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A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… Jenner's Hall has been used as a parish hall. 10 The Royal Cinema Accommodating 5060 people, it opened by 1926 in the infants' school off Gas Lane which closed in 1923. The cinema had closed by 1935. 11 Library Service This began in …
A History of the County of Essex
… houses and shops and dominated by the Civic Centre and a cinema. The small Methodist church (1875), the junior school …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… not survive the First World War. The first purpose-built cinema was the Cosy cinema in Burton Street, which opened c. 1921 81 and closed in 1956. 82 The Royal cinema, King Street, opened c. 1938 83 and closed as a cinema …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Niagara House had gone and there were more shops and a cinema on the west side of Northfield Avenue. The last …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and soon known as Brentford theatre, later being used as a cinema and surviving until 1930. 20 The Q theatre was opened … partly for bingo from c. 1969 but survived as a double cinema, Studios 1 and 2, in 1980. 30 The Northfield cinema, on the east side of Northfield Avenue, was open by …
A History of the County of Essex
… and the building was later converted into the Carlton cinema. 41 St. Nicholas's Roman Catholic school, Gladding …
Survey of London
… next two decades. By 1925 the Hippodrome was run just as a cinema and in July 1926, after alteration by Pitcher … 131 announced its 'opening' as 'the new Hippodrome Super Cinema'. 132 It was altered again in 1936, 133 but was bombed … as its eastward abutment. Its site later accommodated a cinema (see below). Nos 75 and 77, two semi-detached houses, …
Survey of London
… with architecture as blatantly as the back of a 1930s cinema. 573 It was commented that of the 1,600 seats a … as a theatre with a seating capacity of 1,400, dance hall, cinema, exhibition room and sports hall, especially for … was demolished in 1989. Until the 1960s it had been a cinema, the Poplar Pavilion, originally established at Nos …
A History of the County of Warwick
… common to the bulk of the nation's population. The cinema was the characteristic new form of entertainment in the pre-television age. The first cinema shows in Birmingham had been presented in the Curzon … 3,000 people, and in 1915 it became known as the West End Cinema. 89 Its proprietor, Walter Jeffs, had originally …