Building    From 21/9/1896  To 8/11/1940

Brixton Theatre

Categories: Theatre

Theatre designed by Frank Matcham. It had a capacity of 1,504, and was home to plays, small touring productions, and Christmas pantomimes. It was renamed the Melville Theatre in 1940, but was destroyed in an air raid shortly afterwards. The Ritzy Cinema now occupies the site.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Brixton Theatre

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Brixton Theatre foundation stone

Although not actually named, this lonely, vandalised stone is all that remain...

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People's Palace

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Cecil Edward Worlledge Duncan-Jones

Cecil Edward Worlledge Duncan-Jones

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Biograph Theatre

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Sarah Flower Adams

Sarah Flower Adams

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William Henry Hunt

William Henry Hunt

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1 memorial