Corn Exchange Cinema
High Street,
Colchester,
CO1 1JW
High Street,
Colchester,
CO1 1JW
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This, the first Corn Exchange building was built by David Laing in 1820, but was replaced by the newer Corn Exchange in 1845 to the designs of Raphael and Joshua, now known as the Albert Hall Building. From 1845, the old Corn Exchange housed the Essex and Suffolk Fire Office, before becoming the Corn Exchange Cinema.
Maizie, if you have any memories about the old Rep, I would be delighted to hear them. There is more info on my blog http://colchesteruncovered.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/colchester-repertory-theatre-a-history/ You can contact me on dorian@theatrearts.biz
This venue was never used for roller skating. Roller skating was in the ‘newer’ Corn Exchange (built in the late 19th C) further along the High Street, near to the Town Hall. As the link in the previous comment notes, as ‘The Albert Hall’ this building housed the Colchester Repertory Company which put on a play every week until the new Colchester theatre opened in 1972. I went to many theatre performances there as a child and teenager in the 1950s and 1960s.
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