A collection of one box of programmes from Brent Town Hall, Wembley, and Town Hall, Wembley, from 1945 to 1976. The name of the hall on the programmes starts to change in programmes from the late 1960s. The name metamorphoses from "Wembley Town Hall" or "Town Hall, Wembley" to "Brent Town Hall, Wembley", due to the creation of the borough of Brent in 1965.

The collection contains a substantial amount of programmes from concerts and performances given by local groups. There are a significant amount of programmes from concerts given by the Wembley Philharmonic Society and the Wembley Operatic Society. Other local groups represented in the collection include the Mill Hill Toc H Music Club and the Brent Symphony Orchestra.

Arrangement:
The programmes are arranged chronologically.

1945 - 1976

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Not Specific

• Brent Symphony Orchestra -
• Mill Hill Toc H Music Club -
• Wembley Operatic Society -
• Wembley Philharmonic Society -

• London [England]
• Town Hall, Brent (was Wembley Town Hall)
• Town Hall, Wembley (became Town Hall, Brent)

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.