"Wartime Opera- Music and Entertainment at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, England, UK, 1943" An elderly man sits on a stool outside the New Theatre on St Martin's Lane, London. The original caption explains that stools can be hired for 6d and used to keep a place in the queue for tickets to performances until about 30 minutes before the show begins. Tickets cost 3/6 in the pit and 1/6 in the gallery. A large poster advertising the Sadler's Wells Opera Company's residence at the New Theatre can be seen on the right of the photograph.