Elizabeth Line: behind the barriers at Tottenham Court Road
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With the Elizabeth Line/Crossrail project due to open to passengers next
week, here is a sneak preview of what's behind the barriers at the
Tottenham Cou...
3 days ago
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I've oft' been confused about the location of the theatre, and looking at those pictures still can't imagine exactly how it fitted in with the still-existing buildings at the bottom of Tanners Hill. I'll have to have a look again later. I have a 1908 postcard of Deptford Broadway looking in the other direction, with the trams pictured, which I haven't seen a copy of online anywhere - fancy a look if I can find a scanner?
Thanks E, in the bottom picture the building opposite is supposed to be on the corner of the High Street, making the Theatre directly opposite - is that right?
If you have another picture that would be great - maybe email it and I will post it.
So within the space of 18 months, New Cross was graced with two theatres (almost opposite one another) by the two top British theatre architects of the day, WGR Sprague and his one-time boss Frank Matcham: Sprague's Broadway Theatre (opened Dec 1897) and Matcham's New Cross Empire (opened Aug 1899). Proud days!
Not to mention, from the later Art Deco period, the Deptford Odeon
I think was where the sub-Post Office is, a row of shops set back behind a wide area of pavement, with a mural on the wall of the next building west.
The Deptford Marbles, apparently.
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