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Old Mahogany: Wilton's Music Hall archive acquired by the V&A by Maev Kennedy

Collection charts east London theatre from Victorian pomp to near collapse, then shabby but structurally sound redemptionAn archive recording the glory days as well as the decay and near collapse of Wilton's Music Hall has been acquired by the V&A theatre collection.The archive includes a tattered and yellowed campaign poster, showing a shattered window in a mouldering brick wall, a reminder of the half century o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM on October 29, 2017

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