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Dalmatian
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Theatre in Eastwood
« on: Friday 30 October 09 21:38 UTC (UK) »

I am trying to trace the place of employment for my grandfather c 1912 .He was a theatre electrician who came from Nottingham and an announcement of his wedding shows him as from the Empire , Eastwood.Did such a theatre exist in the area at that time?
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Wrights , Pickwells, Booths ,Lincolnshire
Mantles , Nottinghamshire
O'Reillys Ireland , Manchester , Skegness
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Re: Theatre in Eastwood
« Reply #1 on: Monday 02 November 09 10:08 UTC (UK) »

The building is still there - my Granddaughter always called it the "Barbie house" as it has arched windows upstairs

Eastwood Empire was a theatre and cinema - I am not sure when it closed -but it was still  open in 1950's and by early/mid 1960's had closed and became the home of Woolworths (which closed recently) and now houses Heron frozen food centre.

It is situated opposite the post office on Nottingham Road Eastwood.

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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Theatre in Eastwood
« Reply #2 on: Monday 02 November 09 10:35 UTC (UK) »

if you go to

www.picturethepast.org.uk

image no NCCC002482 shows the building when it was Woolworths

image NCCC001930 shows it when it was the Empire Theatre and cinema

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Re: Theatre in Eastwood
« Reply #3 on: Monday 02 November 09 11:01 UTC (UK) »

Thankyou for the help , the pictures were great
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