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from a duplicate article:
I don't believe that the word "amid" appears on the Hall. My suspicion is that a contribtor has plagiarised the text from the Victorian London website http://www.victorianlondon.org/buildings/alberthall.htm and in doing so has perpetuated an OCR scanning error (or deliberate mistake) from that site.
Surely the first part of that quotation comes from the King James Version of 1 Chronicles 29:
29:11 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
And if we can find a source other than Victorian London (or a contributor with a good pair of field glassses?) presumably the article should give the full text of the other inscription; which is some variant on...
"This Hall was erected for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and for the works of industry of all nations, in fulfilment of the intentions of Albert, Prince Consort. The site was purchased by the proceeds of the great Exhibition of the year 1851. The first stone of the Hall was laid by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, on the 20th day of May, 1867, and it was opened by Her Majesty the Queen on the 29th day of March, in the year 1871."
-- Lang rabbie 01:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that, while this page does reference the line from " A Day in the Life", it does not mention the Beatles concert at the Albert Hall in its concert list. This needs to be fixed, especially because of the importance of the Beatles as a band and the fact that they made reference to the hall in a very influential song. This refrence is very hard to understand if you do not know that the Beatles played a concert there. -- I Am The Walrus 02:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Twice today the full name of the hall has been truncated. I appreciate that it's not in common use, but that really is the full name so there needs to be good reason for removing it. I also severly trimmed the info on guided tours as Wikipedia is not a travel guide. David Underdown 12:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
It may originally have been conceived as a general arts venue, but is it not almost solely now a music venue? Gustav von Humpelschmumpel ( talk) 10:21, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
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How exactly do you judge this. I live in the UK and know the Royal Albert Hall but you can not claim it to be one of 'the most treasured and distinctive buildings' because it would only be along with hundreds of others, I could say this about Christ's Church, Oxford or the Tate or the National Gallery etc etc. Has some survey found this information? I'm not saying it isn't distinctive or treasured, I just don't see the revelance. I may not have argued this very strongly but I thought I should mention it, in case any one more eloquent agrees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.11.198.174 ( talk) 19:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
While it is certainly a unique and impressive structure, I would not have been able to recognize it prior to reading this article. Neither could the handful of my fellow, poor ignorant souls that I tested with the image. Perhaps because we are from another part of the world. I'm deleting the statement. I'm not going to add a request for citations, and I pessimistically expect a zealous revert. Please don't take it as an attack against your national heritage. 74.2.191.66 ( talk) 20:59, 14 November 2011 (UTC)Robert
"Dylan actually did close his European tour on 26 and 27 May and of that year; these were his last concerts before Dylan got into a motorcycle accident and became a recluse for a brief period of time".
Might these sentences be improved? For example: "actually did close". Does this mean "closed his European tour at the Royal Albert Hall"? If not then what is the relevance to The Royal Albert Hall?
The style of English could be simplified in the second sentence "got into", could be replaced with "had".
The information about the motorcycle accident has a full entry in the Bob Dylan Wikipedia article. The following paragraph about Creedence Clearwater Revival is covered in the Wikipedia article on that group.
Do either of these paragraphs merit inclusion in the Wikipedia entry for the Royal Albert Hall? Would a reference to the relevant articles where they are recorded be sufficient? Braeburn8 ( talk) 23:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
The article currently states: "Proms concertgoers, particularly those who stand, are sometimes described as "Promenaders", but are most commonly referred to as "Prommers".[14]" A single reference to book is given, but the text cited does not claim that "Prommers" is more commonly used, it merely makes use of the term (once).
A quick Google search shows that '"Promenaders" "Albert Hall"' gets twice as many hits as '"Prommers" "Albert Hall"'. This backs up my own experience that they are more commonly referred to as "Promenaders". The claim that they are most commonly referred to as "Prommers" seems extremely POV, and the reference does not support it.
Unless anyone puts forward any valid arguments for the term, I'm going to modify it to remove the "most commonly referred to" section. 86.7.21.237 ( talk) 13:19, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
i am reading this and wondering why this is haveing so many concrets listed. this aritcle is about the bulding and not about all this groups. i am taking out sections explaineing all about the groups and each concert everyone has. this information is maybe intersting but is beter for aritcle of each group or may be in List of famous concerts in royal albert Hall. not here please. 70.153.208.164 ( talk) 23:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I amm doing my usual wikignoming and something that crops up from time to time, as I am sure you are aware, is the "size of the Albert Hall". Rightly you have the linear dimensions but not the volume. I have asked the same at WP:CONVERT and Talk:List of unusual units of measurement and the frmer, for which I am peripatetic, so far suggested the latter, but I ask here simply because it is kkinda annoying, encylopaedically, if someone lists something as twice the size of the albert hall or enough water to filll the albert hall in an hour etc. The albert hall obviously being a standard unit of measure
Its volume by secondary source is thus::Atwood, Robert (2006), Bears Can't Run Downhill, and 200 Dubious Pub Facts Explained, Ebury Press, p. 124,
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help) "According to official figures provided by the Royal Albert Hall's management — the horse's mouth itself {— the volume of the auditorium is between 3 and 3.5 million cubic feet, so that's between about 85,000 and 99,000 cubic metres." I appreciate this is a somewhat jocular style, but so is the whole book as you may imagine, and I think stands if there is no better. I am also having a go at some of the other units there, since many can be sourced if someone bothered (which I intend to) otherwise it is just hearsay and OR.
I am an inclusionist so am not standing on OR etc etc but I know I can source many of these where no source is there now, and the "size of the albert hall" usually means its volume, not its linear dimensions which are there precisely in the article, and so thi really is by way of a courtesy to say if it is an "unusual" unit of measure, and I am sure that word was chosen very carefullly, it woould be handy to know what an albert hallsworth is.
BTW I think it is a magnificent building and I have had many good proms nights there.
My best wishes Si Trew ( talk) 01:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
The "First Ever Performance" and Postcard pictures appear to be irrelevant to their captions, and are nothing to do with the Hall at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.232.212 ( talk) 02:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been rubbing my eyes and trying (but failing) to convince myself that the OS 1:25000 map does not show the Royal Albert Hall (along with the RGS, Royal College of Music and much of Imperial College) lying within the City of Westminster, not the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. If I am correct this seems to have gone unnoticed by Wikipedians editing this article, South Kensington, Albertopolis, etc. Can someone else have a look and confirm this please? Pterre ( talk) 10:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
I think there needs to be some clarity on what events should be added. The Hall has been open since 1871, 141 years. There are now over 350 events a year. There have been probably nearly/over? 50,000 events in its history. There doesn't seem to be much value in listing events. People seem to add events by artists or groups of those that they have an interest in. This means eventually we would have a list a mile long, as different strokes for different folks goes. I have been developing the regular events section as I feel this is of more value for the article. Perhaps an article should be made for events at the RAH, but again, I don't think lists have much encyclopaedic value. Any comments? KlickingKarl ( talk) 01:22, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
The events section claims that the hall has hosted over 150,000 since its opening. Working at one event a day this would take it 410 years, so I find this unlikely unless there have been some days where it has hosted several thousand 'events'. Is someone able to make this any clearer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.217.175 ( talk) 07:54, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
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"Q&A" exchange from the Guardian pages. I though that they might be relevant to the RA Hall:
[Janek123] Didn't the tiles on the Albert Hall get over cleaned?
[retiredarch] As I understand it, the RAH was in a very poor state in the 1970s and by the time work could start on cleaning, repairing the exterior and stopping the rain getting in, the Tories had control of the GLC.
The Tory run GLC of the late 1970s was all about cutting costs, downsizing and selling off anything and everything (they were one of the first to start selling council housing).
I was told by a former GLC architectural employee, that the Tories did not want to spend fees on expert consultants to advise and oversee the work on the RAH - they wanted to make some sort of political statement and get it done on the cheap. The work was apparently delegated to an inappropriate unqualified character who had no idea what they were doing.
The terracotta tiles and brickwork on the RAH were cleaned by sand blasting because it was the cheapest and quickest method. Unfortunately, it also removed the surface glaze from the terracotta and exposed the core of the tiles. The building should have been cleaned using low pressure water trickling over the surface - a slow and expensive process.
To save a few pounds, the Tory GLC administration succeeded in vandalising one of their most prized assets.
[1] 5.80.70.154 ( talk) 09:59, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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In the photos, I see there is a large statue of Albert in front of the building with 2 seated women on the pedestal. The article does not mention this, only the different nearby Albert Memorial. This American, for one, would like to know more about it. -- rogerd ( talk) 04:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 1988. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.91.203.113 ( talk) 19:09, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
It didn't last more than 8 months or so, but still, should be in the article. one RS: https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2016/january/8-july-1971-mott-the-hoople-and-the-royal-albert-halls-rock-and-roll-ban/ 50.111.55.131 ( talk) 14:31, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
What is it? kencf0618 ( talk) 05:45, 18 September 2020 (UTC)