It’s the Theatre Royal in Hyde, which we discovered purely by chance yesterday when we parked near the town centre.
It opened on November 3 1902, doubled up as a cinema from 1914 and with the end of live performances in the early 1970s became a cinema with a second opening up inside in 1972.*
In 1999 planning permission was in the process of being granted to demolish the place when a local group began a campaign to save it.
And while they were unsuccessful in their bid to acquire the building it became a listed building in 2002.**
It was bought by a developer in 2005 and according to the big yellow sign is up for sale as I write.
Picture; Theatre Royal, Hyde, 2015, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Theatre Royal, Hyde, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Hyde
**Historic England, http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1380212
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