Qualla: Albert Hall Music Hall https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/albert-hall-music-hall-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Albert Hall Music Hall https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall Albert Hall Music Hall: Introduction https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall/ Photo credit Zoyetu, CC BY-SA 4.0. In April 1873, William Fussey filed plans with Hull City Council for a simple two-storey warehouse on Midland Street. A year later he filed amendments adding two tiny dressing rooms with a kitchen below, and rechristened the building the Albert Hall Inn. The dressing rooms tell the real story. Fussey was a Hull merchant with entertainment in his family blood, and his warehouse had been a feint. What he actually wanted to build was a music hall, one of the first in Kingston upon Hull. The Albert Hall opened officially in 1874. Over the next 142 years it would be a variety theatre, a pub, a bingo hall, and finally a heap of Victorian brick on a Hull demolition site.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/albert-hall-music-hall-wp/gcxc-albert-hall-music-hall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Albert Hall Music Hall: Midland Street's Moment https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall/ Photo credit Zoyetu, CC BY-SA 4.0. The location was no accident. Hull Paragon Station had opened in 1848, and by the mid-1850s the city was building new streets to connect the railway terminus with the older neighbourhoods around Osborne Street and Porter Street. The new street that faced the station entrance was ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/albert-hall-music-hall-wp/gcxc-albert-hall-music-hall-midland-streets-moment.mp3 0:06 2 full Albert Hall Music Hall: An Irish Drama in October https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall/ Photo credit Zoyetu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Evidence of the Albert Hall's theatrical life is fragmentary but precious. A promotional leaflet survives from October 1886, advertising itself as the 'Royal Albert Hall' (an ambitious bit of marketing borrowed from the Kensington venue that had opened fifteen years earlier) and ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/albert-hall-music-hall-wp/gcxc-albert-hall-music-hall-an-irish-drama-in-october.mp3 0:06 3 full Albert Hall Music Hall: Bombs, Bingo, and Bulldozers https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall/ Photo credit Zoyetu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hull was the most bombed city per capita in the United Kingdom during the Blitz. Whole neighbourhoods of Victorian buildings disappeared in 1941 alone. The Albert Hall survived, and after the war the founding of preservation bodies like the Victorian Society in 1958 brought new a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/c/albert-hall-music-hall-wp/gcxc-albert-hall-music-hall-bombs-bingo-and-bulldozers.mp3 0:06 4 full Albert Hall Music Hall: What the Plans Survived https://qualla.com/albert-hall-music-hall/ Photo credit Zoyetu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tawazun London Limited owns the site today, where the Albert Hall once stood between an empty lot and the demolished New York Hotel. Planning permissions came and went, including a 2005 proposal for a 116-bedroom hotel that quietly expired in 2010. The bricks have gone to landfil...

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