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Hippodrome Theatre 1914


winter64

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Does anyone know anything about the Hippodrome on Cambridge Street being used as a hospital in WW1?.
My G G Grandma died there in December 1914 of heart disease, I just assumed that she was on a trip out and had a heart attack but someone said it was a hospital at that time?

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At the end of July 1915 the whole of the Company performing "Don't Crush" at the Hippodrome went to the Wharncliffe Hospital to visit the soldiers there, and perform the show, The orchestra from the Hippodrome were joined by the hospital staff and a very good time was had by all.  So it appears that the Hippodrome remained a theatre at least as at July 1915, and December 1914 was relatively early in the war to need makeshift hospital facilities.

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Thanks Edmund, that's really helpful, I will let the person know who told me it was a hospital at that time 

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