Playhouse Gallery

Five-year-old Denise Holmes and her sister Nicola, two, now have a windmill at

Five-year-old Denise Holmes and her sister Nicola, two, now have a windmill at the bottom of their garden at Littlehampton, Sussex. It was made as a play house for them by their father, carpenter Victor Holmes, who used wood from an old fence that had to be taken down. The girls are now waiting for their father to make some furniture, scaled to match the eight-foot-high mill.
20th April 1959

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Regent Theatre Hanley NWC01_01_0211

Regent Theatre, Piccadilly, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. A view from the stage looking out on the auditorium of the Regent Theatre, where a group of people is gathered, showing the ceiling dome above
The Regent Theatre opened in February 1929. In 1950 the cinema was renamed the Gaumont Cinema, and in 1976 it became the Odeon. The cinema closed in October 1989 and remained unoccupied until the mid 1990s, when it was renovated before reopening in 1999. The renovation work included enlargement of the stage and alterations to the auditorium. The proscenium arch was removed and repositioned, and the dome was altered; this photograph shows the dome after renovation and has therefore been dated to post-1999

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Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton

Promotional postcard for Tantalizing Tommy by Paul Gavault and Michael Morton, adapted from La Petite Chocalatiere by Paul Gavault. (Theatre de la Renaissance, Paris, 23rd October 1909). First produced at the Playhouse, 15th February 1910. Artist: John Hassall. For Lyn Harding and Sidney Coopers Co, touring to Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich, 27th March 1911. Date: 1911

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library