There had been a Wine Cellar beneath the theatre since the first Theatre Royal was built on the site in 1774, and it survived until the third theatre was demolished in 1902 to make way for the fourth and final theatre on the site. The bar was known as Bragg's because it had been run by two generations of the Bragg family during the nineteenth century.
A cropped version of this image was reproduced on page 56 of Richard Southern's 1970 book, 'The Victorian Theatre - a Pictorial Survey', although he is likely to have sourced the image from either the archives of the Drama Department at the University of Bristol or from Birmingham Reference Library, as credited in the acknowledgements of the book.
This is part of the Series: THR01/01 Theatre Royal and Bragg's Wine Cellars, Birmingham, circa 1901-1902; within the Collection: THR01 Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Source: Historic England Archive
Georgian Theatre, Victorian Bar (Licensed), Victorian Wine Cellar, Victorian Theatre, Food And Drink, People
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