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Palace Theatre Of Varieties

  • Theatre ID
    78
  • Built / Converted
    1906
  • Dates of use
    • 1906: Until when not known.
  • Current state
    Fragmental remains
  • Current use
    disused (Outer walls remain)
  • Address
    Botchergate, Carlisle, Cumbria, England

Details

Plain brick, gabled front with arched windows - of no merit, and hidden behind a row of shops with access through a passageway. Interior originally had two balconies. No other description yet found. It became, for a time, a United Services Club and was later gutted (? in the 1970s) to form a 4-screen multiplex. Outer shell remains, now (2004) disused and boarded up.


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  • Other names
    Palace Talkies, New Palace
  • Events
    • Alteration: n.d. converted to four-screen multiplex
      • Unknown - Architect
    • Owner/Management: later: Star Cinemas
    • 1906 Use: Until when not known.
    • 1906 Design/Construction:
      • Owen & Ward - Architect
    • 1906 Owner/Management: Palace Theatres (Carlisle) Ltd
    • 1909 Alteration: minor alterations
      • Unknown - Architect
    • 1909 - 1912 Owner/Management: Palace Theatres (Carlisle) Ltd; Frank Macnaghten, lessee and manager
  • Capacities
    • Later: 1912: 1600
  • Listings
    • Grade Not listed
  • Dimensions
    • Stage dimensions: Depth: 10.05m (33ft) Width: 18.28m (60ft)
    • Proscenium width: 9.14m (30ft)
    • Height to grid: 15.23m (50ft)

Of the period

Stalls at The Hippodrome, Bristol, 2001
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Ceiling at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 1993
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