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12th May 2020

Brush up your Shakespeare 1934 style !!

Shakespeare at the Hippodrome 1934 style. In 1934 Sir Oswald Stoll put on a spectacular season of Shakespeare plays at the Manchester Hippodrome on Oxford St. Amongst the plays staged were Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice , Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, ‘The Tempest‘ and ‘As you Like It‘. I love the fact that in...

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16th April 2020

Ballet and performing pigeons on the same show!!

George Formby In 1932 George Formby topped the bill at the Manchester Hippodrome on Oxford St, by then he was well on his way to world wide fame when he signed a recording contract with Decca Records. One of the 1st records he made in July of 1932 was ‘”Chinese Laundry Blues‘ all about Mr Woo. Interestingly enough in December...

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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...

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24th June 2018

The Hippodrome Theatre

This theatre was on Oxford Street, Manchester and when it closed in 1935 it became a famous Manchester cinema ‘The Gaumont’ which had the equally well known ‘Gaumont Long Bar’ , sadly that closed in 1974. Below is a short you tube clip of the actual theatre in its heyday. The programmes for this theatre are so beautiful that...

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Brush up your Shakespeare 1934 style !!

Ballet and performing pigeons on the same show!!

Another Opening, another Show 1904 at the Manchester Hippodrome

The Hippodrome Theatre