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Auction 249  1-2 Feb 2022
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Lot 1193

Estimate: 20 GBP
Price realized: 30 GBP
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Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Theatre and Entertainment, DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Celebration of Twelfth Night, 6 January 1891, a card ticket issued by Mr Augustus Harris, named (Mr J. Hatton), 180 x 123mm (Young, Theatre, p.35, this piece).; COVENT GARDEN, Royal Opera House, Mecca Dancing, a coloured Diploma presented by Butlin's to Mr Leo Randolph for 1st Prize in a competition on 30 November 1944, Free Board & Accommodation for one week at a Butlin Holiday Camp [2]. First with incision at right, otherwise very fine £20-£30

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Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-96), actor, impresario and dramatist, a previous manager of the Royalty Theatre near the Tower of London, took over the lease of the Theatre Royal in 1879. In 1892 he added the Royal English Opera House to his portfolio. He died of diabetes in Brighton in June 1896. Butlin's holiday camps remained closed during World War II
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