Lewisham Hippodrome

Where the Eros tower stands now there used to be a Hippodrome that could accommodate 3629 people. Once the largest theater in Lewisham hosted most of the big names of the day there. It was opened in 1911 it’s auditorium was constructed on three levels, stalls and pit, circle, and gallery, and also had four boxes. The orchestra pit could accommodate some 16 musicians and the Theatre had its own resident orchestra of 13. This is 21 years earlier the arrival of Lewisham theatre. It becomes a music hall and then theatre and in 1952 turned into a cinema called the Eros Cinema which was closed down 8 years later to become the tower now which was designed by Owen Luder who conceived the giant cat on the shopping mall.