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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.

Anna Lind and the Hall’s archive volunteers

Who built Saltmarket?

When
Tuesday 17 November
Times
Doors 18:30 · starts 19:00 · ends 20:15
Where
The Vestry, talks, Vestry Talks
Tickets
£6
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The wharf workers who paid for the chapel, from the subscription book of 1867.

The chapel was paid for in pennies: 1,140 names in a subscription book that turned up in a loft in 2021. The archive volunteers have traced a third of them, to the wharves, the maltings and the salt store that gave the street its name.

With photographs from the restoration, and time for questions and memories.

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 Who built Saltmarket?
Everyone£6
Friends of the HallFree

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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.

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