Recently when the rketeh of the A.D.C's history was "being drawn up for the souvenir programme of its 200th production, difficulty was experienced in placing the site of the Lyceum Theatre prior to. its ing burned down in the Into sixties, Previous programmes meittioned" that it wax situated Gnyomen Road, but curiously: enough none of the mapx of th eign hax had confess that he had never heard of it, although he remembered the old theatre perfectly and. it desteuction by fire. Further inquiries have been prosecuted on the subject, but vatory. There is a reference to it in the Municipal Report. of 1866, and there is no doubt that it ix the pret Yuonmingyuen Road, for the burnt down theatre has been identified as having been there, a fact corroborated by the existence for long of a row of amall houses going by the name of Lyceum Terrace, At Jany rate Gnaomen Road, and what ver i became Vu ower, while the ming yuen ' Rond wae known ax Mukoumn me "Gnaomen," how:
Ne, for the "x preceding does not give it the appearance of a Chinese any ing. like properly romanized by tainly do so, suggesting the system that those go by who make se of such abellings ax "Nygankin™ (which others, including 0 Yomanize as One of the most interesting suggestions that has been put forward ix that it may have been a perverted name for Yamen Road—yamén being possibly an equivalent for Cone sulate, In those days, however, there was a Consulate Ron namely, the present Peking Road, while all the cother thoroughfares were known by different names from those current to-day, 'There were Park Lane, Bride' Street, Church Street and x0 forth, and mes Were conspicr whence. So why.
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