London Queen’s Hall – BBC Promenade Concert – 1939

Date 14/08/1939

London Queen's Hall – BBC Promenade Concert – 1939

An original BBC Promenade Concert programme from the Queen’s Hall, London, dated 14 August 1939, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Just three weeks later Britain was at war, and this season of the Proms was cut short as the BBC Symphony Orchestra was evacuated from London.

Proms programmes from the Queen’s Hall era are prized by music lovers and collectors of concert and theatre memorabilia.

Did you know?

• The Proms were founded by Henry Wood and Robert Newman at the Queen’s Hall in 1895.
• The Queen’s Hall was destroyed by an incendiary bomb in May 1941, and the Proms moved to the Royal Albert Hall.
• The BBC took over running the Proms in 1927.

SKU: T01366