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Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent

Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent in England North West, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit
2 h–3 h

About

Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent is a cinema or movie theatre in England North West, United Kingdom. Britain's listed cinemas span Edwardian picture palaces, Art Deco super-cinemas of the 1930s, and the surviving independent neighbourhood houses.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Gordon Theatre was a theatre in Stoke-upon-Trent (a component town of Stoke-on-Trent), in Staffordshire, England. It was subsequently the Hippodrome Theatre, and the Gaumont Cinema.

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Background

History

The original theatre on the site on Wolfe Street, present-day Kingsway (coordinates ) was the Crown Theatre, built in 1897; it was a wooden building seating about 1100, designed by Charles Lynham Beckett. It was replaced in 1900 by a theatre designed by George F. Ward, of Owen and Ward. It was named the Gordon Theatre; the existing hotel opposite the theatre was the Gordon Hotel, named after General Gordon of Khartoum. There was a bust of Gordon over the main entrance of the theatre. The richly decorated auditorium, seating about 2000, comprised stalls on the ground floor, with boxes, dress circle and balcony above, and gallery over. The theatre opened on 12 March 1900 with the musical The…

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Coordinates
53.0045, -2.1831

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Where is Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent?
Gaumont Stoke-on-Trent is in North West England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.0045°, -2.1831°.