Embassy Theatre, Peterborough, England - 20080125

The Embassy Theatre is a historic structure on Broadway in the city of

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

, which operated as a cinema from 1953 to 1989.

History

The Embassy Theatre was designed by

David Evelyn Nye David Evelyn Nye MBE was a British architect, born in 1906, who practised in Surrey, England. He was best known as a cinema architect, having designed many picture houses in the 1930s for the Shipman and King cinema circuit. He was a committ ...

in the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style and built by The Demolition & Construction Co. of

Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi ...

using the locally produced Fletton bricks. It opened in 1937, putting on performances by well-known performers such as Laurel and Hardy. Nye was usually a cinema architect, and this was his only theatre. However, the building was converted into a cinema in 1953, later becoming the ABC and finally Cannon Cinema. It tripled in size in 1981, before finally closing in 1989.50th Anniversary 1937–1987 Souvenir Brochure
Cannon Cinema, Peterborough, 1987. Since 1996, part of the premises have been occupied by the Edwards bar chain.

References

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