AVON (des. Llewellyn Williams)

88 Worcester street
seating 943
'J. C. Williamson's Luxury Playhouse'
15 May 1935 - 8 Aug 1946
(badly damaged by fire)
reinstated (G. T. Lucas)
seating 904
'Your Favourite Theatre'
Seating reduced to 811
27 Aug 1947 - Sep 1989
(later Pentecostal. Church, then Holy Grail Sports Bar, with one wall being used for projecting live coverage of games.

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