The Carlton Theatre, Corner of Saltley Road and Nechells Place, Birmingham

Later The Birmingham Coliseum

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Above - The Carlton Theatre, Birmingham - From an illustration in the Playgoer of 1901 / 1902 - Courtesy Iain Wotherspoon.

The Carlton Theatre on the corner of Saltley Road and Nechells Place, Birmingham was designed by Thomas Guest who also designed the Alexandra Theatre, Hull. The Theatre was built at a cost of £14,000. The Theatre opened on the 16th of July 1900 with a Variety performance including Chas. W. Poole's Grand Myriorama; the Boer War and Pekin and the Boxers, The Pooleograph, The Three Clifton Brothers, Mephisto, Reed and Lerne, The Moxon Family, Woodee Wonders, Tibbot's Living Marionettes, The Archilles, The Three Almos, Patter and Pate, and Bowker Andrews.

The auditorium was built on three levels, Stalls and Pit, Dress Circle, and Gallery, and also had six boxes.

The Theatre had a change of name in 1911 to the Birmingham Coliseum but ten years later in 1921 it was reopened as a Cinema.

The Carlton Cinema closed in the 1940s and was subsequently demolished. A Fabric Warehouse now stands on the site.

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