Britannia Panopticon
The World's oldest surviving Music Hall
Welcome to the website of the
Britannia Panopticon
the world's oldest surviving
Music Hall!
Opening Hours
We are open for general viewing Tuesdays to Fridays 12-5pm.
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Pickard's Picture House
June 28th
Doors open 6.30pm, screening 7pm
Silent Movie Night
July 5th
7pm
Silent movies with live musical accompaniment by Gladstone's bag!
July's films will have a fantasy theme, and we will be showing:
Alice in Wonderland (1915)
Pinocchio (1911)
Wizard of Oz (1910)
Ali Baba (1905)
The Cameraman's Revenge (Starewicz) (1912)
And an excerpt from Prince Achmed (1926)
Tickets available here.
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1917 Cine-Variety Show
July 8th
Shows at 1.30 & 3.30pm
One hundred years down the line, we are recreating 1917 historic music hall shows, featuring demonstrations by re-enactors, recruitment songs, comedy sketches, silent films and newsreels shown in
the Britannia Panopticon during 1917.
If you have a vintage act or particular interest and want to get involved, please email info@britanniapanopticon.o
Admission free.
Help Britannia Panopticon get heating!
We are running a GoFundMe campaign to raise money so we can install a three-phase electricity supply which will allow us to get heating!
Please give whatever you can and share this campaign with your friends!
For all you lovers of old theatres, have you heard of "Old Theatres" magazine? Well now you have and it will be available to buy from our little auditorium very soon, so pop by and purchase a copy.
A dedicated team of volunteers have worked in conjunction with the archiving department of Glasgow University to digitise the scrapbooks of one of the great showmen of Glasgow's history and former owner of the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, A. E. Pickard.
These scrapbooks are now available online for the whole world to view. So go on a take a look into the mind of one of the great characters of Music Hall history, and learn a little bit more about our beloved Britannia Panopticon at the same time.
Don't forget, "Glasgow's Lost Theatre - the Story of the Britannia Music Hall" written by Judith Bowers with Foreword by Michael Grade and published by Birlinn is for sale now for £12.99 from Amazon, Waterstone's, our shop at 49 High Street.
You can find our Amazon store here.
Contact Us
For bookings and information please contact:
Judith Bowers
Britannia Panopticon Music Hall
1st Floor
117 Trongate
Glasgow
G1 5HD
Tel: 0141 553 0840
E-mail: info@britanniapanopticon.org
For the Britannia Panopticon Charity Shop please contact:
Magda Shukis & Alex Brash
Panopticon Curiosity Shop
49 High Street
Glasgow
G1 1LX
Tel: 0141 552 4467
E-mail : shop@britanniapanopticon.org
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