Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]
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The Fall Of Wolverhampton Hippodrome
Wolverhampton Hippodrome was formerly the old Empire Palace Theatre But what caused the fall… of the old Wolverhampton music hall? The tragic loss of this majestic Queen Square icon happened sixty-two years ago this week. The Wolverhampton Hippodrome framed through the arch of the Queen Arcade, shortly before […]
Read moreJanuary, 14th 1958 – The Cat & The Hippo
On This Day – January, 14th 1948 Pantomimes at both the Grand Theatre and the Hippodrome were at their most popular just after the war. The Cat & The Hippo And the show at the Hippodrome at Christmas 1947-48 “Puss in Boots” was extra special. You had two for the price of one. […]
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