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The Todmorden Hippodrome opened as a live theatre on October 9, 1908 with “Two Lancashire Lasses in London”. Seating was provided for 1,500 in orchestra stalls, pit and balcony areas. By 1911 film interludes were part of the programme and by 1917 movies had all but taken over.

The externally plain red brick building is located slightly outside the town centre and this has probably aided its survival. Inside there is attractive Edwardian Baroque style plasterwork on the front of the balcony and around the proscenium arch. The auditorium remains very much as built with the exception that the former ‘pit’ (rear stalls seating beneath the balcony) has been walled off to form a large bar/foyer space for the theatre.

The Hippodrome was the first cinema in Todmorden to present ‘talkies’ which arrived on 17 March 1930 (“Broadway Melody”), it was claimed, at the time, that it was the best installation in the north of England.

Sadly it was the first cinema in the town to close in June 1956. It was then leased to the Todmorden Players and the Todmorden Operatic Societies who still own it. Much renovation work has been carried out over the years and the Hippodrome Theatre is a popular venue for local amateur and small scale professional theatrical productions with seating for 495.

In recent years occasional film shows have been introduced as part of the programming.

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Taken in: UK / England / Todmorden / Todmorden (show map)

Taken on: October 9, 2018

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