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THEATRES  |  ALHAMBRA THEATRE

CLOSURE

Updated:  29 September 2011 

The final closure of the Alhambra Theatre, in Tavistock Street, Devonport came suddenly around 6pm on the evening of Tuesday April 22nd 1941.

Apparently the actor Mr Bransby Williams was due on stage that fateful night but on his way to the Alhambra he stopped off at the Lifeboat Public House to "warm up" for the first house at 7.30pm.  

Unfortunately, Hitler's bombers had got to the Theatre first and the it was not there any more.  It is said that this was the first time in his life he had ever missed a performance.

So sudden was the enforced "Final Curtain" that the Theatre was still advertising in the Western Evening Herald on the evening of Wednesday April 23rd 1941.

 

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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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