Beefsteak Club
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Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th- and 19th-century male dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of li
The present-day Beefsteak Club, Irving Street, London
Badge of the Sublime Society: a gridiron and the motto "Beef and Liberty"
1793 press report – "Club" and "Society" are used interchangeably
Dining room at the Lyceum, used by the Sublime Society, restored by Henry Irving. The kitchen is at the rear, beyond the gridiron-shaped grating.
Toole's Theatre
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Toole's Theatre was a 19th-century West End building in William IV Street, near Charing Cross, in the City of Westminster. A succession of auditoria had occupied the site since 1832, serving a variety
Façade of Toole's Theatre, 1882
1834 advertisement
W. S. Woodin in his Olio of Oddities, 1856
Lionel Brough, Lydia Thompson and Willie Edouin in Blue Beard, 1874