Bath's First Theatre Royal
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Lecture Theatre 5W 2.3
The story of an anonymous-looking building in one of Bath's cobbled backstreets that contains over 260 years of history, from being the first Theatre Royal outside of London, to a Catholic Chapel where Bishops preached and finally the home of England's oldest provincial Masonic Lodge and Museum.
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Mr Malcolm Toogood
Malcolm Toogood is an Author and Historian; he is also one of the Trustees for the Old Orchard Street building. Malcolm was born in Bath and educated at the City's Technical School, from where he entered the publishing industry in 1967, producing technical manuals for complex industrial equipment and aircraft for more than 35 years. Now semi-retired, he writes historical books and articles and has recently published his first novel.