Theatre Royal, Aldershot

[8] The music hall star Albert Chevalier played the theatre in My Old Dutch in 1908 followed shortly after by George Robey, Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss, Fred Karno and a repeat visit by Charlie Chaplin.

[10][11] The English Opera Company appeared here in March 1914 in The Bohemian Girl, Il Trovatore, Don Giovanni and Cavalleria Rusticana, among other works.

[6] In 1922 the actor and singer Martyn Green appeared here in a tour of Shuffle Along immediately before joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Aldershot being a Garrison Town, much of the audience at this time was male leading to a number of nude revues being held at the theatre.

Other acts at this time included Tod Slaughter in the melodrama Jack the Ripper, Billy Reid and his accordion band with Dorothy Squires as his vocalist, and Phyllis Dixey in her revue Peek A Boo.

In 1948 Garcia leased the theatre to another management who formed the Aldershot Repertory Company who put on plays there including Pygmalion in 1950 starring Jessie Matthews until their final production, the pantomime Aladdin in December 1952.