1902

This #State Theatre tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by State Library of New South Wales collection One of the loveliest theatres built in Sydney, it had played Ben Hur, complete with a dangerous, racing treadmill and backdrop for the chariot race, and was then closed for the outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney. It was rebuilt and re-opened by 1903, only to be demolished about thirty years later for a …