Gatti's

Gatti's, London music-hall. In 1856 the brothers Carlo and Giovanni Gatti, with Giuseppe Marconi, had a restaurant in Hungerford Market. When this was demolished to make way for Charing Cross Station, they used the compensation money to open another restaurant in the Westminster Bridge Road, which in 1865 was licensed as a music-hall. Meanwhile the arches under the new station were being let, and in 1866 the Gattis acquired two of them, which they opened a year later as another music-hall. To avoid confusion it was known as Gatti's-Under- (or In-) the-Arches, the other being nicknamed Gatti's-Over-the-Water or In-the-Road. This was rebuilt in 1883 to hold 1,183 people in two tiers and reopened as Gatti's Palace of Varieties; it was there that Harry Lauder made his first London appearance in 1910. It closed in 1924 and was demolished in 1950. Gatti's-Under-the-Arches was renamed the Hungerford Music-Hall in 1883, and later became the Charing Cross Music-Hall. It closed in 1903 and in 1910 became a cinema. From 1927 to 1941 part of the site was occupied by the Gate Theatre and in 1946 another part of the premises was taken over by the Players' Theatre.

The Gattis also ran a restaurant, the Adelaide Gallery, a former theatre for which they were unable to get a performing licence, and for some years owned the Vaudeville Theatre.