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From 1801, Thomas Edward Barker set up a rival [[panorama]] to his father's in [[Leicester Square]], at 168/169 Strand. On the death of Robert Barker, in 1806, his younger brother, [[Henry Aston Barker]] took over management of the Leicester Square rotunda. In 1816, Henry bought the panorama in the Strand, which was then known as Reinagle and Barker's Panorama,<ref name=":0">Sherson, Erroll, ‘Lost London Playhouses’, ''The Stage'', 28 June 1923, p. 21. One of a series of articles later published in a book of same name in 1925.</ref> and the two panoramas were then run jointly until 1831. Their building was then used as a [[English Dissenters|dissenting]] chapel and was purchased by [[Benjamin Lionel Rayner]], a noted actor, in 1832.<ref name=Stage>''From Stage to Platform: The Metamorphosis of the Strand Theatre 1830&ndash;1905'', Paul Hadley (London Passenger Transport 1984 No. 12 April, pp. 588-593)</ref>