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The Prince's Theatre
 The view above shows
Oxford Street as it enters St. Peter's Square.
Off to your right stands the Prince's Theatre,
standing out in yellow with a green awning in a row
of reddish buildings. If you stand on this
spot today, the view is quite different. The site is occupied by
the rather monumental Peter House designed by Amsell
and Bailey and built in 1958.
 The Prince's Theatre
was designed by Edward Salomons, the architect
of the Reform Club on King Street.
The theatre can be
glimpsed again off to the left of the image below. The arrow in the image below points at the theatre.  Below you can see a
plan of the site at the end of the 19th Century.
  Below is an interior view.  **************** Prince's Theatre Programmes 1932       ************** 1937     ************* 1938                 ************************ 1938         ********************* The building was
destroyed in the Manchester Blitz and the remanants
of the building were demolished. Below you can
see an RAF aerial photograph taken in 1953 and shown
here with the permission of English Heritage.
The red arrow indicates where the Prince's Theatre
stood.
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The image on this page, shown with the permission of the Theatre's Trust, comes from the Trust's archive. The copyright of the image is not clear so if you are aware of a copyright claim I would be grateful if you would inform me and I will remove it. |