Calendar of London Concerts 1750-1800

Places

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A/W	Almack's Rooms, King Street (to 1782); becomes Willis's Rooms in 1783 (old name sometimes retained at first).
AM	Arts Museum, Haymarket.
APL	Apollo Gardens.
APO	Temple of Apollo, Queen Square.
ART	Society of Artists' Exhibition Room, Strand.
BUF	Buffalo Tavern, Bloomsbury Square.
BUT	Mrs Butter's Boarding School, Church Street, Stoke Newington.
C&A	Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand.
C&R	Crown and Rolls Tavern, Chancery Lane.
CAS	Castle Tavern, Paternoster Row.
CG	Covent Garden Theatre.
CHA	Charlotte Street Chapel, near Buckingham Gate.
CKH	Cooks Hall, Aldersgate Street.
CMA	Coachmakers Arms, Great Windmill Street.
CMB	Grove House, Camberwell.
CMH	Coachmakers Hall, Foster Lane, Cheapside.
COC	Circulating Library, 9 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.
CP	Clayton and Pary's Room, King Street.
CRO	Crown Tavern, behind the Royal Exchange.
CSN	Casino, Great Marlborough Street [at No 43, now No 48]. [See also MST].
DEP	Assembly Room, Roman Eagle, Church Street, Deptford.
DEV	Devil Tavern, Temple Bar.
DL	Drury Lane Theatre.
DST	Great Room, Dean Street (Mr Ogle's, later Mrs Ogle's).
ECH	Edinburgh Coffee House, Sweeting's Alley, Royal Exchange.
EE	Exeter Exchange Concert Room, Strand.
ELI	Elim Chapel, 105 Fetter Lane.
FBC	Five Bells Church, Strand.
FBT	Five Bells Tavern, behind the new church, Strand.
FH	Foundling Hospital Chapel.
FMH	Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street.
FMT	Freemasons Tavern.
GEO	George Tavern, King Street, Westminster.
GL	Gold Lamp, King Square Court, Dean Street.
GLB	Globe Tavern, Craven Street, Strand.
GLO	Globe Tavern, Fleet Street.
GRE	Greenwood's Room, Haymarket.
H	Hickford's Rooms, Brewer Street (until 1787); later (1788) Rice's Rooms or (1794) Assembly Room, 40 [41?] Brewer Street.
HAB	Haberdashers Hall, Maiden Lane.
HAM	Long Room, Hampstead.
HAR	Mr Harvey's Room, Talbot Tavern, Richmond.
HAT	Hatton House, Cross Street, Hatton Garden.
HAY	New Theatre / Little Theatre / Theatre Royal Haymarket [not the same as the King's Theatre].
HM	Half-Moon Tavern, Cheapside.
HOD	Hodge's Long Room, Sunning Hill.
HOL	Mr Holland's, Bedford Row.
HRN	Brother Griffith's, the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons.
HSQ	Hanover Square Rooms (Gallini's Rooms, Festino Rooms).
ISL	Highbury Assembly Room, Islington.
JOI	Joiners Hall, Upper Thames Street.
JST	New Theatre, James Street.
KA	King's Arms Tavern, Exchange Alley, Cornhill.
KIN	Kingston-upon-Thames Church.
KT	King's Theatre, Haymarket (also Opera House).
KTG	King's Arms Tavern, Grafton Street, Soho.
KTR	King's Theatre Room (New Rooms, etc).
LH	Lock Hospital Chapel, Grosvenor Place, near Hyde Park Corner.
LIS	Lisle Street, Leicester Fields.
LLH	City of London Lying-in Hospital Chapel, City Road.
LOF	Loft's Great Room, Goodman's Fields.
LON	London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street.
LYC	Lyceum, Strand.
M	Marybone Gardens.
ME	Assembly Room, Mile End.
MIT	Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street.
MST	40 Great Marlborough Street. Unlikely to be the same as CSN (Casino, Great Marlborough Street), which was not at No 40.
NH	Nag's Head Tavern, Leadenhall Street.
NL	New Lyceum, Hanover Square.
NLT	New London Tavern, Cheapside.
OAT	Mr Oates', Barton Street, Westminster.
P	Pantheon, Oxford Street.
P&G	Pillar and Gold Lamp, Haymarket.
PH	Paul's Head Tavern, Cateaton Street.
PM	(New) Auction Room, Pall Mall.
R	Ranelagh Gardens (Ranelagh House).
RCH	Richmond Church.
RIC	Assembly Room, Richmond.
ROS	Rose Tavern, Marybone Gardens.
ROT	Rotherhithe Long Room, near King Stairs.
ROY	Royalty Theatre, Well Street, Wellclose Square.
S&H	Swan and Hoop Tavern, Cornhill.
SEC	Mr Sechard's Rooms, 115 Pall Mall.
SET	Mr Settree's Rooms, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
SG	Great Room, Spring Gardens (Mr Cox's Auction Room, etc).
SHP	Ship Tavern, behind the Royal Exchange.
SHR	Sherrard House, Sherrard Street, Golden Square.
SMW	St Margaret's Church, Westminster.
SSQ	Soho Square (Carlisle House, Mrs Cornelys').
STG	St George's Lutheran Chapel, Goodman's Fields.
SUN	Sun Tavern, King Street.
SWN	Swan Tavern, Chelsea.
THA	Thatched House Tavern, St James's Street.
THR	Great House, Thrift Street, Soho.
TOP	Mr Topham's New Room, Castle Tavern, Richmond.
TRK	Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street.
TST	Tottenham Street Rooms (the Ancient Music Concert Rooms, Mr Pasquali's Rooms, etc).
V	Vauxhall Gardens.
VIL	Mr Villeneuve's Room, 6 Newman Street, Oxford Road.
WA	Westminster Abbey.
WES	Wesleys' house, Chesterfield Street.