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The Builders

The company that built the Palace was G C Huins and
Co and it seems they retained a financial interest as
late as 1947, two apparent members of the family being
cited in the financial returns; Sidney L Huins as a
Extract from
Director of the theatre company with about 250 shares,
Redditch Arts
and Nellie Louise Huins being a major share holder
Council Newsletter
holding some 650 out of a total of 3,500 shares issued.
July 1969
The theatre was upholstered in excellent taste by
Messrs Wolff and Hollander based in London.
‘The Palace Theatre
was built at the time
The Palace Theatre used to be a Cine-Variety house when the theatrical
which meant that it combined films and variety touring system, with
entertainment on the bill.
its circuits of No.1
houses, No.2 houses
and No. 3 houses was
still in function.
Previously, theatrical
companies visited the
Public Hall in Church
Road.

Otherwise, Redditch’s
theatrical needs had
been by various “fit-
up” theatres. there
were several of these
portable, canvas-and-
timber structures on
the move, but the best
known locally was
A photograph of the workers at the Palace “Jennings’s theatre”,
Theatre, Redditch outside the Theatre the year it under the direction of
was built, 1913. the redoubtable Mrs
Courtesy: Paul Hughes.
Jennings, which used
to take up its stand in
the yard of the Fox
and Goose Inn, later
the Royal Hotel.’

Source: The Needle District Almanack and Trade Directory 1919-20

1913
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