²⁰People, Firms, Places

The complete entity index lists 75 people, 12 companies, 6 places and 35 musical acts. Each entry gives a role, dates where we have them, the facts that name it and the chapters it turns up in. You can sort it by kind, by name or by how many facts an entity carries. It draws on the same records as the rest of the site, so its counts change when the records do, not when this page is edited.

The list is complete on purpose. Most of the people in it never get a chapter of their own: a witness who signed one marriage act, a worker printed only by his initials in a directory or a jubilee notice, a musician billed for a single night. They are here because the sources name them. A history that kept only the principals would be their biography, and this is meant to be the history of a building. A few identities rest on one reading of one clause, a name written once in a crowded hand. Those are marked as waiting for a second, independent reading before they count as settled, and a thin entry is shown as thin.

The index comes in two parts, because one table cannot follow two different privacy rules. Everyone whose record allows it appears in the main entity index, where a living private individual becomes an anonymous placeholder with no name, date, place or relationship. Living people documented in a public role connected with the theatre and music-venue years sit apart in the public-role register. Each is named there only in the capacity the public sources support. The venue's music programmer appears in that role¹, as does the 1989 theatre billing at the address². A later role with no documented link to the years at 169 does not earn a place. Nor is a missing life-status taken to mean that someone has died: the privacy rule decides what each row may show, never a guess.

Three kinds of absence are worth knowing about, so that a gap in the index is not read as evidence.

Living private individuals are kept but never published by name. Their rows exist, and all they show is the anonymous placeholder.

People the sources mention without a full name get no entry of their own and are described only as far as the source describes them. In February 1950 a Van Kleef surfaces by surname alone, a master cabinet-maker working at 169c above the van Duyn shop and advertising for an apprentice¹. In 1928 a household at 169b advertised for a live-in maid who is never named at all. Each is carried exactly as far as the source goes. What we still do not know about them is a question rather than an entry, and the open ones are collected in the resident-gaps note; the fuller account belongs with the first era.

Namesakes we chased and ruled out are not slipped into the index. Someone who shares a principal's name but proved to be a different person is recorded as an excluded match in the false-positives note, alongside the venue era, so the correction stays on file and nobody makes the same mistake twice. The questions the index leaves standing come on the next page.