It was opened in 1886 in a building that had previously been constructed as an Exhibition Hall in 1851.
It was later converted into a cinema before closing in 1964.
[1] In the interwar years several plays premiered there prior to West End runs including Dorothy Brandon's 1923 hit The Outsider.
[2] The following year Sutton Vane's Falling Leaves was first staged at Folkestone.
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