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D20923. The Grade II* listed Hackney Empire was opened in 1901 and is a splendid example of a late Victorian theatre. It was originally a music hall and many of the stars of the day performed there.
With the decline in theatre audiences in the post World War II period, it became a TV studio in the 1950s and then became a Bingo Hall in 1963. In 1984, however, it became a theatre once again, but narrowly avoided demolition in 1986.
It closed temporarily for a major refurbishment in 2001, reopening in 2004.
Full details can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_Empire
Wednesday, 26th December, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Greater Anglia Stadler Flirt class 745107 passes Hackney downs on a Liverpool Street to Stanstead Airport service .
EartH (ex Savoy / ABC Cinema), Stoke Newington. The balcony area (now known as the Theatre - the sound desk in the centre used to be the main entrance to the circle. Designed by W R Glen for ABC, and opened as the Savoy in October 1936. It became the Konak Cinema in 1977 and the ACE in 1982 before closing in 1984. The stalls area was subsequently divided off as a snooker hall, and the balcony area was abandonded. In 2014 the snooker hall was transformed into a function area and in 2018 the cleaned and stabilised (rather than restored) balcony re-opened - both known as EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) with a mixed programming including stand-up, music and films. The balcony area is now known as EartH Theatre and the stalls EartH Concert Hall, the former cafe and circle foyer is EartH Kitchen - cafe bar open during the day.
London Borough of Hackney, North London, UK - EartH (Former Savoy / ABC Cinema), Stoke Newington Road.
March 2019
Best viewed in large .
Lovely bit of background:
"It is an awe-inspiring experience to enter this impressive church. Sometimes known as the Cathedral of the East End (although Stepney folk would argue that Dalston isn’t in the East End at all!) it is the biggest parish church in London, towering over the surrounding substantial gothic style houses. Surveyor of the Manor of Hackney, Chestor Cheston (Jnr.) was the architect of the church consecrated in 1870. The impressive tower was added in 1877-80 by E.L.Blackburn. The builders were Dove Brothers of Islington who are still in business today. Bridget Cherry describes the tower as a piling on of ‘Teulonesque effects with its ‘boldly striped upper part, the octagonal top with circular turrets and large gargoyles clustered around a stumpy gabled spire’ (S.S.Teulon was the 19th century architect of among other London churches St. Stephen’s Hampstead. Pevsner described him as ‘impressive’ but ‘hamfisted’). It possesses implanted in its side a working barometer, unique in Europe.
John Betjeman describes the interior as aglow with ‘scalding glass’. Over the years its Victorian character has been carefully preserved, particularly by the previous incumbent over many years, the colourful and controversial Rev. Donald Pateman. The Parish Magazine for Spring1985 carried the following full-page imprecation:
In 1945 A.Hitler was DEMOLISHED
In 1985 A.Scargill is being ROUTED!
SO MAY ALL THINE ENEMIES PERISH, O YAHWEH"
Maine Avenue and Boardwalk – Atlantic City, NJ (1989)
The building shown in this shot was built in 1965 replacing the original restaurant destroyed by fire in September 1963. Unfortunately the restaurant did not endure the changing city and times -- Hackney's eventually closed.
D20917. The Grade II* listed Hackney Empire was opened in 1901 and is a splendid example of a late Victorian theatre. It was originally a music hall and many of the stars of the day performed there.
With the decline in theatre audiences in the post World War II period, it became a TV studio in the 1950s and then became a Bingo Hall in 1963. In 1984, however, it became a theatre once again, but narrowly avoided demolition in 1986.
It closed temporarily for a major refurbishment in 2001, reopening in 2004.
Full details can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_Empire
Wednesday, 26th December, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
D20916. The Grade II* listed Hackney Empire was opened in 1901 and is a splendid example of a late Victorian theatre. It was originally a music hall and many of the stars of the day performed there.
With the decline in theatre audiences in the post World War II period, it became a TV studio in the 1950s and then became a Bingo Hall in 1963. In 1984, however, it became a theatre once again, but narrowly avoided demolition in 1986.
It closed temporarily for a major refurbishment in 2001, reopening in 2004.
Full details can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_Empire
Wednesday, 26th December, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
D20919. The Grade II* listed Hackney Empire was opened in 1901 and is a splendid example of a late Victorian theatre.
It was originally a music hall and many of the stars of the day performed there. With the decline in theatre audiences in the post World War II period, it became a TV studio in the 1950s and then became a Bingo Hall in 1963.
In 1984, however, it became a theatre once again, but narrowly avoided demolition in 1986. It closed temporarily for a major refurbishment in 2001, reopening in 2004.
Full details can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_Empire
Wednesday, 26th December, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
From the roof of a student accommodation block under construction I was working on.
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