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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Alexandra Music Hall, Glasgow Later The Bijou Picture Palace
Above - A drawing of the Front Elevation of the Alexandra Music Hall, Glasgow, which was situated above the main entrance to Theatre Royal in Cowcaddens - Courtesy Graeme Smith.
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The Alexandra Music Hall was built in 1867 for James Baylis as part of his Theatre Royal complex at the head of Hope Street, Cowcaddens, and could hold 700 people. (It is not to be confused with the Alexandra Theatre further down Hope Street opposite Gordon Street which operated in the 1860s.) In the 1880s the Hall staged performances of the Glasgow Amateur Dramatic Society and later, when owned by Howard & Wyndham Ltd, at the end of the 1890s cine-variety held sway organised by Arthur Hubner, whose performers also appeared for him at the Britannia Panopticon, and the Paisley Empire Music Hall. The Hall operated as the Bijou Picture Palace until the late 1920s. STV demolished it to add new stores and offices when they bought the Theatre Royal and started Scottish Television there in 1957. The above text was written by Graeme Smith and kindly sent in for inclusion on the site in 2009, and is from his new book 'THE THEATRE ROYAL: Entertaining a Nation', Details here... |
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