Gaiety Theatre
Park Crescent Place, Brighton

Ginnett's Royal Circus marked on the 1885 map..

operated 1897-1900

• Opened on 31 October 1876 as Ginnett's Royal Circus, also called the Hippodrome. It has a 50ft diameter ring and can reportedly seat up to 3,000 people. A smaller building, the New Grand Olympia, is built next to it.
1897 or perhaps as early as 1891, it becomes the Gaiety Theatre, under the management of J & F Abrahams. Along with melodramas, music hall bills include Professor Lear's Kinematographe, a moving picture music hall act also known as Professor Lear's Eragraph, Bioscope and Bio-Tableaux, using a standard projector.
1898 Now owned by George Evans and Fred Dunkin, who also own the Eden Theatre (see Grand Cinema Theatre).
1900 It closes.
• The site, which is almost opposite the building that becomes the Arcadia, was bought by the Fryco mineral water company, which remained here until 1930. There are now flats (Devonian Court) on the site.