The view above shows Oxford Street as it
enters St. Peter's Square. Off to your right stands the Prince's
Theatre, standing out in yellow with a green awning in a row of reddish
buildings. If you stand on this spot today, the view
is quite different. The
site
is
occupied by the rather monumental
Peter House designed by Amsell and Bailey and built in 1958.
The Prince's Theatre was designed
by Edward Salomons, the architect of the Reform Club on King Street.
The arrow in the image below
points at the theatre.
Below you can see a plan of the site at
the end of the 19th Century.
The theatre can be glimpsed
again off to the left of the image below.
Below is an interior view.
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Prince's Theatre Programmes
1932
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1937
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1938
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1938
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The building was destroyed in the
Manchester Blitz and the remanants of the building were
demolished. Below you can see an RAF aerial photograph taken in
1953 and shown here with the permission of English Heritage. The
red arrow indicates where the Prince's Theatre stood.
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NOTE
The image on this page, shown
with
the permission of the Theatre's Trust, comes from the Trust's
archive. The copyright of the image is not clear so if you are
aware of a copyright claim I would be grateful if you would inform me
and I will remove it.
