A theatre with a novel exit strategy
BUILT as a variety theatre for the theatrical impressario Oswald Stoll, the Shepherd's Bush Empire is seen here in September 1953 just before its closure and conversion into the BBC Television Theatre.
View ArticleBlast from the past
50 years ago: November 11, 1960 BONFIRE NIGHT DAMAGE WORSE THAN EVER
View ArticlePopular West End play comes to town
A PERFORMANCE of See How They Run was staged at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith Road, in the week commencing February 28, 1949.
View ArticleWhere music hall legends trod the boards
THE Granville Theatre of Varieties, Walham Green was the brainchild of four theatre people, including Dan Leno who, having managed two other theatres thought it might be interesting and profitable to...
View ArticleThe 19th century Lyric becomes a pile of rubble
THE Lyric Theatre, Bradmore Grove, Hammersmith, is pictured on June 19, 1972, during its demolition.
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50 years ago December 2, 1960 CHILD WHO LOVED LIFE TRAGEDY overtook a Fulham family for the second time in eight years when Julie Lillian Burman, 10, of Fulham Court, died in Great Ormond Street...
View ArticleDancing in the 'luxurious and charming' limelight
OUR picture shows a dance competition, to the music of Lou Prenger and his band, at the Hammersmith Palais in 1949.
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50 years ago December 16, 1960 WHY WAS A WAR VICTIM REFUSED MOTOR? ASKS MP
View ArticleOpen emotion on streets at news of King's death
WOMEN were seen openly weeping in the streets when the news of the death of His Majesty King George VI reached Fulham, on Wednesday morning (February 6, 1952).
View ArticleGirls had their hearts set on a good night out
CHARMING smiles for the cameraman from five Fulham girls who were employees of Osram GEC.
View ArticleChanging the name was a piece of cake
A SLICE of iced cake for each of the 350 pupils was just one of the ways in which Star Road Secondary School celebrated its new name - Queen's Court Secondary School for Girls - in February 1955.
View ArticleComedy play that deserved a bigger audience
THIS is a scene from a production of Britannia of Billingsgate, performed in the town hall by East Fulham Labour Party Drama Group in 1955.
View ArticleBlast from the past
Fifty years ago: OFF-FORM Fulham are a club with an outsize serious headache.
View ArticleDeputy Mayor's laud of the dance
MORE than 500 people watched a display organised by Fulham youth committee at Fulham Baths in March 1955.
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