Then and Now: Old posters and handbills
Archive material from Brixton's past


Empress Theatre Playbill, October 14th 1910
A playbill from the much lamented Empress Theatre of Varieties, demolished in the early 1990s. Prices for evening shows ran from 4d (2p) for a seat in the stalls to £1 1s (£1.05) for the bext box in the house.
(pic: Lambeth Archives)


Empress Theatre, 1938
Program cover from the 'Seventh Anniversary Celebration' programme of the New Empress Brixton Theatre, 12 October 1938.
(pic: Lambeth Archives)

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