Gateshead, High Street, Queen's Theatre

HER Number:
7874

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, High Street, Queen's Theatre

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Music Speech and Dance Venue

Site Type: Specific:
Theatre

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The first permanent theatre in Gateshead. It was a chapel in 1815, then a music hall, boxing hall, Salvation Army hall (1882), Royal Theatre (1887, the Queen's (1894) and the New Hippodrome Cinema (1919). In 1891 seven children were crushed to death during a scramble to escape after a false fire alarm. The theatre was damaged by fire in 1922 and a Woolworth store was built on the site.

Easting:
256

Northing:
631

Grid Reference:
NZ256631

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, p 68