London Hippodrome Theatre 10 Cranbourne Street, London
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Built for the Moss Empires Ltd. chain of variety theatres, and located on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Cranbourne Street in the heart of London’s West End theatre district at Leicester Square.
The London Hippodrome was opened on 15th January 1900 with a spectacular named “Giddy Ostend”. It was designed by noted theatre architect Frank Matcham as a circus, with a central circus ring that also contained a huge water tank containing 100,000 gallons of water for aquatic spectaculars.
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