A theatre, designed by John Miller of London, was built on the site on Bore Street (coordinates 52°40′57″N 1°49′42″W / 52.6824°N 1.8283°W / 52.6824; -1.8283) in 1790.
Isabella Mattocks, Edmund Kean and Dorothea Jordan were among the players seen in its early years.
It was refurbished in 1937 and re-opened as the Lido Cinema, when the first film shown was Captain January.
To continue providing entertainment for American troops at Whittington Barracks, it was rebuilt, to the designs of Hurley Robinson, and re-opened in 1943.
[1][3] The building was converted into a supermarket; it was demolished some time after 1991, and a branch of the hardware chain Wilkinsons was built on the site.