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# William Terriss and the Adelphi Theatre Standing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre on Maiden Lane, you're at the precise threshold where William Terriss's glittering career came to its shocking end on a foggy December evening in 1897. For decades, this grand Victorian playhouse had been Te...

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Stage Door, Adelphi Theatre, Maiden Lane

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William Terriss 1847-1897 hero of the Adelphi melodramas met his untimely end outside this theatre 16 Dec 1897