Regency Hot Spots: Amusements in Hereford

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AMUSEMENTS PUBLIC OCCURRENCES & c THE Theatre in Broad Street The company generally perform for a season once in three years and occasionally during the intervals The Races These continue for three days and generally take place in the month of August annually on a good course at Widemarsh in the north suburb of the city The races are generally well attended Music Meetings The Meetings of the Three Choirs of Hereford Worcester and Gloucester take place at Hereford erery third year and continue for three days The best performers are generally engaged at these meetings and they are a source of the most refined amusement Each evening's performance concludes with a ball Chapter Audits The Dean and Chapter hold their audits on the Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday after the 5th of November annually The services at the cathedral are upon these occasions performed in a style highly attractive and gratifying Assemblies The Dancing Assemblies commence in October and continue during the winter season They are always holden on Tuesday generally once a month and occasionally of tener Bowling Green C There is a subscription Bowling Green behind the house called the Bowling Green in Bewall street near All saints church There is a Fives Court at the Nag's 1 kad and Skittle Alleys at the Thatched Tavern and Aylestone Hill Coffee house Societies There are several benefit Societies at Hereford those at the Bowling Green and at the Coach and Horses are the prin cipal A Walk through Hereford…(1819)

bridge has an irregular appearance The Theatre of Hereford has some claims notice from having been the nursery of Clive a Siddons and a Kemble it's ivdeed was for many years in the Kemble family who had long been of this city The present Theatre is a very neat modern building standing on the w side of Broad street and having a pediment ornamented with busts & c Other sources of amusement are derived from Assembly rooms with and occasional concerts The pop ulation of Hereford as returned under the act of 1811 amounted to 7306 of which 3145 were males and 4161 females the number of houses at the same period was Many persons of considerable

The Hereford guide (1806)


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The Cambrian Traveller’s Guide, in Every Direction (1813)

Unfortunately, I was unable to find images of the original, Regency era theatre on Broad Street in Hereford, but hopefully these description capture your imagination!

Here is a much later image of Broad Street in Hereford:

Hereford, Broad Street

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