Heartland
master brummie
There is a a thread on the Snow Hill post that mentions the Metropole, bombed in 1941 and was then demolished. I only recall the YCMA being on this spot.
This building was constructed alongside the towpath of the BCN, and as stated in the Snow Hill Thread had two previous names. It was built as a Music Hall, but the owner also wanted a Theatre Licence, but that was refused by the licensing authorities. W R Inshaw the owner had expended a considerable sum, £15,000, on getting the music hall built. He called it the New Star and it had mirrors that lined the walls. There seems to have been a lack of clientelle and the music hall was closed. Inshaw was bankrupted, but Andrew Melville took over the debts, and spent money on a reconstruction and reopened the hall as Theatre, calling it the New Queens, and later Queens Theatre. About the time Melville died, the theatre became the Metropole.
Previous to the making of the Music Hall, the earlier properties had other uses. For a long time the site there and on the other side of the canal was the Phoenix Foundry carried on by George Jones, iron founder, before he transferred his business to Lionel Street.
For Inshaw to spend such money on the new Music Hall, architects fees were quite high suggesting it was a building of a special design . Are there any images that show it?
This building was constructed alongside the towpath of the BCN, and as stated in the Snow Hill Thread had two previous names. It was built as a Music Hall, but the owner also wanted a Theatre Licence, but that was refused by the licensing authorities. W R Inshaw the owner had expended a considerable sum, £15,000, on getting the music hall built. He called it the New Star and it had mirrors that lined the walls. There seems to have been a lack of clientelle and the music hall was closed. Inshaw was bankrupted, but Andrew Melville took over the debts, and spent money on a reconstruction and reopened the hall as Theatre, calling it the New Queens, and later Queens Theatre. About the time Melville died, the theatre became the Metropole.
Previous to the making of the Music Hall, the earlier properties had other uses. For a long time the site there and on the other side of the canal was the Phoenix Foundry carried on by George Jones, iron founder, before he transferred his business to Lionel Street.
For Inshaw to spend such money on the new Music Hall, architects fees were quite high suggesting it was a building of a special design . Are there any images that show it?