Here he remained ten years, producing numerous dramas, farces and burlesques, among his successes being The Bonnet Builders' Tea Party at the Royal Strand Theatre; Jenny Foster, the Sailor's Child and Jessie Vere, or the Return of the Wanderer, two dramas each in two acts, produced in 1854 and 1856 at the Britannia Saloon, where they had long runs; and Waiting for the Verdict, first given at the City of London Theatre.
Hazlewood wrote mainly for the Britannia and Pavilion Theatres, and is said to have been paid at the rate of about fifty shillings an act, with something extra for a very successful piece.
He was the most prolific contributor of plays to the Britannia and his sources ranged from recently published novels and serialisations in such journals as The Family, The Herald and Bow Bells to juvenile literature, popular paintings and newspaper reports.
[2] He died at 44 Huntingdon Street, Haggerston, London, on 31 May 1875, aged 52, leaving two children, a son, Henry Colin Hazlewood (lessee and manager of the Star Theatre, Wolverhampton) and a daughter.
: Mary Price, Phillis Thorpe, Jerry Abershaw, Lilla, the Lost One, Our Tea Party, The Black Gondola, Trials of Poverty, Blanche and Perrinette, The Eagle's Nest, Lost Evidence, The Jewess of the Temple, The Traitor's Track, Life for a Life, The Forlorn Hope, Happiness at Home, Cast Aside, Aileen Asthore, The Lightning Flash, French Girl's Love and Inez Danton.