Theatre Royal, Breck Road

• Theatre ID
  1882
• Built / Converted
  1888
• Dates of use
  • 1888 - 1920
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  converted to other use (Retail - carpet showroom)
• Address
  Breck Road, Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

Details

The theatre was built with pit, dress circle, balcony and boxes, with fibrous plasterwork to the circle, box fronts and other areas. It has a proscenium stage and six dressing rooms. A drama theatre, presenting variety for some years before returning to drama. Various extensions were added, together with modernisations over its forty years as a cinema before conversion to bingo. The building today in its disused state retains some older fabric. Architecturally modest. The façe seems to be mainly of the cinema era. A brick flank wall with terracotta dressings may be earlier. The auditorium was extended and re-roofed for bingo. Little of the theatre interior remains.

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• Other names
  Theatre Royal Palace of Varieties, Super Royal Cinema
• Events
  • Owner/Management: Later: ?
  • Alteration: n.d. auditorium enlarged
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1888 Owner/Management: Thomas Montgomery, owner
  • 1888 Design/Construction:
    • Mr C Townsend - Consultant: Scenery
  • 1888 Design/Construction:
    • W Redman - Architect
  • 1888 - 1920 Use:
  • 1920 Alteration: converted to cinema
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1920 Owner/Management: W Gordon’s Circuit
  • 1932 Owner/Management: Regent Circuit Ltd
  • 1933 Owner/Management: Regent Enterprise Ltd, owner
  • 1938 Owner/Management: Southan Morris Associated Cinemas Ltd
  • 1954 Owner/Management: Essoldo
  • 1965 Alteration: converted to bingo
    • Unknown - Architect
• Capacities
  • Later: 1910: 506
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed
• Stage type
  • Proscenium
• Dimensions
  • Stage dimensions: 1910 Depth: 28ft Width: 35ft
  • Proscenium width: 1910: 20ft
  • Height to grid: 1910: 50ft