Royalty theatre [London, UK]
East London Theatre
Ensign Street, Wellclose Square, Stepney
Well Street
Built 1785-1787 as Royalty Theatre. Around 1817 shorly named East London Theatre. Destroyed by fire on 11 April 1826. Subsquently the Royal Brunswick Theatre was built on the site.
on the 10th April 1826, both the theatre building and the gas works were burned down after a failure to properly extinguish a number of the stage lights. This also appears to have been the first loss of a London theatre in a gas-related incident.
Burnt down through an escape of gas on the stage.
first use of gas light