Dates

• Existence: 1903 - 1963
• Usage: 1903 - 1904

Biography

The Norwich Hippodrome, originally opened in 1903 as The Opera House, although it was always a variety and music hall theatre. The theatre struggled financial from the onset and by around 1904, the building was brought by Edward Henry Bostock and Frederick William Fitt, who turned it into the Hippodrome Theatre.

Between the 1930s to the late 1950s, the Hippodrome was turned into a cinema, only to become a variety venue again in the late 1950s but by the 1960s the theatre had closed down. In 1964 the theatre was demolished to build a car park.