Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith) is a theatre off King Street, Hammersmith.

Stage hands at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith (1897)

Later called the Lyric Theatre, it had been redesigned in 1895 and opened by Lille Langtry

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The Lyric Theatre was originally a music hall established in 1888 on Bradmore Grove. Its success led it to being rebuilt and enlarged on the same site twice in 1890 and 1895. The 1895 reopening, as The New Lyric Opera House and designed by theatrical architect Frank Matcham, was accompanied by an address by the actress Lillie Langtry.

In 1966 the theatre was due to be closed and demolished but a successful campaign to save it led to the auditorium being dismantled and reinstalled piece by piece within a modern shell on its current site on King Street a short distance from the former location. The relocated theatre opened in 1979.

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Shepherd's Bush Road, W6
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Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith (2013)
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Horse-drawn cab outside Hammersmith station in Beadon Road (1894) Staffords - the shop next to the station - repaired and sola umbrellas.
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Cambridge Road (now Cambridge Grove) during the Edwardian period. A District Line train is crossing the bridge.
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Carthew Road, Hammersmith (1920s) Carthew Road was originally part of an agricultural area called Bradford Fords This was known for its orchards and vegetable beds in the 18th century and was irrigated by Stamford Brook. The arrival of the Hammersmith & City Railway in 1864 greatly accelerated development and by the 1890s, Carthew Road was fully built up.
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Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith
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Margaret House - an original section of the Caroline Estate built in the early twentieth-century. The London County Council extended the estate in 1953. In the background, you can see a tall red-brick building with prominent chimneys. This was another housing estate, which was owned and run by the Peabody Trust. Previously, the site had been home to the Convent of the Good Shepherd, which closed in 1920.
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Glenthorne Road looking east towards St John’s Church (1901)
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10-16 Grove Mews, c. 1906 Finch & Son occupied 10-11 for several years and expanded to no.9 from 1912.
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Extension of the Piccadilly Line station in Hammersmith Broadway (1930) London Underground proudly announce that the works will relieve unemployment. Beatrice Lillie and Nellie Wallace are billed at the Coliseum in the West End.
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