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The Empire Teatre Southport
Does anhyone know where this was? According to an rticle in last weeks Champion newspaper Winston Churchill gave a speach there in 1909/1910
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The only one i can think of was part of the Winter Gardens....B&M Car Park now....
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Did it eventually become the Scala when Kingsway was built?
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Originally Posted by
maisie
Does anhyone know where this was? According to an rticle in last weeks Champion newspaper Winston Churchill gave a speach there in 1909/1910
The Winter gardens is correct. Built 1874,never achieving its full potential(quoting from a book).
An interesting incident occurred in December 1909 when a speech by Winston Churchill in the main hall was loudly interrupted by suffragettes who had hidden in the building beforehand,and for several minutes there was a state of high disorder.
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Originally Posted by
shirazsue14
Did it eventually become the Scala when Kingsway was built?
Spot on! It also was known as the Albert Hall for a while before eventually becoming the Scala.
Do you think that's really wise?
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Thank you so much I knew someone on here would know
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We had a fantastic thread on here a couple of years ago all about the Winter Gardens with some fantastic photos, mostly courtesy of Quackerz.
Do you think that's really wise?
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I have fond memories of pantomime at the Scala in the 50s & early 60s.
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Apologies for the confusion! That particular information was taken from an article in the Examiner from 1910
Hope you're all enjoying the column!
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Before the Cheshire Lines/Ribble Bus Station was demolished in the late 1980s it was still possible to see rings in the wall at the back of the Tudor carpark where they used to chain the elephants up in the days of the Winter Gardens Zoo. If only I'd taken a photo of them, one always presumes quite wrongly that things like this will always remain.
Do you think that's really wise?
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Originally Posted by
JimmyCowan
Apologies for the confusion! That particular information was taken from an article in the Examiner from 1910
Hope you're all enjoying the column!
I am enjoying reading your column but I think it should have been made clear that the Examiner was an Australian nespaper. I did call into the library the other day and read the report in The Southport Visiter Dec 1909.
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Originally Posted by
maisie
I am enjoying reading your column but I think it should have been made clear that the Examiner was an Australian nespaper. I did call into the library the other day and read the report in The Southport Visiter Dec 1909.
The Examiner still is an Australian newspaper. However I must admit to being at a loss to understand what interest a small provincial Northern Tasmanian newspaper would have had in Southport, in 1910.
Just be yourself, no one else is better qualified!!
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Originally Posted by
shirazsue14
Did it eventually become the Scala when Kingsway was built?
Originally Posted by
Sgt Wilson
Spot on! It also was known as the Albert Hall for a while before eventually becoming the Scala.
It was also called The Pavillion before becoming The Empire.
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