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Easter Monday 2018. Roupell St, Waterloo - the site of Astley’s Ha’penny Hatch. 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Mr Astley joins artistes and horse from Zippo’s Circus to inaugurate a commemorative flagstone at the Garden of St Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth, London SE1 7EW. The flagstone was proposed and funded by Martin Burton, founder and director of Zippo’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589d6d64725e25b1e05ca840/1540240497052-O6THF4NQY50SYC9L6W65/Astley%27s%2BAmphitheatre%2Bcommemorative%2Bflagstone%2Binaugurated%2Bat%2BSt%2BThomas%27s%2BHospital%2B14th%2BSept%2B2018%2B%5BPIC%2BCathy%2BCooper%5D.jpg Stories - The Amphitheatre commemorated at last! 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