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History question re: Lyric Hammersmith in London

Posted by:	Guillaume 11:37 am EDT 04/01/14

I read in John Mortimer's autobiography this morning about his close friendship with Harold Pinter which began when they both had plays on a programme of one acts at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in the 1950s. He said he enjoyed that theatre much more in its original location surrounded by traffic before it was dismantled and rebuilt piece by piece down the road. I was curious about the original location, so went to google, then to the Lyric website, and was surprised to find that the theatre is a handsome opera house which has now been encased in a new concrete facade in a shopping mall. I'm wondering if anyone knows the original location on King Street for the opera house before it was moved and rebuilt in Lyric Square?

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