Monthly Archive: December, 2019

15th December 2019

The Theatre Royal celebrates Heaton Park Horse Races 1836

Another interesting playbill On archiving the playbills for the Theatre Royal, Manchester I came across a playbill from October 1836 starring the famous Shakespearean Actor Mr Kean. It states that the evening was under the patronage of ‘The Right Honourable Lord R Grosvenor’, Steward of the Heaton Park Races‘ This was so interesting as I’m sure not many of...

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6th December 2019

Another Opening, another Show 1904 at the Manchester Hippodrome

The start of a Great Theatre The Manchester Hippodrome Theatre was situated on Oxford Street, Manchester It was built by Sir Oswald Stoll in 1904 at the princely cost of £45,000, today 2019 this would be about £5 million. On its opening night it was advertised as ‘A Variety Theatre and Circus, staging the most amazing water spectaculars and moving...