Doncaster Grand Theater, January'12

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Visited with ROYALBOB The Grand, built in 1899, may incorporate parts of the shell of an older (possibly circus) building. As originally built it stood on a prominent site in a shopping street facing the main railway station. Old-fashioned (but comparatively recent) city centre ‘improvements’ have, however, robbed it of any sensible context. It is no longer in a street but on what now looks like the backlot of an inward-looking shopping precinct. It still faces the station but is separated from it by a busy inner ring road which comes so close that it has actually snipped off a lower corner of the stage house. The approach from the station (to the town as well as the theatre) is now by way of a repellent subway. It is a wonder that it has survived at all and it was, in fact, threatened with demolition even after it was listed in 1994.

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Top of Theater (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelseyrebecca98/6784444313/) by KelseyRebecca98 (http://www.flickr.com/people/kelseyrebecca98/), on Flickr

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Stage (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelseyrebecca98/6784453143/) by KelseyRebecca98 (http://www.flickr.com/people/kelseyrebecca98/), on Flickr

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