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Here is today's Mancunian Way: by BETH ABBIT - Wed Aug 10, 2022 Hello and welcome, In its heyday, audiences would pack out Hulme Hippodrome to watch acts like Harry Houdini, Desmond Dekker, Gracie Fields and Shirley Bassey.
Music halls like the Hippodrome dominated entertainment in the early part of the 20th century. The Theatres Trust say the venue is one of several that made ‘a significant contribution to working-class entertainment’ as part of the Broadhead Circuit, which ran 17 venues in the north-west including Morecambe’s Winter Gardens.
But the future of this iconic Manchester building is uncertain. And its fate currently lies in the hands of a controversial religious charity, a London property owner and a real estate company.