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____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Theatre Royal, Breck Road, Everton, Liverpool Formerly the Theatre Royal Palace of Varieties / Super Royal Cinema
Above - The Theatre Royal, Breck Road in 2008, whilst in use as a furniture shop - Courtesy K.R.
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The Theatre Royal in Liverpool's Breck Road, Everton was built in 1891 as the Theatre Royal Palace Of Varieties by W. Redman. The small auditorium was built on three levels, Stalls and Pit, Dress Circle, and Balcony and had a capacity of 500. This Theatre Royal should not be confused with the former Theatre Royal in Williamson Square which was built in 1772 by Sir William Chambers and rebuilt in 1802 by Foster. In 1920 the Theatre Royal, Breck Road was converted to a Cinema and renamed the Super Royal Cinema and had many subsequent alterations and modernisations so that in the auditorium of today there is little remaining of the original. The Cinema was later converted for Bingo and then later still, used as a Carpet Warehouse. Currently, in February 2009, the Theatre is in use as a furniture shop and warehouse but planning has been passed for its demolition and the construction of an apartment building on the site.
Above - The proscenium, the circle rail, and some of the original boxes of the Theatre Royal, Breck Road are still visible in this photograph taken in 2009 from above the false ceiling of the present furniture showroom and Warehouse - Courtesy K.R.. |
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Above - The Projection Box at the rear of the circle of the Theatre Royal, Breck Road is still visible in this photograph taken in 2009 from above the false ceiling of the present furniture showroom and Warehouse - Courtesy K.R.. |
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Right - The Foyer of the Theatre Royal, Breck Road
in 2008, when in use as a furniture showroom and store. - Courtesy K.R.. If you have any more information or images for this Theatre you are willing to share please Contact Me Here... |
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'Brother
Victor of the De La Salle teaching order who once taught and lived on
the premises of St. Elizabeth;s School, Breckfield Road South said this:
"At the corner of Breckfield Road South was a cinema (at an earlier
period it had been a “Chinese cinema”) and the screen was
on the reverse side of our Oratory wall. In the evening it was possible
to hear the sound track! We once took the whole school to the cinema
to see “Treasure Island” (with Robert Newton).' - Above
text in quotes is from The Seventeenth Anniversary of De La Dalle Liverpool
1925 -1995. Compiled by Brother Martin Morris - Courtesy Jim Hynes.