http://merciacinema.org/blog The Mercia Cinema Society Blog Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:40:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bioscope 108 is at the printers now Cover: State Cinema (later Mayflower) St. Budeaux, Plymouth Contents:Reel Enthusiasm - 2 / More ... Cinema in the Raw / Tyneside Cinema re-opens / Tomorden Cinemas and Theatres / Reviews - Leicester cinemas & Bradford cinema web-site / Letters / Notes & ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/07/07/bioscope-108-imminent/ (This has now been despatched along with Barnsley Cinemas). Collector's corner has been updated Bioscope 107 - Cover: The Queen’s, Palmers Green Photograph from Winfield section, Gould Theatre Collection Contents: Reel Enthusiasm / Trotter & Murray cinemas extra / Cinemas of Brighouse / Those Were The Days … / An Itinerant Cinema Outfit / ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/04/20/bioscope-107-imminent/ This is the latest publication from the Society- it will be sent free to all Members with Bioscope 107. Barnsley Cinemas - Kate Taylor A5 60pp saddle-stitched. Laminated card covers. £4.95 retail http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/04/20/barnsley-cinemas/ Last year we lost Len Davies: this year, the March meeting opened with a minute's silence in memory of another long-serving member, Anthony B. Phillips (1935-2007). The chairman writes in tribute : With great sadness we learned of the death of Anthony (Ant) Phillips at Whipps Cross Hospital, Walthamstow, on 29 ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/04/19/an-obituary-and-two-new-ians/ This article originally appeared in Bioscope 102, with the letter from Keith Parkinson published in Bioscope 103. The illustrations are after the article and before the subsequent letter. Hover your mouse over the photos for captions and click for a larger image. MEMORIES OF A FLEA-PIT 19th December 2006 marks (marked) the ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/03/12/march-gallery-ormskirk/ The BKSTS Cinema Technology Magazine- by Jim Slater I was pleased to receive as an early Christmas present a copy of an interesting book by Mervyn Gould, one of a series published by the Mercia Cinema Society, which was founded in 1980 to promote and publish research into the history of ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/03/03/another-basingstoke-review-2/ A number of posters have been added to the "For Sale" section of Collectors Corner. (Entries are FREE for members, and 4 x 34p. stamps per ten words (name & address free) for non-members. Copy for this service to the Administrator. This also appears in the Bioscope colour supplement) http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/02/25/collectors-corner-updated/ An enquiry about Francis Percival, Ashington Theatre Manager, has been added to the notes and queries page. http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/02/16/notes-and-queries-updated/ On the fringes of legality, urban exploration is an unusual hobby where people get into abandoned spaces and document them. Provided that the UrbExer doesn't actually break into a premises, they are only committing the civil offence of Trespass for which the owner can sue but the Police cannot arrest. ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/02/12/manchester-paramount-explored/ BASINGSTOKE ENTERTAINED Mervyn Gould Mercia Cinema Society, 2007 Paperback, 98pp., £8.95 ISBN 10: 0-946406-62-6 Since Basingstoke has never had a purpose built theatre this book, perhaps naturally, centres on the history its cinemas. However there is a record of plenty of live entertainment within its pages and its author, long time SMA member, Mervyn Gould, ... http://merciacinema.org/blog/2008/02/07/another-basingstoke-review/