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(This also appears in the Bioscope colour supplement)

FOR SALE

Posters: (click to see bigger pictures)

Dudley Opera House & Hippodrome variety 1936 £60

Leicester Theatre Royal revue 1927 £80

Bury Hippodrome 1920 variety (water-stained) £45

Liverpool New Pavilion 1920 variety £50

Eastbourne Royal Hippodrome revue 1924 £60

Guildford Theatre Royal revue 1927 £60

Southend-on-Sea Hippodrome variety 1922 £75

Norwich Hipp ‘All Smiles’ 1927 tour 11″ x 35″ high approx £30

Manchester Hulme Hippodrome – variety 1922 – £45

Preston Hippodrome – variety bill 1920 – £50

Sheffield Empire – The Sports Girl (revue) 1915 – £60

also:

DALY’s – the biography of a theatre. D. Forbes-Winslow, W.H. Allen & Co., 1944 £10 inc. packing & recorded delivery. Mervyn.Gould@virgin.net

Photocopy of Directory of Kinemas from 1922 Kinematograph Year Book. Ex-research £15.00+1.00 p+p. (£30-worth of photo-copying.) Mervyn Gould 20 Blackbrook Court Loughborough LE11 5UA

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Lincolnshire Cinemas Past & Present 1910-2005 – new book by Maurice Brader. £13.00 cheque/ p.o. to M. E. Brader ‘Homestead’ 55 Parthian Avenue Wyberton Boston PE21 7DH

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Light your Palace of Cine Variety the traditional way! I have a number of Strand Pattern 23 & S Battens to dispose of to Mercia members. There is also a quantity of spares for Strand Electric lanterns and do try me for other Strand Pattern numbers + some Furse lights, cinema-type spots and pageants too. Jim Laws Lighting West End Lodge Wrentham BECCLES NR 34 7NH 01502 675264 Jimlawslighting@aol.com

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Curtain control motor & drum: single phase open/close /stop £250 o.n.o. Contact Mervyn Gould (see inside front cover)

Creased and/or faded colour/b&w photographs restored in copy photo. Prices from £10, depending on condition. Ian Houseman 42 Maple Road Loughborough LE11 2JP 01509 821654. i.houseman@ntlworld.com

WANTED

Wanted, in good condition and reasonably priced:

David High – ‘The First Hundred Years – The Story of the Empire Leicester Square, 1884-1984′
Published by: Amber Valley 1985. Hard-back copy. ISBN 0950927252

Contact: Derek Atkins,
196 Mount Vale,
York, YO24 1DL.

e-mail: derekstarsix2000@yahoo.co.uk

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Kinematograph Year Books pre-1935, also Cinema / Music Hall / Theatre original opening photographs, souvenir opening brochures, and building plans for my private collection. Mervyn Gould (see inside Bioscope front.cover)

EXCHANGE

I have about 40 foreign cinema photographs surplus to my collection. Some are good, some poor snaps. I’d be happy to exchange for some historic British cinema internal and external photographs. Mervyn Gould (see inside Bioscope front cover)