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| | The Oxford Music Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | In 1857 the music halls began to invade the west end. |
 | | He found the old coaching inn, the Boar and Castle in Oxford Street, at the junction with Tottenham Court Road, long obsolete since the coming of the railways, but still with its old courtyard which was relatively easily converted into a music hall. |
 | | At Islington, for instance, the whole audience, men and women, joined heartily in the chorus of well-known songs, to the amusement of the singer; here, on the other hand, the popular favorite 'Sam Collins' did all he could to persuade the people to sing the chorus of his ditty, and yet scarcely a voice responded. |
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