Hippodrome

The St Helens Hippodrome was opened in 1902 as the Empire Palace Variety Theatre, on the site of the 1893 People’s Palace. The architect was J A Brown from St Helens, and the terracotta work is by the Bispham Hall Terracotta Company of Orrell. The bricks were supplied by the Withnell Brick Company of Chorley. Converted to a cinema in the 1930s, the building is now in use for bingo.