Liverpool Empire, Lime Street, Liverpool.
Just to show how good the quality of W & Co's work was.
I think the streak running across the photo is a ghost of a vehicle.
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Potted history.
Opened 15 October 1866 as the New Prince of Wales Theatre, Architect: Edward Salomons of Liverpool and Manchester, assisted by T S Wainwright. 1,556 seats. Proscenium: 29ft. wide x 28ft. high. Manager: Alexander Henderson. Closed by 29 June 1867.
Alexander Henderson had been the manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre in Clayton Square, hence the name and the renaming in 1867.
Reopened 29 July 1867 as the Royal Alexandra Theatre, named after the then Princess of Wales.
Reopened 19 December 1896 as the New Empire Theatre (late Alexandra), after being rebuilt by Frank Matcham. It was said the theatre was so transformed that little remained but the walls and the roof! The glass and iron canopy seen here dates from this rebuild.
Demolished* 1924 and replaced.
*The side wall nearest London Road remains from the 1866 building, with bricked-up windows.
Liverpool Empire, Lime Street, Liverpool.
Just to show how good the quality of W & Co's work was.
I think the streak running across the photo is a ghost of a vehicle.
www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/36616966213/in/photost...
Potted history.
Opened 15 October 1866 as the New Prince of Wales Theatre, Architect: Edward Salomons of Liverpool and Manchester, assisted by T S Wainwright. 1,556 seats. Proscenium: 29ft. wide x 28ft. high. Manager: Alexander Henderson. Closed by 29 June 1867.
Alexander Henderson had been the manager of the Prince of Wales Theatre in Clayton Square, hence the name and the renaming in 1867.
Reopened 29 July 1867 as the Royal Alexandra Theatre, named after the then Princess of Wales.
Reopened 19 December 1896 as the New Empire Theatre (late Alexandra), after being rebuilt by Frank Matcham. It was said the theatre was so transformed that little remained but the walls and the roof! The glass and iron canopy seen here dates from this rebuild.
Demolished* 1924 and replaced.
*The side wall nearest London Road remains from the 1866 building, with bricked-up windows.