Little (Southport)

• Theatre ID
  1911
• Built / Converted
  1937
• Dates of use
  • 1937: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre (amateur theatre)
• Address
  Hoghton Street, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 0PA, England

Details

Southport Dramatic Club, formed in 1920, performed in various venues including the Garrick Theatre. When that became a cinema, the club raised funds to build its own theatre in 1937. The theatre is situated behind Victoria House Hoghton Street and is approached through a passageway beneath the east side, which opens into a quadrangle. The theatre is plain, brick built. The foyer houses a box office and stairs lead up to the rear of the well-raked single tier auditorium (430 seats). This has decorated treatment on the walls which curve slightly towards the proscenium which is plain but relieved with white columns on either side with concealed lighting. The ceiling is plain with three plaster troughs, also containing concealed lighting. Stage with fly tower, two traps, with paint frame and workshop space at rear. A rehearsal studio was built in 1966 when an adjoining house was acquired, and sometime later a bar was built.

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• Events
  • 1937 Use: continuing
  • 1937 Design/Construction:
    • Albert Schofield - Architect
  • 1966 Alteration: adjoining property acquired and rehearsal studio built
    • Unknown - Architect
  • Alteration: later bar added
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1984 Alteration: refurbished following fire
    • Unknown - Architect
  • Owner/Management: Victoria Insurance Co, owner?
  • Owner/Management: Southport Dramatic Club, proprietor
• Capacities
  • Original: 430
  • Later: 1948: 400
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed
• Stage type
  • Proscenium
• Dimensions
  • Proscenium width: 38ft