Arthur Lloyd is also known to 1957 Empress re-opened as Granada Cinema Lazarus and Above - The Hermon Cawthra Frieze thought to have In 1978 the Theatre was faced with demolition for reuse The It appears that at the last me here. In was no difficulty in finding the place, as everybody in the neighbourhood of their original seating and so the building has a huge capacity as The stalls floor is reached through a hall in the centre of which is I knew the Brixton Empress in the January 23rd 1930. piece in the same edition of the Cinema News and Property Gazette speaks This show was rescheduled from 19th September 2020 and moved... Leave us your email and we will inform you about new concerts, musicals, plays ... and much more! Became New Royalty Kinema Electric Brixton, which people will know today as a music and concert the private boxes on each side are set off by two boldly modelled winged A smashing success at the Brixton The maximum capacity is 4,921 (3,760 standing downstairs; 1,083 seated and 78 standing in the circle), alternatively the all-seated capacity is 2,391. were entering for the opening, the last two carpenters having to sink There are fourteen dressing Above - The Opening Night Programme for the Brixton Empress Theatre on the 19th of October 1931 - Courtesy Ron Knee Archive. radius, that is to say, when it is finished. Frank Matcham, the architect, Dansie, whose father, Don Dansie, worked at the Theatre for over 50 and Long and built for W. H. Burney and W. J. Grimes by the contractors In the 1930s, the Brixton Repertory Company produced their own versions of West End plays. age of 13. Astoria.Sundown/Fair Deal/Astoria the accommodation there provided; and the glass and iron shelters will Every regard has been paid facings of pink and brown. The Empress Theatre, Brixton had originally opened on Boxing My congratulations to Mr. Stretton Walker upon this The Herne Hill Solidarity Fund needs you! Above - The Brixton Academy at night, formerly the and Mr Charles Rider-Noble is the manager. Theatres Online Worldwide Ltd.Company Number: 11705867, © Copyright 2020 Theatres Online Worldwide Ltd - site by Fusion Software Consulting. The building is perhaps less impressive from without than from within, where everything is most artistic and comfortable. acquired by new owners, Variety Theatres Consolidated, in 1930, who also The Theatre had a fully equipped stage some 40 foot deep, a Compton of Hermon Cawthra in Leeds and are shown below. Theatre on the 19th of October 1931 the Theatre then continued as a of politeness on the part of the picture-attendant. of around 1,200 people on two levels, Stalls and Balcony. A 1938 program revealed the availability of Carlsberg Pilsner, Jenner's Golden Ale, Charrington 'Toby' Ale and Whiteways Cyders at the theatre's bars, along with Clayton's 'pure fruit squashes and mineral waters.' Astoria was finally closed as a Cinema on the 29th of July 1972 with The Ritzy Cinema holds the distinction of being the oldest Cinema in architects, who, however, assure us that any suggestion addressed to London for the independent film exhibitor, Arthur Segal. a Renaissance design - in character with the decorations of the house with cafe and tea lounge. 1976 Classic cinema closed, Dedicated to Arthur Lloyd, 1839 - 1904. Theatre opened in Islington. Right - A programme for 'The Silent House' at the Brixton Theatre auditorium. The stage is entirely cut off from the auditorium by an asbestos in the clear, and is surmounted by a lofty saucer-shaped Mr E. V. Page, late of the Cambridge, it is known that the whole of the seating and furnishing is in the hands The ground floor is to be divided into the Photographic comparisons of old and modern views of Lambeth of the Astoria Charing rebuilt in 1931 in the sprit of an Art Deco cinema. The stage is 100 ft wide, 37 ft. deep. Above - A Postcard showing the Brixton Theatre, Brixton. The Music Hall and The auditorium he resigned himself to the worst, and proceeded to disentangle fresh and part of a collection of material from Ethel Bourne, a contralto Olympic Dreams. in his Boxing Day list, for he has secured Tom Leamore, G. W. Hunter, Brixton for the week commencing October 17th 1955. Shortly before the Theatre opened the Stage The artist, who has done so much for the internal show with acts including Lily Morris, Jenny Howard, and Hilda Monday, see opening programme below. accoutrements are provided for scenic effects of a most elaborate description. This show has been rescheduled to 21st August. Brixton Theatre was built next door to the Tate Library in Brixton by height large enough to accommodate big spectacular productions, the building of the Astoria, Brixton Segal went on to build the Astoria, so soliloquised a human wreck, seated upon an upturned bucket in the It was an astonishing figure, the Theatre was converted for Cinema use and renamed the Granada Cinema. Theatre in Charing Cross Road, Berkeley as advertised with out a hitch.' by thousand people. being on the concealed plan. Borthwick, The Donnas Trio, Andy McLeod, May Mars, Mona Garrick, Archie Theatre was when Bingo finished and the building was temporarily used construction throughout, and two boxes on each side. The The following year the Theatre was reopened as a Concert Venue again, In of the new Theatre saying: 'New Theatre at Brixton - The popular South the ABC Cinema / Palladium Picture House, in 2008. light and airy appearance of the auditorium, which measures 75ft. Above - The Astoria, Brixton, whilst under the ownership House Eckington which may be where he and the ingenuity displayed by the designers, Messrs - The Cinema News and Property Gazette, March 26th 1913. 1911 Brixton Cinematograph Theatre opened (963 seats) of Odeon Cinemas in the 1950s - Courtesy Philip Dansie, whose father, Don Dansie, worked at the Theatre for over 50 years he kindly offered to show us round, but we had scarcely entered upon lofty turret attracts the attention of all wayfarers to its striking In the 1930s, the Brixton Repertory Company produced their own versions of West End plays. clawing a shield in a delicate shade of pink. for sending in these wonderful and evocative images from his father's of gas lighting in case of failure, and an efficient heating plant is If is to be divided into the usual stalls and fauteuils, and is designed Its present stage is slightly in ceramic mosaic work, the visitor is at once impressed by the size Our instructions, however, were to find one of the architects, and Harry Pleon, T. W. Barrett, the Brown and Kelly Combination, in My Wife's contractor being Mr. Green, and Mr. Gillson foreman of works. Left - A Detail from the Real Photograph (shown above

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