 C. Z. Barnett's adaptation, "A Christmas Carol; or, The Miser's Warning" played in 1844.Richard Shepherd, who succeeded Alfred Bunn in 1848, remained at the theatre until 1869 and established its reputation for 'rough-and-tumble' transpontine melodrama.On 29 January 1865, during the last scene of the pantomime "Richard Coeur de Lion", a fire began above the chandelier.