Charing Cross Music Hall

The Charing Cross Music Hall was a music hall established beneath the Arches of Charing Cross railway station in 1866 by brothers, Giovanni and Carlo Gatti to replace the former Hungerford Hall. The site had been acquired, together with Hungerford Market, by the South Eastern Railway in 1862, and incorporated into the railway station, which opened on 11 January 1864, resulting in the demolition of the theatre. The new theatre was built in the substantial two level space formed by two of the arches of the undercroft of the station, and opened in 1867, as The Arches, was renamed in 1883 as the Hungerford Music Hall, and became known in 1887 variously as the Charing Cross Music Hall, Gatti's under the Arches and Gatti's Charing Cross Music...