“In the old days, when Lady Halle and Sir Charles gave us such delightful recitals (at the Albert Hall), the idiotic jangling of the Parish Church discordant bells or the nearer and louder but more tuneful bells of St. Marie’s Catholic Church, used to spoil our enjoyment. When these were stopped we suffered from the megaphone voice of a police inspector in Burgess Street calling up the cars and carriages of Sheffield people who persistently, rudely, and selfishly leave the concert before the programme is completed.”
Christopher David Leng – 1921.
The Albert Hall would have been on the right of this photo, its frontage on Barker’s Pool. Built in 1873 and destroyed by fire in 1937. Later the site of Cole Brothers and subsequently John Lewis.
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