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Grand Theatre, Peter Street, Manchester
Also known as the Grand Theatre of Varieties / Palladium.

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The Grand Theatre in Peter Street, Manchester was built in 1883 by Edward Garcia as a conversion from a former Circus building.

The Theatre was less successful than Manchester's other Variety Theatres and in 1916 it was converted into a Cinema by reconstructing the interior and changing the Balconies to make the auditorium smaller.

In 1924 the Theatre was furthur converted, this time into a Church when the Balconies were divided and the backstage and FOH areas were converted for business use.

In the 1970s the Facade was demolished and replaced so that now you would be hard pressed to know that there was ever a Theatre there in the first place. However it is apparently still possible to see some parts of the 1916 Cinema and a few remains of the original Theatre such as the balcony fronts, part of the proscenium, and some of the stage, in the present Church.

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