Tuesday 29 April 2014

The old Astor Steps


A rear view of the Egerton Arms on High Street. Next to the public house was a theatre which was pulled down in 1904 and replaced a year later by the Empire.

In 1915 it was renamed the Hippodrome which was converted into a cinema in 1951 named the Astor.

In 1965 it burnt down and its last advertised film "A Bucket of Blood" was never shown.

The red-brick wall here contains the remains of some of the steps from the old Astor.

A contribution to Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.

4 comments:

  1. It's always funny to think about how cities are changing over the years. And further back, where there's now city, there once was wild nature... This was a nice photo of the brick wall!

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  2. A Bucket of Blood somehow seems appropriate for a never shown flick in a theatre that met a bad end.

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