A Grade II listed building, designed by Lewen Sharp. It was the venue for the first British production of Harold Brighouse's very English comedy 'Hobson's Choice', which curiously had its world premiere in New York.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Apollo Theatre
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The wonderful Spitalfields Life published a map on the East End Suffragette activities. And London Historians has a post 'Parliament and Votes for Women'.
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