Owners / Managers

Sir Walter Gibbons -1933

In the great music hall booms preceding the European War, Walter Gibbons appeared on the scene as the youngest and most vigorous of the men who challenged the supremacy of Moss and Stoll. He was at first associated with George Adney Payne and later married his daughter. The London Theatres of Variety Syndicate was in part his creation. This was headed by the London Palladium, built on the site of Hengler's Circus and opened in September 1910, its first bill including Sir John Martin Harvey in a one-act play. Gibbons who was knighted for his services in connection with the War, died in October, 1933.

From EARLY DOORS by Harold Scott