The Gould Gazetteer- Q
QUEENBOROUGH Kent
ACE / QUEEN’S CINEMA / ROYAL PICTUREDOME High Street Opened 1912 - front, conversion of Georgian House. Fire 29th May 1918. Rebuilt - architect: Marshall Harvey. Reopened 15th November 1920 as Queen’s. 723seats. Closed April 1936. Bought/re-opened October H. W. Grose. By 1941: (AWH) - Prop., Queenboro’ Cinema Co. 510 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly. Sat. continuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 20ft, Phone Sheerness 255. Station, Queenborough, S.R. (Closed.) Bought during WWII by Charles Crathorn re-opened, re-named Ace. Closed c.1954. Demolished for house.
QUEENSBURY Middx
ESSOLDO / PLAZA Beverley Drive - Prop., Plaza (Queensbury). Ltd., 8 Clarges Street, London W.1. Phone Mayfair 8961.
QUEENSBURY Yorks
HALL OF FREEDOM / Hall of Freedom S. Binns (1907) 1922 - Prop., Hall of Freedom Picture Co., Ltd. Res. Man., A. Gardner. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices, 3d. to 9d. Phone, Thornton 138. Station, Queensbury, G.N.R.
VICTORIA HALL / Victoria Hall f., F. P. Rushworth (1907) 1922 KYB. By 1941: (BA) - Lessee, Greengates Cinema Co., Ltd. Phone Idle 288. 470 seats. Booked at Leeds. Once nightly. Mat, and two shows Sat. Prices 5d. to 1s. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Queensbury 2124. Films by Carrier from Leeds.
QUINTON West Mids
REEL / ODEON / ABC / CANNON / CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / DANILO Hagley Road West Opened Bank Holiday Monday, August 7th 1939 - Charlie Chan in Honolulu and Always in Trouble. Prop., Danilo circuit. Prices 6d, 1/-, and 1/6. Café attached. To Essoldo and re-named 1954. To Classic with circuit 1972 & re-named. 1972 to classic & re-named. Tripled July 26th 1973 - screen 1 Cabaret; screen 2 The Ten Commandments; and screen 3 The Sound of Music. Boxing Day 1978 fourth auditorium added - Watership Down. Café closed 1979. May 1986 to Cannon, structurally altered, refurbished & re-named. To ABC & re-named. To Odeon & re-named. To Ward Anderson late 2005 as part of OFT requirement following Odeon/UCI merger. March 2006 to Reel Cinemas, Loughborough.
