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Original Text (Annotation: EPW057287 / 701927)
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The Palace Theatre, in its time a noted theatre and music hall. Apparently, the winter of 1902/03 when it was built, was extremely cold so sugar was added to the mortar to help it set. Later the management used this odd fact in their publicity so the Palace became known as "the sweetest theatre in the North".
It was demolished in 1960. '