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London 1898 Silver APOSTLE SPOON Boyston & Son St. Luke
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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of the Haymarket with a mention of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, where the young Mozart performed in 1765:

The Theatre Royal, Haymarket, opposite Her Majesty's Theatre, is dwarfed by the proximity of its gorgeous neighbour.

The names of Fielding, Cibber, Macklin, and Foote are connected with various attempts to make the earliest venture on this site pay.

Mozart performed here in 1765, when only eight years old.

In 1820 the present building was erected by Nash, adjacent to the old theatre.

The Haymarket in the last (nineteenth) century was a great place for shows and entertainments.

In James's Street was a tennis-court much patronized by Charles II and the Duke of York.

Whitcomb Street was formerly called Hedge Lane, an appropriate name when it stood in a rural district; now (1903) it is a narrow, dirty thoroughfare, bordered by poor dwellings and small shops.

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