Bertie Crewe
Theatres

Bertie Crewe

Section Title: Theatres
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Theatre	Location	Build Date	Original Seating Capacity	Screens	Status	Notes

Royal Court Theatre	London	1888	642	As sub to Walter Emden. Next to the Metropolitan railway station (now Sloane Square tube).

Theatre Royal	Lincoln	1889	475	Refurbished	Reopened after refurbishment 2010

Olympic	London	1890	Demolished	With W.G.R. Sprague

Theatre Royal	Aldershot	16 February 1891	700	Demolished 1959	With W. G. R. Sprague

Euston Theatre of Varieties	Euston	26 December 1900	1,310	Demolished 1960	With Wylson & Long. In use as a Cinema from the mid-1930s to 1950, then renamed the Regent Theatre

Sadler's Wells	London	1901	Fifth theatre demolished 1996	Remodelled

Liverpool Royal Hippodrome	Liverpool	1902	4,000	Demolished 1984	The first of the Barrasford halls. The ceiling was painted by Secard, depicting flying cupids upon beds of clouds.

Hippodrome	Brighton	1902	2,000	Alterations	Frank Matcham converted a skating rink into a circus in 1901. When Thomas Barrasford bought the Hippodrome in October 1902 he called in Crewe to replace the circus ring with raked stalls seating, add boxes where the animal entrances has been and extend the apron with a new orchestra pit in front

Lyceum	London	1904	2,000	New Auditorium	Built behind Samuel Beazley's original facade and portico

Pavilion	Glasgow	1904	1.499	Now renovated, the theatre is a remarkable original survivor as a commercial theatre. Built for Tom Barrasford.

Palace	Gorbals, Glasgow	1904	2,000	Demolished 1976	Cine-variety from 1914, sold to H Maitles. Bingo from 1962

Theatre Royal	Bury St Edmunds	1906	Alterations	Designed by William Wilkins it opened on 11 October 1819. Redesigned by Crewe in 1906.

Sheffield Hippodrome	Sheffield	23 December 1907	Demolished 1963	One of several large Hippodromes opened by Tom Barrasford in direct opposition to Oswald Stoll, then managing director of Moss Theatres

Royal Hippodrome	Belfast	1907	1,156	Demolished, now the site of the modern extension of the Grand Opera House, Belfast and Fitzwilliam Hotel	Became cinema in 1935, Odeon in 1961, and New Victoria Cinema in 1974. Bingo Hall in approx 1987 with occasional theatre use.

Nottingham Hippodrome	Nottingham	28 September 1908	The last Hippodrome to be erected by Thomas Barrasford

Hippodrome	Plymouth	1908	Destroyed by bombing and fire in 1941	Remains purchased in May 1958 by Plymouth Council for £4,000, building demolished

Oldham Palace	Oldham, Greater Manchester	1908	2,380	Demolished	Built for Walter de Frece, his wife Vesta Tilley performed on the opening night, and in 1915 it played host to the only pantomime undertaken by Gracie Fields.

Hoxton Hall	London	1909	Internal Alterations	Built 1863 by James Mortimer, now an Arts Centre

Kingston Empire	Kingston upon Thames	1910	Converted to a pub and offices in 1956	With C J Bourne. Converted to a cinema in 1930, with Neon lighting was introduced to light the dome, the second theatre in the country to do this (the first being the London Coliseum) Sister theatre to Aldershot Hippodrome.

Shaftesbury	London	26 December 1911	changed to the Shaftesbury in 1963	Originally Prince's, it opened with the play The Three Musketeers

London Opera House / Stoll	London	1911	2,660	Demolished 1958, became site for an office block.	Designed for Oscar Hammerstein in 1912, sold to London Opera House Ltd (a newly formed company) in 1913, transformed into a cinema by Oswald Stoll in 1916.

Empire Burnley	Burnley	1911	1,200	Auditorium reconstructed	Built 1894 under G.B. Rawcliffe. Converted to a cinema in 1938, now a Gala Bingo

The Hippodrome	Aldershot	3 February 1913	1,000	Demolished 1961	Partly refurbished, it reopened fitfully until about 1960

Golders Green Hippodrome	Golders Green	1913	3,000	Sold, controversially, to El Shaddai International Christian Centre.	Former home of the BBC Concert Orchestra

The Holme	Regent's Park	1911	Private House	First villa to be erected in Regent's Park. Designed in 1816-18 by Decimus Burton aged 18 for his father, James Burton.

Palace Theatre	Manchester	1913	1,955	Auditorium Reconstructed. Now leased to Ambassador Theatre Group	Built in 1891 by Alfred Darbyshire & F B Smith as the Manchester Palace of Varietie. The first computerised box office system in Europe was installed.

Palace	Redditch	1913	399	£3.6M refurbishment and extension	Relatively small, it was used as a Bingo Hall from 1954-1971. Purchased by the council, converted to a theatre

Coliseum Theatre	Dublin	1915	3,000	Destroyed in the Easter Rising of 1916	With R.F. Bergin

Théâtre Mogador	Paris	1919	1,800	Since the nineties the Théâtre Mogador is also used as a concert hall	1913 Sir Alfred Butt leased an area in Paris. Built after World War I in the year 1919.

Birmingham Hippodrome	Birmingham	1899	1,817	Internal Changes	Originally the Tower of Varieties and Circus, it is still a theatre as the Birmingham Theatre

Piccadilly Theatre	London	1928	1,400	With Edward A. Stone as a private theatre for Edward Laurillard. Interior decoration by Marc-Henri Levy and Gaston Laverdet

Phoenix	London	1930	Designed with Giles Gilbert Scott and Cecil Masey, with Theodore Komisarjevsky as Art Director. Hosted the opening production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, starring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Adrienne Allen

Saville	Covent Garden	1931	1,426	Converted to a twin screen cinema in 1970, now a quad screen	With Leslie Scott Slaughter. Builders were Messers Gee, Walker and Slater and it was designed by architects T.

New Bedford Theatre	Camden	1898	1	Demolished	Closed 1950

Capitol Cinema	Southgate, London	1935	1	Demolished September 1982	Odeon opened on 16 October 1935 with Edward G. Robinson in "Passport to Fame"

Century Cinema	Kings Cross	1900	1	Demolished	Closed on 4 April 1968 with David McCallum in "The Heroin Gang" and Deborah Kerr in "Eye of the Devil". Purchased by Camden Council, an extension to the Town Hall was built on the site

Southend Hippodrome / Gaumont Cinema	Southend-on-Sea	1909	1	Demolished 1958	Converted into a cinema in 1933, modernised in 1956 and demolished two years later, a supermarket was subsequently built on the site

Olympia Theatre	Shoreditch	1889	2,170	1	Demolished 1939	Assisted by W.G.R. Sprague

Victoria Theatre	Salford	1900	3,000	1	For sale by Palatial Leisure Limited	Grade II listed, a bingo hall from 1973, closed 2008

Regal Cinema	Kennington	1932	2,000	1	Presently boarded up, it is to be converted to flats, 2006	With Henry G. Kay, consultant for Duchy of Cornwall estate: Louis de Soissons.

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The Palace Theatre was built in 1913 in Redditch.

final_sentence: The Palace Theatre was built in 1913 in Redditch.