Wilton's Music Hall is one of London's most atmospheric performance spaces and is often described as the world's oldest surviving grand music hall. Built in 1858, it has passed through lives as a Victorian sailors' haunt, mission hall, wartime survivor and rag warehouse before returning to the stage.
The draw is the combination of live performance and unrestored historic fabric: peeling walls, old balconies and a sense of London entertainment history that is hard to reproduce.