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When I saw a photo of the inside of the Royal Albert Hall, I thought right away that it looked like the Colosseum.
A screenshot of the packed Hall. This was an event called “Ultimate Irish Music.”
Colosseum interior. Photo by Douglas Pearson/Corbis.
According to Wikipedia, designers Fowke and Scott were “heavily influenced by ancient amphitheaters.”
Royal Albert Hall: exterior. It looks like a cross between the Pantheon and the Colosseum!
The Colosseum in its evening dress of lights.
Linnet Moss 
Yes, it does look like the Coliseum in Rome. But people didn’t lose their lives here only one I know of and he was a fictional character at the end of Alfred
Hitchcocks’ masterpiece “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” Doris Day screamed and…
Yes, thank goodness the English didn’t go in for *that* kind of entertainment, although they seem to have held sporting events there, from time to time.
but, do we still “know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”?
I don’t know, but I know the Beatles played there!
Very true!
one of my favourite London buildings, that is from the outside 🙂 It is fun to spend there a few concerts every summer during the Proms but the acoustics are ghastly, it’s much nicer just to look at 🙂
Ah, too bad about the acoustics, I didn’t know that. Next time I come, I need to do Victorian London and see the V&A as well as the Albert Hall.
oh the V&A is a gem, a museum i can never get enough of and a lovely place to take coffee or tea in their garden 🙂 and i’m quite partial to the museum of science and the nature museum all close by 🙂
Yes, I would like to have tea there. And examine their room of miniature paintings. Lots of lovely things.