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Saltmarket Hall
A speaker at an oak lectern in the Vestry with thirty people listening and a photograph of the river projected on the wall.

Dr Helen Marsh

The river trades

When
Tuesday 8 December
Times
Doors 18:30 · starts 19:00 · ends 20:15
Where
The Vestry, talks, Vestry Talks
Tickets
£6
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Salt, malt and coal: the wharves outside the door, 1800 to 1960.

A historian of the city’s river on what came up and down it, and why the wharves went quiet.

Tickets

Book online, by phone or at the box office. No booking fee; we never sell above face value.

Box office 01632 960418

Ticket prices for The river trades
Everyone£6
Friends of the HallFree

Tickets on sale now.

Before you come

Everything about your visit
When do the doors open?

At 18:30, for the foyer, the bar and The Vestry. Seats are unreserved unless it says otherwise.

How long is it?

It starts at 19:00 and ends at about 20:15.

Is there a bar?

The Yard bar opens with the doors and through every interval: local beer and cider, wine, soft drinks and coffee. You can take drinks into the Nave in our glasses.

Can I bring children?

Yes, to anything without an age on its page. Under-fives come free to the Sunday at Four concerts and the family mornings, sitting on a lap.

What if I arrive late?

We let latecomers in at a suitable break, to the back of the hall or the gallery. For theatre that is the interval.

Where you’ll sit

The Vestry

Two tall windows onto the river, a brick wall and a good piano. Our talks happen here, and so do most of the city’s choir rehearsals.

  • 60 seated rows
  • 24 boardroom
  • 40 long tables
The Vestry set for a talk: sixty wooden chairs in rows, an oak lectern and two tall arched windows with morning light.
The foyer and box office, where you come in.

Also this week

Close on a string quartet playing: bows, hands and the scroll of a cello in warm stage light, the players turned away.

Sunday 29 November, 16:00

Cello and piano

Iris Mardell and Tom Akers. The Nave, £14