Friday, September 18, 2015

Dancing! Dancing! Dancing! April 1855

Camp Buildings Beechworth, A J Stopp, c 1870?  State Library of Victoria Collection http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/68990

ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Dancing ! Dancing! Dancing!
M LANGFORD, proprietor of the Beechworth Hotel, begs to inform the inhabitants of Beechworth and its vicinity, that he has rented the above rooms, with an intention of making it into a  
Dancing and Musical Saloon,
which will be opened on
MONDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1855.
It is being fitted up in the best possible style, Messrs. Griffiths and Co. (Harp and Violin players) are engaged as musicians, and the lovers of really good music singing, and dancing, will have an opportunity afforded them unequalled in the district.
Doors open every evening, from half
past 6 to 12 p.m.
N.B.-There will be an entrance from the Assembly Rooms to the Billiard Room, which will enable persons who are fond of this game likewise to amuse themselves.
Beechworth, March 30, 1855.

Advertising. (1855, April 14). Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic. : 1855 -1918), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113013315

The Harp player was most likely George Zeplin, who often accompanied George Griffith.