Does anyone remember the Century Theatre? It visited Accrington but I'm not sure if it was just the once, when I visited, or on a regular basis. It's a long while ago and the memory's a bit dim.
It was a mobile theatre in a big dark blue caravan which unfolded to make a proper theatre. It would have been on Ellison's Tenement I guess along with all the other vans that accompanied it.
I must have gone probably in the late fifties and I saw The Rose and the Ring based on a story by Thackeray. I think I might still have the programme somewhere! That was probably my first experience of theatre going and I have enjoyed particularly since then theatre in small spaces perhaps thanks to that early experience. I have memories of visiting the Century Theatre again but possibly a lot later in Preston perhaps rather than Accy.
I've been trying to find out more on the www and apparently it was put together in 1947 from wartime trucks etc to bring theatre to places without permanent provision. Was in Keswick for a while after it stopped touring and apparently is still going as a theatre at a museum in Leicestershire.
Theatre by the Lake History
Snibston Century Theatre - History
Anyone remember what I'm on about?