Thread: The Empire.
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Old 18-03-2013, 19:02   #31
davidf
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Re: The Empire.

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
On the gable end you can clearly see a bricked up gothic arched window, which made me think it might have originally been connected with a church, but I'm really just guessing on that one.
Sorry to be late (!), but I think that the building was originally the New Jerusalem Temple and was built in about 1842. A great grandfather of mine got married there in 1868. And, yes, I too sometimes went to the Empire Dance Hall - around late 1959/early 1960.
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