Crouch End Hippodrome

The ill-fated Crouch End Hippodrome, originally the Queen's Opera House, was a theatre that once stood in the middle of Topsfield Parade on the western side of Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London.

The venue opened on 27th July 1897 as the Queen's Opera House with the smash-hit musical comedy, The Geisha. The venue had originally been conceived as a space for public meetings and the like and was to be opened as the Crouch End Athenaeum, but commercial pressures led it being reimagined as an entertainment venue.Flouch, Hugh, The Christeys of Crouch End, HOL, 2023 It was transformed into a variety venue when it reopened in 1907 after a three-year closure following a bad fire. Marlene McAndrew, Lost Theatres of Haringey, Hornsey Historical Society, 2007 Later it was a cinema before being damaged by bombing during the Second World War and subsequently demolished apart from the front which still stands in Topsfield Parade.The Crouch End Hippodrome, Tottenham Lane, Crouch End. arthurlloyd.co.uk Retrieved 25 December 2016.

Crouch End Hippodrome

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