William George Robert Sprague was a theatre architect, born in Australia and died On This Day 3rd December 1933
An articled clerk for Frank Matcham and then Walter Emden.
He was the architect with W H Barton for the Streatham Hill Theatre built in 1929; it was the last theatre designed by Sprague, but possibly his largest and one of the best-equipped in London, outside of the West End. Became a bingo hall in 1962. Grade 2 listed. Bingo closed in 2017.
(Portrait Images Sprague left and Barton right courtesy Arthur Lloyd)
An articled clerk for Frank Matcham and then Walter Emden.
He was the architect with W H Barton for the Streatham Hill Theatre built in 1929; it was the last theatre designed by Sprague, but possibly his largest and one of the best-equipped in London, outside of the West End. Became a bingo hall in 1962. Grade 2 listed. Bingo closed in 2017.
(Portrait Images Sprague left and Barton right courtesy Arthur Lloyd)
