Victoria Music Gallery, Bengamin Lang bronze theatre ticket:
Obv: VICTORIA HOUSE head of Queen Victoria within wreath; inscription flanking trophy of musical instruments.
Rev: +BENJN LANG+ VICTORIA MUSICAL GALLERY NEAR MANCHESTER OLD CHURCH

One proprietor who overstepped the mark and lost his licence was Ben Lang, who ran the Victora Music Saloon at the Trafford Arms at the top of Deansgate, next to Victoria Bridge. After he had been fined a few times, he lost his public house licence in 1843. Ben obtained a beerseller's licence, continued to run the music hall for another twenty years and regularly tried to get his spirits licence back, but he never did.

Victoria Music Hall (Ben Lang's). Victoria Bridge
Manchester 31 July 1868
False alarm of fire, 23 persons crushed to
Death in endeavouring to escape from the Building.
Axon's Annals p 316

Sold Jan 2015