A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save one of Plymouth’s much-loved historic buildings – before it is too late.
Dorcas Media’s sales director, Ian Fleming, who is standing for the St Peter and Waterfront ward in the Plymouth City Council elections on May 4, is leading the campaign for the restoration of Plymouth’s Palace Theatre.
The Victorian theatre, on Union Street, was once the pride and joy of the city, but has fallen on hard times of late. The venue first opened in 1898 as a music hall but was damaged by fire only three months after opening, and was reopened in 1899 as the New Palace Theatre of Varieties.
In 1961, it was converted to a bingo hall, but later reverted to being a theatre as the Palace Theatre until 1983, when it became The Academy nightclub. It finally operated as the Dance Academy, before being closed after Class A drugs were found on the premises.
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