Theatres · London
Fairfield Halls
Fairfield Halls is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- East Croydon · 0.4 km
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Fairfield Halls is a working theatre in the United Kingdom, listed in OpenStreetMap as a public performance venue. Address: Park Lane, Croydon, CR0 1JB. Coordinates: 51.3723°, -0.0955°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Fairfield Halls is an arts, entertainment and conference centre in Croydon, London, England, which opened in 1962 and contains a theatre and gallery, and a large concert hall regularly used for BBC television, radio and orchestral recordings. Fairfield Halls closed for a £30 million redevelopment in 2016, and reopened in 2019.
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Background
History
The halls are built on the site of Croydon's historic "Fair Field", which hosted a well-known fair up until around 1860, and above disused railway cuttings which used to link the main London to Brighton railway to Croydon Central Station in what is now Queen's Gardens. Between 1930 and 1962 the land was home to both a car park and air raid shelters during the war. The venue was 50 years old in 2012 and an anniversary concert by the London Mozart Players was attended by the Earl of Wessex. A website was also launched to celebrate both the venue's history and to act as an ongoing archive, containing 2,000 digitised images accessed via text and keyword searches. This makes it one of the…
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- Coordinates
- 51.3723, -0.0955
- District
- Croydon
- Parish
- Croydon, unparished area
- Postcode
- CR0 1JB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Croydon West
- Established
- 1962
- Nearest railway station
- East Croydon — 0.4 km
Sources
- osm: w26595743 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Fairfield Halls (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Fairfield Halls - London.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Fairfield Halls?
- Fairfield Halls is in London, United Kingdom (postcode CR0 1JB), in the parish of Croydon, unparished area.
- When was Fairfield Halls built?
- Built or established in 1962.
- Who owns Fairfield Halls?
- Fairfield Halls is owned by | current_tenants =.
- How do I get to Fairfield Halls?
- The nearest railway station is East Croydon, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode CR0 1JB.