Astley's Amphitheatre

Image Gallery

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  Astley's Amphitheatre in 1777

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  Philip Astley (c.1800)

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  Astley's location on a 1802 London map

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  Astley's Amphitheatre in 1807

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  Astley's Amphitheatre (c.1807)

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  Astley's Amphitheatre in 1815

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  Astley's Amphitheatre in 1832

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  A performance at Astley's Amphitheatre in 1850

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  Astley's Amphitheatre (c.1850)

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  The hippodramaEquestrian pantomime, often with a military subject matter, very popular in mid-nineteenth-century urban circuses. Richard III at Astley's Amphitheatre in 1856

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  The new ceiling of Astley's Amphitheatre in 1858

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  Astley's Amphitheatre in 1878

See Also

• Biographies: Philip Astley, John Astley, Andrew Ducrow, William Cook, "Lord" George Sanger

Suggested Reading

• Maurice Willson Disher, Greatest Show On Earth (London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1937)