Theatre Royal Tudor/Arundel Street

[Person6]

I'm trying to find out when the Theatre Royal, which stood at the junction of Tudor Street and Arundel Street ( now in front of The Crucible) was demolished.

I know it was destroyed by fire but the shell of the building was still standing in December 1935. How soon after was it demolished?

[DUFFEMS]

I'm trying to find out when the Theatre Royal, which stood at the junction of Tudor Street and Arundel Street ( now in front of The Crucible) was demolished.

I know it was destroyed by fire but the shell of the building was still standing in December 1935. How soon after was it demolished?

 

According this on Picture Sheffield it was 1936:

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s01607&pos=20&action=zoom&id=5411

[Person6]

I have reason to doubt that information or to seek a more accurate date which is why I'm asking. Since I made the original post I've got a bit more information which means I can ask the question "Was it stll standing in March 1936?"

Trying to save myself a trip to the archives really.

[Hopman]

12th February 1936:

THE Theatre Royal, Sheffield, is still the sad, blackened ruin of twisted girders and fallen masonry that the fire left

 

6th June 1936:

... derelict Theatre Royal building. Sheffield. The she t.f the building having been sold lo corporation, demolition operations have already started, and in month iho siic will lie entirely cleared. Not onlv is the shell of the burned-out theatre being cleared ...

 

Info from the British Newspaper Archive.

Edited March 26, 2018 by Hopman
more info added

[Person6]

Brilliant, thank you. That gets me close enough.