Tameside Hippodrome
- Theatre ID1055
- Built / Converted1904
- Current stateExtant
- Current useTheatre
- AddressOldham Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, OL6 7SE, England
Details
Plain, red brick façe, typical of Alley, with sparse yellow brick relief and broad gable, remodelled and part-rendered when the theatre became a cinema in 1933. Canopy altered at the same time. The original frontage incorporated two shops. Previously a three-tier auditorium with boxes, but auditorium completely reconstructed in 1933; clean lines with one balcony, in plain Art Deco style. Stage retained with dressing rooms and stage facilities. Altered foyers; former cafeteria at circle level now a theatre bar. The adjacent Palais de Danse, also a Broadhead house, was constructed later than the theatre. The Pavilion Cinema in Old Street, located almost to the rear of the property, was also part of the Broadhead empire.
- Other namesEmpire Hippodrome, New Empire, ABC, Tameside Theatre
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Events
- 1904 Design/Construction:
- J J Alley - Architect
- 1933 Alteration: converted to cinema; auditorium and foyers redesigned; removing balcony and boxes; organ installed
- Drury & Gomersall - Architect
- 1935 Alteration: facade redesigned
- Drury & Gomersall - Architect
- 1976 Alteration: refurbished; organ removed
- Unknown - Architect
- 1983 Alteration: refurbished
- Unknown - Architect
- 1904 Owner/Management: Broadhead Circuit, owner (on death of William, to Percy, son)
- 1934 Owner/Management: Union, taken over by Union Circuit, and later ABC, owner
- 1964 Owner/Management: EMI (as part of take-over), owner
- 1975 Owner/Management: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, lessees
- 1983 Owner/Management: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, owner
- Owner/Management: Apollo Leisure, lessee
- 1904 Design/Construction:
- Capacities
- Original: 2000
- Later: 1933: 1600 1983: 1262
- Current: 1262
- Listings
- Grade Not listed
- Stage type
- Proscenium Raked
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Dimensions
- Stage dimensions: 1910 Depth: 40ft Width 90ft 1983 Depth: 12.19m Width SL: 9.84m SR: 10.7m
- Proscenium width: 1910: 35ft 1983: 10.59m
- Height to grid: 42ft
- Inside proscenium: 100ft








