Designed by Frank Matcham. One of London’s most popular variety theatres. Here, in January 1921, the magician P. T. Selbit performed the illusion of "sawing a lady in half" - its first public performance.
The rising popularity of television in the 1950s caused the closure of many theatres including this one. The building was then used as a scenery store until it was demolished in April 1965 and replaced with a block of flats given the appropriate name of Vaudeville Court.
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Finsbury Park Empire Theatre
Site of the Finsbury Park Empire Theatre, 1910 - 1960, home to music hall and...
Magician-inventor, origami pioneer. Born as Ned Williams in South Africa. Came to London aged 20. Credited with introducing origami to this country. Throughout the 1960s he had his own TV show 'Pap...
The first appearance of the Billy Smart Circus was at Southall Park.
Actor-manager. Born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset. Brought up in near poverty and was afflicted with a pronounced speech impediment. The first actor to be knighted. 1878 - 1902 he managed the Lyc...
Actor, dramatist and theatre manager. Born Hereford. Left home and travelled to London with Samuel Johnson. As a friend of the Adams brothers he was in 1772, one of the first residents in their new...
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
The HQ of the United States Army Air Forces moved from London to Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park and then, following the success of D-Day, to France.
This plaque has a shortened version of the text on the old white plaque.
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