William George Robert Sprague was a theatre architect who died On This Day 4th December 1933. He left an estate of £397 to his wife Isabel who he married in Brixton in 1890
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. It is Grade 2 listed. and the Bingo closed in 2017 and bought by the Ruach Church in 2022
(Image of WGR Sprague 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. It is Grade 2 listed. and the Bingo closed in 2017 and bought by the Ruach Church in 2022
(Image of WGR Sprague courtesy Arthur Lloyd)
