Sadler's Wells Theatre
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Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site. Sadler's Wells grew out of a late 17th-century pleasure garden and was opened as a theatre building in the 1680s.
Sadler's Wells, 2015
The first, wooden, Sadler's Wells "Musick-House"
1700 newspaper advertisement
William Hogarth's Evening engraving from the 1736 Four Times of the Day series depicts the gate to Sadler's Wells (left) along the New River canal, across from a tavern (right) bearing a sign picturing canal patron Hugh Myddelton
Islington
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Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the area around the busy High Street, Upper Street, Essex Road, and Southgate Road to the east.
Buildings on Islington High Street
1861 Royal Agricultural Hall, view from Liverpool Road. Now the rear entrance to the Business Design Centre
1861 Cattle show at the Royal Agricultural Hall
A statue of Hugh Myddelton, creator of the New River, surmounts a drinking fountain at Islington Green. (November 2005)