Catalogue description Architects Departments Theatres, Cinemas and Places of Entertainment

AR/TH - Theatres, cinemas and places of public entertainment - plans and drawings

A large collection of plans and drawings of places of public entertainment submitted in connection with their licensing has been transferred to the Record Office from the Architect's Department (Theatres Section). They include not only plans and drawings of premises which have ceased to be licensed but the older plans and drawings of many premises which continue to be currently licensed.

The references are now GLC/19R/BR/19/ alphabetical index available on the open shelves.

Exhibition halls are included under this general heading as matter of convenience, although the statutory control exercised over them sterns normally from the sections of the London Building Acts dealing with temporary and special buildings and structures and not from the licensing legislation applicant to places of public entertainment.