Hippodrome, Wrexham

The Hippodrome was a theatre and cinema on Henblas Street, Wrexham, in North Wales. It was part of a site known as Birmingham Square, and its section later became the Union Square market square. The market building was then roofed and converted into Union Hall, or later the Public Hall, a meeting and entertainment space from 1873 until it burned down in a fire in 1906/07.

In 1909, the New Opera House & Public Hall opened on the site, and was renamed the Hippodrome Theatre in 1911, and started operating as a cinema in 1920. The theatre operations ceased in 1959, and it reopened as Cine Variety House in 1961, showing films and variety shows. Later in the 20th century, it became purely a cinema until its closure in 1998.

The building then lay vacant, and was bought by a property developer in 2004. It was approved for demolition in 2006, but burned down in another fire in June 2008, and the site was cleared in 2009. In 2023, American actor and co-owner of Wrexham A.F.C., Rob McElhenney, announced proposals for the Ryan Rodney Reynolds Memorial Park to be built on the site, named after his Wrexham A.F.C. co-owner, the Canadian-American actor Ryan Reynolds.