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A History of the County of Essex
… opened the Foresters' Hall in The Avenue in 1904; a cinema was opened in it in 1927, but closed in 1930. The hall …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… participation by local amateur groups. 87 The town's first cinema, the Picture House, opened in 1912 above the market hall. It was superseded in 1923 by the Grosvenor Cinema, which closed in 1967. Another early cinema, the Hippodrome, occupied what became Maddocks' …
A History of the County of Essex
… is now (1965) used as a nurses' training centre. The Plaza cinema, George Lane, was built in 1932 and the Majestic cinema, High Road, in 1935. 134 A parish library was begun in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and other events until the 1970s. 61 In 1922 the Empire cinema was opened at no. 41 Oxford Street, which had been a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Street, 75 was used successively as a Masonic hall, a cinema, and a garage, and was largely rebuilt in 1987. 76 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the Kursaal was converted into Worthing's first permanent cinema, the Dome. 86 By 1935 there were four cinemas in the … and Union Place. In 1935 it was transferred to a converted cinema in Union Place near by. By the late 1930s audiences …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… as Trench Billiard Hall in 1937 and 1941. 57 The Regent cinema, Wrockwardine Wood, popularly known as the 'Ranch …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was used by 14 clubs and societies and served also as a cinema at weekends and as a library staffed by voluntary …