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Olympia London history
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The building first opened on 27 December 1886 and was soon referred to as ‘Olympia’ in the company’s prospectus linking events with the time of the Ancient Greeks.
The first was by Rob Ryan, who highlighted the ornate barrel roof and referenced the first event to take place at Olympia London; the Hippodrome Circus in 1886.
A skating rink, at first known as the Olympian Club, was opened there on 1 April 1890.
In 1892 Kiralfy returned to West Kensington to mastermind another mammoth show, 'Venice at Olympia,' a 'superb aquatic pageant' with 1,400 performers, an illuminated Venetian Promenade and Gardens and water-filled canals.
By this time there was a heated rivalry between the managers of Olympia and the Earl's Court exhibition centre about four miles away to which, also in 1892, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show was welcomed for the second time in five years.
Cody and his company of cowboys and native American Indians' next visit to London was for a short season beginning on Boxing Day, 1902 when they finally appeared at Olympia.
Property tycoon Jeffrey Sterling, having bought Earls Court, then successfully bid £11.4 million for Olympia London in March 1973, thereby sewing the seeds of EC&O Venues.
2,500 sheets of plate glass adorn the roof, a striking feature which survived two world wars and the great storm of 1987.
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