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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The file on the Surrey Theatre was
compiled by Lyn Mitchell and Henry
Jacoby. Henry Jamieson offered the file
to CATHS-V and provided rich
anecdotes from his days in and near
the theatre. Jo Maxion checked the
facts on the PRO files.
Public Records Office/Melbourne
Archives Centre: Surrey File
7882P1/1028/8776

Surrey Theatre
142 Union Rd. Surrey Hills
Corner Union Rd. &
Croydon St.
Architect: Clive Lord
20 Queen Street,
Melbourne
Builder: L. E. Rossiter
Surrey Hills
Owners: Dimmick, Long, L.
Rossiter and R. Mitchell
1939 –1950
Victoria Theatres/
Consolidated Theatres.
1950 – 60
Council
Approval: 8 May 1939
Heating: Six gas units (Taylors)
Opened: 3 Sept 1939
Seating: 770, reduced to 762
in 1955
Closed: 22 Oct. 1960
Lil Abner Peter Palmer
The Big Night Randy
Sparks

* In the suburbs Consolidated Theatres Ltd.
controlled the Broadway Elwood, Kinema Albert
Park, Mayfair Dandenong, Orient Heidelberg,
Plaza Northcote, Surrey Surrey Hills, Village
Toorak, Victoria North Richmond.
In Horsham they controlled the 20th Century
and the Horsham.

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