechapel Art Gallery opened.
1901	April 4th	The first electric trams began to run.
1901	June	The Wigmore Hall opened
1901	August 22nd	The last sretch of line for horse trams opened.

1902	-	Spitalfields Market was rebuilt
1902	-	Charles Booth published hisLife and Labour of the People of London.
1902	-	Thomas Thorneycroft's statue of Boudicca on westminster Bridge was unveiled.
1902	-	London's first Crematorium was opened in Golders Green.
1902	-	The Greenwich Foot Tunnel opened.
1902	-	Brixton Prison opened.
1902	-	Holloway Prison for female offenders opened.
1902	May 6th	The Last hanging at Newgate took place. The prison was shortly afterwards demolished.
1902	December 18th	The Metropolitan Water Board was established

1903	-	Westminster Cathedral was opened
1903	-	London's first Marks and Spencer Penny Bazaar opened in Brixton
1903	-	The first Foyl'e Bookshop was established at Peckham
1903	-	The first Blue Plaque was installed. It is on the former house of Lord Macauley in Camden Hill.
1903	January 27th	A fire at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum resulted in the deaths of more than 50 patients.
1903	August 17th	The Shepherds Bush Empire opened.

1904	-	The London School Board was abolished and its responsibilites taken over by the London County Council.
1904	-	The Metropolitan Fire Brigade became the London Fire Brigade.
1904	-	East Ham became a London Borough.
1904	May	The first London motorTaxi was licensed.
1904	-	William George Barker began what was to become Ealing Studios.
1904	-	The Jubilee Market at Covent Garden opened as the foreign Flower market
1904	-	Hampstead Heath was extended by private funding to prevent the construction of a proposed new tube station at North end.
1904	-	The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) was formed by Herbert Beerbohm.
1904	January 19th	The Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street was established.
1904	February 14th	The Great Northern and City Railway between Finsbury Park and Moorgate opened.
1904	April 4th	Easter Monday. The first annual Easter Parade of van horses was held at Regent's park.
1904	June 9th	The London Symphony Orchestra made its debut with Hans Richter conducting at the Queen's Hall.
1904	July 22nd	The Royal Horticultural Society opened its exhibition hall and headquarters at Vincent Square.
1904	December 24th	The Coliseum in St Martin's Lane opened as a variety theatre
1904	December 31st	The rebuilt Lyceum Theatre in Wellington Street opened.

1905	-	The Automobile Association was formed at 18 Fleet Street.
1905	-	The Working Men's College moved into new purpose-buiilt premises in Crowndale Road, Camden Town.
1905	-	The power station to allow the electrification of the District Line was opened at Lots Road ikn Chelsea.
1905	-	The Football Clubs, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic were formed.
1905	February 11th	The last performance was given at St James's Hall concert room in Piccadilly. It was replaced by the Piccadilly Hotel.
1905	May 22nd	The Strand Theatre opened.
1905	October 18th	Aldwych and Kingsway were oficially opened
1905	December 5th	Part of Charing Cross station collapsed and crushed the Avenue Theatre (now the Playhouse) beneath it. Six people were killed.
1905	December 23rd	The Aldwych Theatre opened.

1906	-	The London County Council bought part of Hainault Forest and opened it to the public.
1906	-	A hostel for the homeless men was opened in Bruce House, Kemble Street by the London County Council. It soon attracted the derisory title ofThe Poor Man's Carlton.
1906	February 24th	Single-deck tramcars began to run through the Kingsway tunnel
1906	March 10th	The Bakerloo line opened.
1906	April	\london's first coin-operated telephone box was installed at the Ludgate Circus Post Office.
1906	May 24th	The Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly opened.
1906	December 15th	The Piccadilly Line opened.

1907	-	The British Medical Association opened its new Headquarters on the Strand. The building by Charles Holden has 18 nude figures by the young Jacob Epstein on the outside which caused outrage at the time. The building later became Rhodesia House.
1907	-	The Queen's Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue opened.
1907	February 27th	The new Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, on the site of Newgate prison, oipened.
1907	June 8th	The first night of Lehar'sMerry Widow at Daly's Theatre by Leicester Square caused a sensation and an outbreak of "waltz fever" in London.
1907	June 22nd	The Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line opened.
1907	July 1	Edward VII opened the Union Jack Club in Waterloo Road.

1908	-	The Franco-British Exhibiiton at the newly constructed White City in Shepherds Bush was held.
1908	-	The Headquarters of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham was opened. The site was developed by William Williams and became known asBilly Williams's Cabbage Patch.
1908	January	What was probably the first Boy Scout troop was formed in Hampstead.
1908	June 12th	The rotherhithe Tunnel was opened.
1908	July	The 4th modern Olympic Games were held at White City.

1909	-	The Port of London Authority was established.
1909	-	The remains of Crosby Place in Bishopsgate were moved to the junction of the Embankment and Danvers Street in Chelsea. Homas More had owned the mansion and the new site was in the gounds of his Chelsea House.
1909	-	The Hampstead Astronomical and General Scientific Society opened its (still existing) observatory near Whitestone Pond.
1909	-	Hogarth's House in Chiswick was opened as a museum.
1909	March 15th	Gordon Selfridge opened his department store in Oxford Street.
1909	June 26th	The Victoria and Albert Museum was opened by Edward VII.
1909	December 20th	The Harding and Hobbs department store in Clapham was destroyed by fire.

The Second Decade: 1910-1919

Kitchener's famous recruitment poster

Year

Month/Day

Event

1910	-	Sir Aston Webb's Admiralty Arch opening onto the Mall was completed.
1910	-	Paul's Crossmin St Paul's Churchyard was re-erected under the will of H C Richards.
1910	-	Excavations for the foundations of County Hall on the south bank uncovered a Roman boat in the Thames mud.
1910	-	The first Post-Impressionist Exhibition opened at the Grafton Gallery. Paintings by Matisse, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat and Picasso went on display for the first time.
1910	-	The cinema arrived with the construction of the (still existing) Ritzy in Brixton, the Electric Cinema in Portobello Road and the Electric Pavilion in Holloway Road.
1910	-	The Windmill Theatre in Soho opened as a cinema called thePalais de Luxe.
1910	-	The London Palladium in Argyll Street opened as a Music Hall.
1910	February 1st	Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife Belle Ellmore at their house in Islington.
1910	April 10th	Anna Pavlova made her London debut at the Palace Theatre and was an immediate success.
1910	April	Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake had its first London performance at the London Hippodrome.
1910	May 6th	Death of Edward VII and accession of George V
1910	December 5th	Thomas Brock's statue of Henry Irving was unveiled outside the National Portrait Gallery.

1911	-	London's first aerodrome, at Hendon, become operational
1911	-	The population of Greater London was estimated at 7,252,000
1911	-	The "Pearly King" Association was formed
1911	-	The Prince's Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue opened as a house for melodrama. It is now called the Shaftesbury
1911	-	The Radium (later the Paris Pullman) cinema in Drayton Gardens, the Screen on the Green, Islington, the Cinematograph Theatre in Charing Cross Road and the Frognal Bijou Picture Palace in Hampstead all opened this year.
1911	January 3rd	The Sidney Street Siege left one policeman, one fireman and two anarchists dead.
1911	May 16th	Thomas Brock's statue of Queen Victoria outside Buckingham Palace was unveiled.
1911	October 30th	The New Middlesex Theatre of Varieties (later the Winter Garden) in Drury Lane opened.
1911	November 9th	The Victoria Palace Theatre opened as a variety hall on the site of the Royal Standard Music Hall.
1911	November 13th	The ill-fated London Opera House in Portugal Street was opened by Oscar Hammerstein.

1912	-	The Central Line was extended from Bank to Liverpool Street.
1912	-	Lyon's Corner House on the Strand was opened.
1912	-	The Pearl Assurance building on High Holborn was opened.
1912	-	Bertorelli's Restaurant in Charlotte Street opened.
1912	March 1st	Suffragettes went on a window smashing spree. Emmeline Pankhurst was jailed for nine months as a result.
1912	April 8th	The London Museum opened at Kensington Palace. In 1975 it was amalgamated with the Guildhall Museum to form the Museum of London.
1912	August 29th	After a huge procession from the Embankment, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was buried in Abney Park Cemetery with "full military honours".

1913	-	The Ionic Theatre was opened as a cinema. Anna Pavlova, who lived in the area, performed the opening ceremony.
1913	-	The Rialto cinema in Coventry Street opened. The restaurant beneath later became the Café de Paris nightclub.
1913	-	The east front of Buckingham Palace was completed by Sir Aston Webb who received his knighthood in front of it.
1913	January	The Poetry Bookshop in Boswell Street opened.
1913	January 1st	Taxi drivers went on strike to protest about the cost of petrol. They did not return to work until March 19th when they agreed to pay eightpence a gallon.
1913	February 20th	Suffragettes set fire to the Kew Tea Pavilion.
1913	March 2nd	Suffragettes were attacked by the crowd at Hyde Park.
1913	April 3rd	Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was imprisoned in Holloway for inciting persons to place explosives outside the country house of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George.
1913	May	Suffragettes attempted to set fire to the Royal Academy.
1913	May 4th	The Royal Horticultural Society held its annual exhibition of flowers in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital for the first time.
1913	May 6th	The Women's Suffrage Bill was lost in Parliament and an unexploded bomb was found in St Paul's Cathedral.
1913	May 22nd	A band of suffragettes attempted to storm Buckingham Palace.
1913	May 26	Britains's first Woman Magistrate, Miss Emily Duncan, was appointed at West Ham.
1913	June 4th	The Suffragette Emily Davidson was killed when she ran under the king's horse at the Epsom Derby.
1913	June 5th	The Ambassador's Theatre in West Street WC2 opened.
1913	July 4	The Bedford College for Women in Regents Park opened
1913	July 8th	The Bloomsbury Group opened the Omega Workshops for the manufacture of everyday items in Post-Impressionist designs.
1913	December 15th	There was a dynamite explosion at Holloway Prison where suffragettes, including Emmeline Pankhurst, were kept.
1913	December 26th	The Hippodrome at Golders Green was opened as a variety hall.

1914	-	The King Edward VII Galleries at the British Museum were opened.
1914	-	Dr Johnson's House at 17 Gough Square was opened to the public.
1914	-	The number of cinemas in the area controlled by the London County Council reached 266.
1914	February 2nd	Wagner's Parsifal had its first London Performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1914	March 1st	A Suffragette bomb exploded at St John the Evangelist church in Westminster.
1914	March 10th	Suffragette Mary Richardson badly damaged the Velazquez Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery.
1914	March 19th	The Times Literary Supplement was published separately for the first time. It had previously been part of the the newspaper.
1914	April 2nd	The actor Alec Guinness was born in London.
1914	April 5th	A Suffragette bomb exploded at the church of St Martin in the Fields.
1914	April 9th	The world's first full-length film The World, the Flesh and the Devil premiered at the Holborn Empire.
1914	April 11th	George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion Premiered at His Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket.
1914	May 4th	The House of Lords rejected the Women's Enfranchisement Bill.
1914	May 12th	Suffragettes defaced a portrait of Wellington at the Royal Academy.
1914	June 11th	A Suffragette bomb exploded at Westminster Abbey.
1914	June 14th	A Suffragette bomb exploded at St George's Hanover Square.
1914	April 2nd	The Geffrye Museum of furniture opened in Kingsland Road in a set of 14 almshouses originally built by the Ironmonger's Company in 1715.
1914	August 4th	War on Germany was declared.

1915	May 7th	Following the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German riots broke out across London and many shops owned by people with German-sounding names were attacked.
1915	May 31st	A Zeppelin dropped 90 incendiary and explosive bombs on east London killing five and injuring thirty-five people.
1915	July 19th	Kitchener personally began his recruitment campaign at the Guildhall.
1915	September 7th	Zeppelin raids kill sixteen people in south London.
1915	September 8th	The first bomb to fall on the City of London hit Fenchurch Street. A Zeppelin was chased all over London by British aeroplanes.
1915	September 8th	Zeppelin raids kill sixteen people in east London.
1915	September 14th	A grand assembly at the Guildhall launches a new conscription drive.

1916	August 31st	The musical Chu Chin Chow had the first of its record 2,238 performances at His Majesty's Theatre Haymarket. It was popular with soldiers on leave from the front.
1916	September 3rd	The pilot William Robinson chased an airship across London and shot it down over Enfield killing irs crew. He was awarded the VC but was himself shot down in April 1917.
1916	December 7th	Lloyd George became Prime Minister and formed a coalition government.

1917	January 19th	An explosion at the munitions factory at Silvertown killed seventy-three and injured ninety-four people. It has never been explained.
1917	June 14th	Gotha Aeroplanes replaced the Zeppelins. The first aeroplane raid killed sixteen children when a random bomb destroyed an infant school in Poplar.
1918	June 19th	The Royal Family formally renounced all of its German titles.
1917	July 7th	Aircraft raids caused substantial damage in central London and killed five people in Bartholomew Close and one man at the Midland Railway goods yard at St Pancras.
1917	July 19th	The last Zeppelin raid on London hit the Swan and Edgar store at Piccadilly Circus.
1917	September 24th	A 110 pound (50 kg) bomb was dropped outside the Bedford Hotel in Southampton Row killing thirteen and injuring twenty-six people.
1917	December 6th	A massive aeroplane raid dropped bombs on Chelsea, Brixton, Battersea, Stepney, Whitechapel, Clerkenwell and Shoreditch.

1918	-	The communist Club at 107 Charlotte Street was closed down as ite was considered subversive.
1918	February 6th	The Representation of the People Act became law. It granted the vote to women over the age of thirty.
1918	May 19th	The last bombing raid over London.
1918	November 11th	Armistice Day was celebrated on the streets of London.
	July 30th	The Duke of Bedford completed the sale (interrupted by the war) of the Covent Garden estate to the Beecham family.
1918	December 14th	The Wartime Coalition Government was re-elected with a massive majority. In this election British women voted for the first time.

1919	-	The Hammersmith Palais – "the most famous night spot in the world" – was opened in Shepherds Bush Road.
1919	November 11th	The first two minutes of silence in memory of the victims of the war was held.

The Twenties: 1920-1929

The Spirit of St Louis was greeted by huge crowds at Croydon Airport in 1927

Year

Month/Day

Event

1920	-	The Tavistock Clinic for psychotherapy was founded.
1920	March 29th	Croydon Aerodrome became London's main civil airport. It was the first major civil airport in the world.
1921	April 30th	Conscription was abolished.
1920	May	The Metropolitan water board opened its new Headquarters in Rosebery Avenue.
1920	June 5th	A revival of The Beggar's Opera began its record- breaking run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric, Hammersmith.
1921	August 1st	The British Communist Party was founded.
1920	September 15th	The Everyman Theatre in Hampstead was opened.
1920	November 11th	The Cenothaph, in Whitehall, was unveiled.
1920	November 11th	The unknown soldier was buried at Westminster Abbey.

1921	-	The last horse-drawn fire engine operated in London.
1921	-	The Stopes' opened their controversial birth control clinic in Marlborough Road.
1921	March 31st	The coal miners began a national strike that ended in humiliation on July 1st.
1921	July 8th	The George V Dock, the last to be built in central London, was opened by George V.
1921	December	The Football Association banned women's matches from taking place in grounds under their control.

1922	-	What was to become the most elegant high-street bank in London opened this year as a show room for Wolseley Motors at 160 Piccadilly. The unique Japanese and lacquered features were retained when it was converted into a bank in 1926.
1922	-	The new Port of London Authority building (delayed by the war) was opened on Trinity Square.
1922	-	The first Queen Charlotte Ball for Debutantes was held this year.
1922	-	The wide-legged trousers known as Oxford Bags became the rage for men of fashion.
1922	January 22nd	Walton's Facade had its first (private) performance at the Sitwell's house in Carlyle Square Chelsea. The composer conducted his music and Edith Sitwell recited her poetry.
1922	March 21st	The present Waterloo Station was opened by Queen Mary. Its construction had been delayed by the war.
1922	June 22nd	Field Marshal Henry Wilson, who advocated he re-conquest of Ireland, was murdered by two Irishmen
1922	July 17th	County Hall, headquarters of the London County Council on the South Bank, was formally and partly opened
1922	November 14th	The British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation) made its first regular broadcast.

1923	April 26th	The Duke of York (later George VI) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1923	May 29th	The first Football Association Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium. The crowd was far larger than the stadium's capacity and the event was a near disaster.
1923	June 8th	The law allowing wives to divorce their husbands on the grounds of adultry came into force.
1923	June 12th	Edith Sitwell staged the first performance of Walton's Facade at the Aeolian Hall. Hidden behind a curtain, she chanted her poetry through a megaphone.
1923	July 5th	French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen became the first woman to win the Wimbledon Ladies Championship for the fifth time running.
1923	December 13th	Lord Alfred Douglas, one-time lover of Oscar Wilde, was jailed for libelling Churchill.
1923	December 31st	St Saviour's Church for the Deaf and Blind held its last service at 419 Oxford Street before moving to Acton.

1924	-	The new road from London to Southend-on-sea was opened by Prince Henry this year.
1924	-	Charles Dickens' house in Doughty Street was purchased by the Dickens Fellowship.
1924	-	E M Forster's A Passage to India was published.
1924	-	The first Woolworth Store in Central London opened at 311 Oxford Street.
1924	March	Bitain's first national airline, Imperial Airways, began operating out of Croydon.
1924	March 26th	George Bernard Shaw's St Joan with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, premiered at the New Theatre.
1924	April 23rd	The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was opened and became a huge popular success.
1924	November 8th	The Fortune Theatre in Russell Street opened. It was the first theatre to be built in the West End after the war.
1924	December 10th	Morely College moved from its cramped rooms at the back of the Old Vic to its new building in Westminster Bridge Road. The building was destroyed in the Second World War.

1925	-	John Keats' house in Hampstead was opened as a museum.
1925	-	Greenwich Council acquired the Jacobean Mansion, Charlton House.
1925	-	Construction of the present Fortnum and Mason shop on Piccadilly ws begun this year.
1925	-	Liberty's with its limited frontage on Regent Street was rebuilt in a semi-Tudor Style.
1925	-	The Foundling Hospital closed and moved the children to the healthier countryside. Most of the site became the Harmsworth Memorial Playground and the hospital built a new headquarters on the remaining quarter.
1925	-	The Great West Road (the A4) was opened by George V.
1925	-	The Ironmongers opened their new Livery Hall off Aldersgate Street to replace that destroyed in the war.
1925	February 23rd	The grounds of Kenwood House in Highgate were saved for the public from the developers. Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Lord Iveagh, bought the house and made it clear that he would leave it as a bequest to the nation.
1925	April 6th	The scheduled Imperial Airways flight from Croydon to Paris became the first to shoe an in-flight motion picture film to its passengers. The film was First National/s production of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
1926	-	The Plaza Cinema in Lower rfegent Street opened this year.

1926	-	Aldridge's Horse Repository in Upper St Martin's Lane held its last horse sale.
1926	-	Traffic congestion caused by motor cars was beginning to become a problem and the first roundabout system was introduce this year, in Piccadilly Circus.
1926	January 5th	The Post Office began issuing Widow's Pensions for the first time.
1926	January 27th	John Logie Baird demonstrated television to an informal group from the Royal Institution at 22 Frith Street in Soho.
1926	May 1st	The Miners begin The General Strike.
1926	May 21st	Gunnersby Park on the Ealing-Acton border was opened to the public.

1927	June 23rd	George V and Queen Mary formally the newly reconstructed Regent Street.
1927	-	The Post Office finally completed its miniature, driver-less, fully automated underground railway system to carry mail between the principal sorting offices.
1927	May 29th	An enormous crowd converged on Croydon Airport to greet the arrival of Charles Lindbergh after his solo trans-atlantic flight.
1927	-	Colonel Frederick Lucas and his wife opened the first car park opposite White City in Wood Lane. Their company later became National car Parks with sites all over London.
1927	April 20th	The Arts Theatre Club opened in its new building in Great Newport Street.
1927	January	The Theatre Club Play-Room Six opened on the upper floors at 6 New Compton Street in Soho. It changed its name to the Player's Theatre two years later when it moved to the Ground Floor.
1927	April 27th	The Carlton Theatre in Haymarket opened with a musical but was converted to a cinema two years later.
1927	-	The Astoria Cinema opened in the shell of the old Crosse and Blackwell Building in Charing Cross Road.
1927	February	The last dramatic performance took place at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square. It was then demolished and the present Empire Cinema was constructed on the site.
1927	June 20th	Greyhound racing made its first London appearance at White City. A second stadium, at Haringay, was opened later in the year.

1929	-	The London and North eastern Railway introduced the Flying Scotsman non-stop service between London and Edinburgh.
1928	-	The London County Council built the Ossulston Estate in Somerstown. It was the first example of local-authority high-rise and has strong Viennese influences.
1928	-	The Firestone Factory, in spectacular Egyptian style, was built on the Great West Road at Hounslow. It was wantonly and deliberately destroyed by the Trafalgar House Company in 1980 just as English Heritage were about to List it.
1928	-	Palladium House at 1 Argyll Street with its spectacular black granite and floral motifs was built this year.
1928	-	The Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane was built this year. The colonnaded front is by Lutyens and it was the only London Hotel to contain a swimming pool and an ice rink (added in 1929).
1928	-	Chiswick House, the mansion designed and built by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, was acquired for the public by Middlesex County Council.
1928	-	Valence House, a late 16th century timber-framed house and the only mansion of any importance left in Dagenham, was bought by the local Council. It is now a local-history centre and museum.
1928	-	The Embassy Theatre at Swiss Cottage opened this year.
1928	April 27th	The Piccadilly Theatre opened and was almost immediately taken over for Talkies.
1928	May 2nd	The new passenger terminal buildings were opened at Croydon airport.
1929	May 7th	Parliament reduced the voting age for women from 30 to 21.
1928	Sepember 15th	Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
1928	November	The Carreras Tobacco Factory (The Black Cat Factory) in Mornington Cresecent with its Egyptian style was completed.
1928	December 10th	The Underground concourse at Piccadilly Circus tube station, designed by Charles Holden, was completed.

1929	-	Tower Pier on the north bank of the Thames opened this year.
1929	-	Marie Rambert established the Russian School of Dancing at the Mercury Theatre in Ladbroke Road.
1929	May 31st	The Local Government Act abolished Workhouses and the last meetings of the Poor Law Guardians took place. Under the Act, the London County council also tokk over responsibility for schools and hospitals.
1929	July	Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet opened at His Majesty's, Haymarket and was an instant success.
1929	September	The Conway Hall in Red Lion Square opened. It is the headquarters of the South Place Ethical Society.
1929	October 28th	There were sharp falls on the London Stock Market after the Wall Street Crash on the 24th.
1929	November 25th	The Duchess Theatre in Catherine Street opened
1929	October 3rd	The Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road opened.
1929	November 10th	At the Royal Albert Hall, Yehudi Menuhin, aged 13, gave his first public violin performance

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