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Empire Theatre, Liverpool, interior, 1934

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Archive reference 11518-1

View of a large ornate stage with the curatins closed from the back of the balcony seats. A large chandelier hangs from the ceiling. Nobody is on stage or in the seats.

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The Empire Theatre, which opened in 1925, was built on the site of an earlier theatre.