Imperial Theatre, Corner of Clyde Street and High Street, Bordesley, Birmingham

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Imperial Theatre, Corner of Clyde Street and High Street, Bordesley, Birmingham

Later The Bordesley Palace

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

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

The Imperial Theatre, on the corner of Clyde Street and the High Street in Birmingham's Bordesley district was built at a cost of £25,000 and opened on the 2nd of October 1899 with a performance of 'Sporting Life.

The Theatre was bought by Moss Empires in 1903 who refurbished the building at a cost of £6,000 and reopened it as a Variety House called the Bordesley Palace, with a capacity of nearly 1,300 people.

The Theatre closed down as a live Theatre in 1929 and was converted for Cinema use.

During the war it was used as a food store, but the final curtain came for this Theatre when it was demolished in 1957.

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