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A History of the County of Oxford
… British Cinemas in 1938; it closed in 1961. 200 The Grand Cinema opened c. 1918 and became part of A.B.C. in 1938. It … closed in 1968 and reopened as a bingo club. 201 A third cinema, the Regal, opened after 1945; in 1956 it was taken … Essoldo group and renamed the Essoldo. 202 It was still a cinema in 1969. Bear-baiting was probably once put on in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 159 The Central Exchange became subsequently the Palace Cinema and later a shopping arcade; the Cornhill became the …
Survey of London
… that it was named in compliment to Cardinal Beaufort is attractive but untenable, for Beaufort died in 1447, and the …