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ABERBARGOED Mon
ROY’S KINEMA / FUTURIST Commercial Street (Kamm) - Prop., L. R. Churchill, 7 Park Avenue, Whitchurch. 270 seats. Prices 8d. to 1s. Con¬tinuous from 5 p.m. Booked at Cardiff. Proscenium width 20ft. Station, Bargoed, G.W.R.
RIALTO (Morrison) - Prop., W. Worlock, ‘Oakdene,’ 3 Gwenthoner Road, Hengoed. 500 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 9d. Proscenium width 20ft.

ABERCARN Mon.
CINEMA - Prop., S. Attwood
Victoria Jubilee Hall f., John Sykes (1907)

ABERGAVENNY Mon.
BOROUGH THEATRE / Town Hall f., J. T. Rutherford (1907) Was used for occasional film shows.
CASTLE CINEMA WW2 army-run structure in castle grounds. Demolished.
COLISEUM Lion Street (WE) Opened 1913. Prop., Abergavenny Coliseum Co., Ltd. 780 seats. Booked at 2 Office Road, Maesteg, by R. Dooner. Twice nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Pros¬cenium width 25ft. Phone Abergavenny 33. Stations, Ahergavenny, G.W.R. & L.M.S. Now Wetherspoon’s following retail use.
PAVILION Monk Street (WE) Closed as cinema 1967. Now ‘Gateway Christian Centre’.
PICTURE PALACE / PARK HALL Opened 1913. Demolished.

ABERSYCHAN Mon.
CAPITOL / EMPIRE (BA) -Prop. Pontypool Theatres, Ltd., Pavilion, Abertillery. 500 seats. Booked at Pavilion, Abertillery. Continuous. Prices 6d. and 9d. Station, Abersythan, G.W.R.

ABERTILLERY Mon.
EMPRESS CINEMA Bridge Street (Sound Ltd.) -Prop., Abertil¬lery Theatres, Ltd., Pavilion, Abertillery. 800 seats. Booked at H. O. Continuous. Phone Abertillery 3. Station, Abertillery, G.W.R. Demolished late 80s.
GAIETY (Sound Ltd.) - Prop., Abertillery Theatres, Ltd., Pavilion, Abertillery. 1,200 seats. Booked at H. O. Continuous. Phone Abertillery 3. Station, Abertillery, G.W.R.
METROPOLE Carlton & Duckworth 1907 By 1941: (Kamm) - Prop., Abertillery Theatres, Ltd., Pavilion, Abertillery. 800 seats. Booked at H.O.
PALACE Carmel Street (Sound Ltd.) - Prop., Abertillery Theatres, Ltd. Booked at H.O. 650 seats.
PAVILION THEATRE Carlyle Street (Sound Ltd.) - Prop., Aber¬tillery Theatres, Ltd., Pavilion, Abertillery. 800 seats. Booked at H. O. Continuous, Phone Abertillery 3. Station, Abertillery, G.W.R.

ABINGDON Berks
GRAND CINEMA / Corn Exchange Opened 1855/6. Cap. 600. Early pictures. f., John H. Viner (1907) Post WWI, lessees F. J. & D. A. Jacobs. By 1922 Grand, leesee S. A. Coronel, mgr. J. W. Nemsey. 5d to 1/3d. Closed mid-1920s.
OLD GAOL ARTS CENTRE 16mm part-time operation
PAVILION / ABINGDON PICTURE PALACE / ELECTRIC PALACE 63 Stert Street Opened c.1911 – converted maltings. Pop., Lewis Davis, mgr. F. Goldby. 1920 - Lessee, Walter Thatcher. Res. Man. F. Goldby. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d to 9d. Seating 200. Voltage 460. Abingdon G.W.R. Re-constructed. 600 seats. Phone 20. c.1930 BTH sound. Bought by Union Cinemas c.1936 & re-named Pav. Closed c1939. Demolished.
REGAL The Square (BTP) Opened 8th June 1935 – Girl in Danger and One Night of Love. Prop., Regal (Abingdon) Ltd. Architect: Harold S. Scott. 900 seats. To Union 1936. To ABC 1937. By 1941: Props. Associated British Cine¬mas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Continuous. Booked at H. O. Phone Abingdon 322. Station, Abingdon G.W.R. CinemaScope c.1956. 785 seats. To Star 1965. Part-time bingo. Closed to film 1976. Bingo. 2 more attempts at part-time film. Building closed September 1987 or 9. Demolished February 2004.

ACCRINGTON Lancs
APOLLO / UNIT 4 / CLASSIC / ODEON / REGAL The Broadway Opened 12th April 1937 – Champagne Waltz. Architects: Drury & Gomersall. Bought by Odeon (Rank) 1944. To Classic December 1967. Tripled. Then Hutchinson’s 1981 and finally Apollo. Closed 25th March 1990. Demolished.
Assembly Rooms Mr. Duxbury (1907)
DOWRY STREET PICTURE PALACE Dowry Street Opened 28th February 1910. Conversion. Closed 1916. Works. ?demolished.
EMPIRE Edgar Street (WE) Opened c.1910 by William Wilson. Town’s first permanent cinema - next to Prince’s. By 1941: Prop., Victory Theatres, Ltd. Gen. Man. Arthur Peel. 728 seats. Three shows daily. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Accrington 2350. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. Star Bingo. Converted to flats.
GRAND THEATRE Opened 1882. Architect: Mr. Turner. Burned down 1964.
HIPPODROME (1) Opened 1903 – Madame Ella & her lions. Built on site of Ohmy’s Circus. Opened 1903 Management: Wilmot Potter, and Vandy (1907) Burned down 1908. Replaced by New Hipp. (2).
PICTUREDROME / KING’S HALL Whalley Road Opened c.1910, converted from 1859 Methodist chapel – porch and box over added externally. Prop. Weisker Bros. K. Hall 1915. Basement billiard hall. By 1941 (Morrison) - Prop., John Hamer. 426 seats. Two shows nightly. Mat., Sat. Two changes weekly. Booked at Manchester. Prices 5d. to 8d. Proscen¬ium width 27ft. Phone 2431. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. Closed c.1960.
METROPLEX Moreton Street [4 screens / 870 seats; for summer 2002 opening]
New HIPPODROME (2) Ellison Street Opened 21st December 1908. Architect Bertie Crewe. Weisker Bros. (F. E. & J. L.) as directors with F. F. Wilshire, P. Vardy, A. L. Parkinson & W. Johnson. By 1941: (WE) Prop. Broadway Cinemas (Accrington) Ltd. 849 seats. Booked at Hall. Three shows daily. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 28ft. Stage, 24ft. deep. 6 dressing-rooms. Phone Accrington 2500. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. By 1946 it was back as live theatre playing variety, revue, and pantomime under Terence Byron’s management. 1950s lessee – Joseph Whittles. Closed 1954 & demolished 1955.
PALACE Whalley Road (WE) Opened 1915 - first Jardine orchestral organ 2/22s installed 1920 – organist Dr. Geo Tootall. 1941: Prop., Victory Theatres (Accrington) Ltd. 803 seats. Three shows daily. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Accrington 2589. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. Closed 1962. Store.
RITZ / PICTURE PALACE Church Street Opened 9th January 1922. Prop., Wilson & Barlow. Architect: A. R. Gradwell. Mgr John R. Kelly – later A. Spooner. 1934: rebuilt by owners as Ritz. By 1941: (GB) -Prop., Wilson & Barlow. 775 seats. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly and matinée. Prices 5d. to 8d. Proscenium width 17ft. Café. Phone Accrington 2464. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. Closed August 1958. Store. Demolished.
PRINCESS PICTURE HOUSE / PRINCE’S THEATRE Edgar Street (No 3) Opened 1882. Architect Mr. Turner. J. B. Ormerod (1907) Became cine c.WWI-end. By 1941: (WE) -Prop. Victory Theatres, Ltd. Gen. Man. Arthur Peel. 840 seats. Three shows daily. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Accrington 2701. Station, Accrington, L.M.S. Damaged by fire & demolished in 1964.
Town Hall f., W. Prescott. Leased by A1 Animated Pictures in 1908.
VUE / PREMIÈRE Hyndburn Road opened 2002. 4 screens / 880 seats

ACKWORTH Yorks
ELECTRIC THEATRE Moor Top – KYB20: Prop., Fieldhouse & Davey. One show nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d to 9d. Seating 350. Voltage 100. Station, Nostell, G.N.R. 1922: res. man. S. Fieldhouse. 1924: Res. man. A. Clifford. 1928: Prop. Ward & Fieldhouse. Res. man. S. Fieldhouse. Booked at Hall. One show nightly, twice Mon. and Sat. Mat. Sat. Prices 5d. to 8d. Phone Ackworth 34. 1930: Lessee & Man. E. Crossley. Pictures & occasional variety. Booked at Hall. One show nightly. Prices 5d. to 8d. Stage and one dressing room. Phone Ackworth 34. Closed in 1931KYB. No entry in 1932 KYB
NEW PICTURE THEATRE KYB 1914 Presumably as above. No other details.

ACOCKS GREEN
PICTURE HOUSE Prop., C. J. Green & J. W. Booth. Res. man. C. Mills. One show nightly. Mat., Wed. and Sat. Two changes weekly. Continuous. Prices 5d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Acocks Green 97. Station Acocks Green, G.W.R.

ADDINGHAM, Yorks
School Rooms (1907)

ADDLESTONE Surrey
ARCADIA CINEMA KYB28
CINEMA ROYAL 1926: Prop., C. Reeves Hicks. Res. man. C. W. Scates. One show nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d to 1/3d.
PLAZA Station Road (WE) - Props., Southern Cinemas, Ltd., 36, Kingsway W.C.2. Phone Holborn 3282. 314 seats. Booked at H. O. Continuous. Mats, daily. Two changes weekly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Weybridge 1373. Station, Addlestone S. R.
Village Hall f. J. Bower Binns (1907)

ADLINGTON Lancs
CINEMA / THEATRE Railway Road Re-named by 1926. Prop. Adlington Cinematograph & Trading Co. Res. man. A. E. Newton. 1928: Prop. Adlington Theatre Ltd. Sec. J. Fearnhead, F.S.A.A. Booked at Hall. One show nightly, twice Sat. Prices 3d to 1s. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., W. Hartley. 425 seats. Booked at Hall. One show nightly, 3 shows Saturday. Prices 5d. to 1s. Phone Adlington 320. Station, Adlingion, L.M.S.

ADWICK-le-STREET Yorks
BRODSWORTH PICTURE PALACE - Prop., Brodsworth P.P. Ltd., One show daily. Three on Saturday. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d to 8d. Seating 550. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 110. Station, Carcroft. (KYB20)

ALCESTER Warwick
PLAZA Demolished
REGENT CINEMA / Corn Ex¬change High Street f., E. A. Jephcott Alcester (1907) By 1941: (BA) - Props., J.& K. Bolas. 301 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Alcester 60. Station, Alcester, L.M.S. & G.W.R., & Road Transport. Demolished.

ALDEBURGH Suffolk
ALDEBURGH CINEMA / PICTURE HOUSE High Street Opened c.1919. Prop. W. Hill. 345 seats. (KYB20) By 1941 -Prop., Aldeburgh Cinema & Amusements, Ltd. 400 seats. One show nightly. Two changes weekly. Phone Aldeburgh 37. Station, Aldeburgh, L.N.E.R. Now seats 286.
Jubilee Hall Crabbe Street f. (1907) – c1946 to date used for the Britten/Pears Aldeburgh Festival.

ALDERLEY EDGE Cheshire
FESTIVAL HALL / REGAL BALLROOM / REGAL CINEMA / ASSEMBLY ROOMS Built as the Assembly Rooms in 1927 to accommodate the new Alderley Edge Music Festival started by Philip Godlee, who lived nearby at The Meadows, Riley Lane. During WW2, it functioned as the Regal Cinema and dance hall, and local girls found it an ideal venue at which to meet American servicemen stationed in the area! Paul Bland [Paul.Bland@moultonschool.co.uk] 1941: Marks Circuit, 6, St. Mary’s Gate, Manchester 1. Phone Blackfriars 4978.

ALDERSHOT Hants
Canterbury Music Hall (1880s- ): 1880s. Unknown; nd, D
Country Theatre (1891-1953); 1891 Unknown; 1960 D
Marlborough Lines Theatre (1880s?- ); 1880s. Unknown; n.d. D
Red White and Blue Music Hall (c.1854- ); c.1845 Unknown; n.d. D
Royal Arms Music Hall (18809- ); 1880s. Unknown; n.d. D
Royal Engineers’ Theatre (1890-1960s); 1890 Unknown; n.d. D
Theatre Royal/South Camp (1856.- ); 1856 Unknown; n.d. D
ABC / RITZ High Street (BTH) Opened 13th May 1937. Architects: Verity & Beverley. Controlled by Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House. 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Whitehall 8484. 1,47 seats. Pictures and Variety. Continuous. Booked by Associated British Film Corpn., 30-31 Golden Square, London W1. Width of prosc. 48ft. Stage, 19ft. Three dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Aldershot 55. Stations, Aldershot, S. R. Tripled: 1: 313 2: 187 3: 150. Closed July 2003. Bingo.
ALEXANDRA CINEMA / Alexandra Music Hall Alexandra Road Opened c.1870. Converted to cinema c.1914. Rebuilt with circle by Henry G. Baker 1928. 1931: County Cinemas Ltd. lessees. 1941: (WE) – Prop. County Cinemas, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. 710 seats. Continuous. Once on Sunday. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Phone Aldershot 356. Stage, 4ft. deep, one dressing-room. Station, Aldershot Town, S.R. Closed 1967. Bingo. Demolished 1986.
APOLLO / VICTORY MUSIC HALL Opened 1859 Closed & demolished 1889 – mentioned by J. F. Melling.
GARRISON / CAVALRY THEATRE Queen’s Avenue Opened c.1890 – Pictures by 1919. 1941: (WE) Lessee, Chas. Darby. 500 seats. Booked at Scala Theatre, Farnborough. Twice nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Café attached. Phone Aldershot 482. Station, Aldershot Town, SR. Closed & demolished 1960.
HIPPODROME Station Road Opened 1913. Architect Bertie Crewe. By SG 46: Props: Kingshot Theatres, Ltd, Empire, Kingston-on-Thames. Agent: Gerard Heath. 108-111, Jermyn St., London, S.W.1. Cap.: Boxes 4, stalls 160, P. stalls 28, pit 261, D.C. 258, balcony 272. Barring clause: Not to appear within 6 miles 40 weeks prior and 3 weeks after. Twice-nightly 5.30 and 7.45. No matinées. Revue and variety. Stage: Pros. 24ft. x 30ft., depth 17ft., height under flies 24ft. Width between fly galleries 34ft. Stage to grid 50ft. Thirty-five hemp lines, no counterweight. Elec. equip.: 210 v. D.C. Four footlights with dimmers. Three battens with four dimmers. Four dips with dimmers. Four dips, switch controlled. Two floods on stage. Three front of house following limes. Dressing rooms: Seven. One chorus room for 12. Sep. room for orchestra. Resident orchestra of ten (acc. for twelve). Resident conductor. One turn-table reproducer and microphone. Closed 1952 & demolished 1962.
MANOR PARK PAVILION High Street (WE) Opened 1926. Architect: Henry G. Baker. Sold to County circuit January 1928. By 1941 - Prop., County Cinemas, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Con¬tinuous. Once on Sunday. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage 10ft. deep. Two dressing-rooms. Phone Aldershot 567. Station, Aldershot SR. Closed 1956 and demolished ?1970s.
ODEON / EMPRE THEATRE High Street (WE) Opened 1st August 1930. Architect: Harold S. Scott. 1599 seats. Prop., Empire (Aldershot) Ltd., Empire (Aldershot) Ltd. 1931: B. F. Fort, mgr. Bought by County, taken over by Odeon.1941: Old County Cinema, Marlow. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Phone Aldershot 760. Café attached. Station, Aldershot, S.R. Renamed Odeon 1964. Closed 1981. Still stands as ‘church’.
PALACE PICTURE THEATRE Station Road (WE) Opened 1910 - Props., Aldershot Picture Palace, Ltd. 1931: H. O. Eyan, mgr. By 1941: 708 seats. Two changes weekly. Prices 7d. to 2s. 6d. Continuous daily. Phone Alder¬shot 99. Station, Aldershot Town, SR. Now a nightclub.
PRINCE’S HALL Civic Centre Prop: Corporation. 700 seats.
THEATRE ROYAL and Opera House Gordon Road (No 3) Opened 1891- Clarence Sounes (1907). 1931: Jn. F. Ash, propr. By SG46: Prop.: Super Variety, Ltd., Theatre Royal, Aldershot. Cap.: Stalls 301, D. circle 55, U. circle 82, pit stalls 90, gallery 166. Once nightly 7. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Twice nightly 4.30 till 10. Matinee Saturday 2.l5. Saturday matinée when playing twice nightly. Variety, repertory. Stage: Minimum depth from setting line, O.P 18ft., P.S. 24ft. Height under fly galleries 18ft. Width between fly galleries 32½ft. Height of grid from stage 30ft. Galleries 16ft. No counterweight gear. 27 lines. Elec. equip.: 230-460 v. D.C. Footlights, three circuits with ind. dimmers, Three battens, each with three circuits with ind. dimmers. Two dips switch controlled. Two floods on stands. Two f-o-h pro-set spots. One f-o-h follow¬ing lime. Dressing rooms: Six single. Orchestra: Acc. 10. Resident 10. Ampli¬fying equip.: Two-turntable reproducer. Microphone. By 1952 freehold owned by Garcia (Super Variety Ltd.) Lessee Frederick Piffard. Closed by fire 1955; demolished 1959.
WELLINGTON CINEMA (BTH) -Prop., Committee Royal Garrison Church Institute. 468 seats. Booked at Hall by Man. Continuous. Children’s Mat. Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone Aldershot 440. Café attached. Station, Aldershot, SR.
West End Centre Queens Road Seats: 98

ALDRIDGE Staffordshire
AVION SUPER CINEMA Anchor Road (BTH) Opened 1938 - Props., Avion Cinemas (Aldridge) Ltd. Architect: Roland Satchwell. 1.000 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Continuous from 2 p.m. daily. Films hooked at Hall. Occasional Variety. Stage, 30ft. x 15ft.; two dressing-rooms. Phone Aldridge 52312. Station, Aldridge, L.M.S. Closed 1967. Bingo since.
Public Hall f. (1907)

ALFORD Lincs
Corn Ex¬change f., S. B. Carsley (1907)
RITZ West Street (Parmeko) Opened 1937. Prop., E. Armitage. Converted from school/workshop. Booked at Hall. 250 seats. Once nightly. Pictures and Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Proscen¬ium width 13ft. Phone Alford 75. Stage 14ft. deep. Three dressing-rooms. Sold 1945. Leased to Tom Bradley 50s. Closed mid-60s. Stands as shop and pottery.

ALFRETON Derbys
EMPIRE (WE) -700 seats. Opened 1922. Occasional Variety. Booked at HO., Commerce Chambers, Elite Bldgs., Nottingham. Phone Nottingham 2273/4. Continuous. Two shows Sat. Phone Alfreton 146. Station, Alfreton. Demolished 1986
METRO CINEMA Newton (BTH) - Props., G. S. Clark & S. Fearn. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. Booked at Hall by Props. Proscenium width 17ft.
ODEON THEATRE / ROYAL High Street (BTH) Built by Deutsch & Co. Opened 16th April 1931. Architect H. Clayton. 1450 seats. 1941 - Props., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Mat., Sat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Stage. Phone Alfreton 44. Closed 1964. Demolished.
New Town Hall, f., Frederick Lee (1907)

ALLENDALE Northumb
The CINEMA (Kalee) -Prop., Bert C. Young, 6 Melville Street, Edinburgh. 202 seats. Tues., Wed., Fri. at 7p.m.; Sat, at 2, 6 and 8.15 p.m. Two programmes weekly. Phone Allendale 60.

ALNWICK Northumb
Century Hall (1907)
CINEMA / CORN EXCHANGE and Theatre (No 3) Joseph Sanderson (1907) 1919 – Prop. John H. Sanderson. By 1941: (WE). -Prop. & Res. Man., J. H. Sanderson. 670 seats. Booked at Newcastle. Twice nightly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Alnwick 51. Station, Alnwick, L.N.E.R.
PLAYHOUSE Opened 1925. (WE) -Prop., Alnwick Playhouse Ltd. 1,000 seats. Pictures and Stage Plays. Booked at Newcastle. Prices 6d. to 2s. Proscenium width 22ft. Stage, 18ft. deep; four dressing-rooms. Continuous. Station, Alnwick L.N.E.R. Later 700seats. Closed to film 1979 - Last Feelings. To Northumberland Theatre Company. Ground floor rehearsal & administrative area, circle arts venue. Lessee Alnwick District Playhouse Trust. Music performances, dance, exhibitions & film shows.
Town Hall, W. T. Hindmarsh (1907)

ALRESFORD Hants
Civic Station Road
Town Hall f., W. H. Hunt (1907)

AL8TON Cumb
CINEMA (Electrocord) - Prop., Nelson & Nicholson. 300 seats. Booked by F. H. Nicholson at Hall. Occasional Variety. One show Thurs., two on Sat. Prices 2d. to 1s.; Proscenium width 20ft. Stage 12ft. deep, 2 dressing rooms. Dance hall attached. Station, Alston, LN.E.R.
Town Hall N. Walton (1907)

ALTON Hants
ALTON ELECTRIC THEATRE / Forester‘s Hall Operated as cinema 1911-1914.
Assembly Rooms f., E. Knowles (1907) Closed 1912.
PALACE / ALTON PICTURE THEATRE Normandy Street Opened 1914. 1919: Alton Picture Theatre Res. man. Chas. Preston. 1931: J. Hyman, mgr. 1931: J. Hyman, mgr. 1941 (RCA) - Prop., B. & R. Hyman. 825 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. ‘Phone Alton 103. Station, Alton, S.R. Now seats 111, also Bingo & Social Club.

ALTRINCHAM Ches
APOLLO Denmark Street [6 screens / 1,000 seats app.; work started summer 2005 for summer 2006]
HALE CINEMA / CINEMA HOUSE Willowtree Road Opened 1923. Architect W. W. Thornley. 1941 (WE) - Prop Hale Pictures, Ltd., 12, Exchange Buildings, 6, St. Mary’s Gate, Manchester. Phone City 1968. 890 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Cafe attached. Phone Altrincham 2228. Station, Hale, Cheshire Lines. Closed 1978. Demolished.
CENTRAL / SHAKESPEARE / Central Hall Shaw’s Road Existing building. Opened as Central 1906. Lessees, Weisker Bros. 1919: Prop. & mgr. Alf. Venables. Closed 1933. Later demolished.
CANNON / STUDIO ONE / HIPPODROME Stamford Street Opened 1912. Architects: Butterworth & Duncan. Prop. Thomas Hargreaves. 1,800 seats. January 1917 – fire, restored and re-opened in March. Sound: 9th October 1931 – The Man Who Came Back. By 1941: (RCA) -Props., T. Hargreaves (Altrincham) Ltd. 1,000 seats. Booked at Rialto, Rochdale. Continuous. Prices 8d.to 1s. 4d. Proscenium width 27ft. Phone 0331. Station, Altrincham. Inherited by Frank Hargreaves. Closed 1963. Re-opened as circle-only by Star. Taken over by Cannon. Closed 9th October 1986. Demolished January 1987.
Lecture Hall f., Mr. Whitehead (1907)
Pavilion Mr. Taylor (1907)
PICTURE THEATRE Stamford New Road Opened January 1914. Architect: T.A. Fitton. 1,100 seats. 1919: Res. man. John Place. By 1941 (WE) - Prop., Altrincham Picture Theatre, Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Man¬chester. Phone Ardwick 2226. 1,012 seats. Continuous. Mats., Mon. and Thurs. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Booked at H O. Phone Altrincham 0800. Station, Altrincham, MS. & A.R. Closed 1966. Station House on site.
Public Hall f., Mr. Whitehead (1907)
REGAL SUPER CINEMA (BTH) Opened 13th May 1931. Architects: Drury & Joseph Gomersall. 1,700 seats. Compton organ. By 1941: Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H O. Seats 1,750. Continuous evenings. Mats., Mon., Wed., Thurs. and Sat. Phone Altrincham 2626. Cafe attached. Station, Broadheath, Navigation Road, Altrincham, L.M.S. Auditorium burned down 5th January 1956. Demolished

AMBLE Northumb
BIJOU / Central Hall f., Messrs. Gibson (1907) c1910 Thomas Gibson mgr. 1939 – Amble Picture Hall Co.
COQUET PICTURE HALL - KB20

AMBLEBIDE Westmoreland
Pavilion f., Thos. Taylor (1907)
ZEFFIRELLI'S / ASSEMBLY ROOMS Compston Road f., Edward Tyson (1907) Concerted to cinema. Mgr. J.R. Fowkes. To Windermere & Ambleside Cinemas Ltd., (Leonard Clegg). c.1929 to Frank Townson. c.1956 MBC circuit Workington. Early 1970s different proprietors. To Derek Hook & re-named. 1982: 163 seats.

CARLTON CINEMA – Prop. Carlton Cinema Co. Gen. man. S.A. Alcock. One show nightly, two on Saturday. Two changes weekly. Prices 8d. to 2s. Seating, 700. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 100. Station, Windermere (KYB20)
CINEMA Millans Terrace (RCA) -Prop. & Man., Frank Townson. 400 seats. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Ambleside 295. Station, Windermere, L.M.S. Films by Film Transport Service.
Mechanics’ Institute F. W. Dixon (1907)
ZEFFIRELLI'S BY THE PARK Old Junior School, Compston Road Seats 1: 110 2: 60
Zeffirelli’s / Assembly Rooms, Ambleside manager

AMERSHAM nr. Chesham, Bucks
PLAYHOUSE Station Road Opened 1936. Prop: Amersham Repertory Players, Ltd., Playhouse, Amersham. Sally Latimer, Director. Tel. 4. Cop.: 238. Barring clause: All plays must be partly educational and cultural. Once nightly 7, Wednesday, Thursday. Matinées Wednesday, Thursda¬y and Saturday 2.45. Twice nightly, and 8.30, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday. Matinée Saturday. Plays, Children’s Play Christmas. Stage: Prosc. 24ft. Height 0ft. Min. depth 18ft. Elec. equip.: 210 v., A.C. No footlights. Two floods Coupled to two dimmers. Two spots on atands. Two floods on stands. Four f-o-h pre-set spots with ind. dimmers. Lighting is flexible enough to have dimmer con¬trolled spots for acting areas if desired. Dressing rooms: One single, three chorus acc. 18. Amplifying equip.: Two turn¬table reproducer. Theatre lounge where teas and light refreshments obtainable by company and public. 1949: Re-opened under Rosa de Lion & husband. Closed 1957. Later, Messrs. Pretty & Ellis’ auction rooms.
REGENT Sycamore Road (WE) Prop., Shipman & King, M84, Shellmex House, Strand, London W.C.2 - Phone Temple Bar 5077. Continuous from 2 p.m. Booked at H O. Stage 30ft. deep. Proscenium width 27ft. Phone 470. Demolished 1961.
Town Hall J. J. Gray (1907)

AMESBURY Wilts
LITTLE THEATRE 1931: Props. Little Theatre (Amesbury) Ltd. Amesbury, Salisbury
PLAZA THEATRE (AWH) Opened 1934. Architect: Bottoms & Brown (Bath) – (Sally McGrath). Prop., Amesbury Cinemas, Phone Amesbury 554. Booked at Hall. Prop., Duncan & Co. 500 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous nightly. Mat. Sat. Occasional Variety, Prices 6d. to 2s. Proscenium width 24ft. Stage, 16ft. deep. Cafe. Phone Amesbury 554. Station, Amesbury, SR. Closed c1990. Immediately demolished.

AMPTHILL Beds
County Court Hall f. (1907)
KINEMA St Luke’s Church Hall (AWH) - Prop., J. H. S. Baggott, 1 Westhourne Grove, I.uton. 300 seats. Booked by Prop. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Station, Ampthill L.M.S. (Closed).
ZONITA CINEMA Bedford Street. Opened 1937. Closed 1960, Roses factory and shop -now offices. ‘Rose Walk’.

ANDOVER Hants
Adelaide Assembly Rooms, f., F, Beale (1907)
CLASSIC / ODEON THEATRE / PALACE Junction Road Opened 1926. Architect: F. Henshaw. 1931: A. N. Kendal Ltd. proprs. To Odeon 1935, re-named c.1937. By 1941: (WE) Prop; Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695- Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berk Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Phone Andover 208. Stage. Two dressing-rooms. To Classic & re-named 1967. Part-time bingo from 1968. Bingo /film split. Films end 1973. Full time bingo from 1973 to date (now Mecca).
NEW THEATRE West Street 1931: T. Webb, propr.
REEL Anton Mill [4 screens / 650 seats; part of development including ASDA supermarket. Cinema for May 2007, to be run by Reel Cinemas]
REX near Market Place (BTP) - Prop., Andover Cinema Theatre Co., Ltd. 450 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous from 2 pm Prices 9d. to 2s. 4d. Proscenium width 25ft. Stage, approximately 25ft. Three dressing-rooms. Phone Andover 92. Station Andover Junction, SR.
SAVOY London Street (RCA) - Props., Savoy, (Andover) Ltd. 1,004 seats. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Continuous. Booked at The Rex. Phone 624. Station, Andover Junction. Later seats: 240. Closed 8th March 2002. Now bar/ nightclub.
Town Hall f., J. Choules (1907)

ANNFIELD PLAIN Co. Durham
CASTLE PICTURE PALACE Catchgate Opened 9th November 1911.
Co-operative Hall Adam Brown (1907)
KING’S PAVILION Picture Theatre Newgate Street Opened pre-1912. 1929 lessees: Annfield Plain Palace Ltd. By 1941: (BTP) Prop., T. Cass Craven. 830 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly Prices 4d. to 8d. Phone Annfield Plain 22 Station, Annfield Plain, L.N.E.R.
King's Hall off Main Street Opened 25th April 1912.
Miner’s Hall Destroyed by fire early 8th October 1913 - caretaker’s house was saved. Damage £9,000, covered by insurance.
PALACE – Prop., Palace (Annfield Plain) Ltd. Res. man. T. Foster. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d to 9d. Seating 950. Licensed for music and dancing. Station, Annfield Plain (KYB20)

ANNITSFORD Northumb
CORA CINEMA / Coronation Hall (Knighfone) -Props., Reno Cinemas, Ltd., 2, Prudhoe Street, Newcastle on-Tyne. 450 seats. One show nightly. Two on Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Dudley 221. Stations, Annitsford, L.N.E.R.

ANSTEY Leics
REGENT CINEMA Forest Gate (ISS) - Prop. L. Rodwell, 2, Ellis Street, Anstey. Phone Anstey 111. Once nightly. Continuous Sat. from 5 pm. Mat., Mon. and Sat. 304 seats. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Hall. Proscenium width 24ft. Phone Anstey 111. Stations, Leicester. Films per transport.

APPLEBY Westmoreland
KINEMA
Market Hall J. C. Alderson (1907)
Tufton Assembly Rooms John Halifax (1907)

APPLEDORE N. Devon
GAIETY Cinema Irsha Street Opened post-WW1 – conversion of 1893 chapel. (Browns) -Prop., G. Taylor. 300 seats. Booked at Hall. Pictures and occasional Variety. Continuous. Prices 6d. 9d., and 1s. Stage 9ft. deep; one dressing-room. Station, Bideford. Closed 1959. Now private residence.
Public Hall, f., Harold R. Moody (1907)

ARLESEY Beds.
COSY CINEMA (Gyrotone) -160 seats. Con¬tinuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Booked at King’s Lynn. Phone 2335. Road Transport. Cambs. & District Transport Co.
PREMIER CINEMA (Morrison) -Prop., A. H. Street, 4 The Gardens, Arlesey Road, Stotfold. 250 seats. Once nightly. Three shows Saturday. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Transport, Three Counties.
The Institute D. W. Flunder (1907)

ARMLEY Yorks
Dennison Hall (1907)
Temperance Hall John Parker (1907)

ARNOLD Notts
Baptist School Room Frederick Hartshorn (1907)
BONINGTON THEATRE (1) Nottingham Road/Arnot Hill Road Opened 31st January 1930 - The Singing Fool + on stage The Hengler Brothers and Jimmy James. Prop. Joseph Wardle. Architect: George F Greenwood. Built over & around St. Albans. 1,000 seats. Full stage with flies, dressing rooms and full stage equipment. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Jos. Wardle, Bentwell House, Arnold. Phone No. 68145. 900 seats. Booked at HO. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 3d. Station, Daybrook, L.N.E.R. CinemaScope. Stage Play licence from opening to 31st January 1955. Closed Saturday 30th March 1957 - Nowhere to Go. Shops/storage. 1959 sold. Demolished April 1963. Shops on site.
BONINGTON THEATRE (2) Arnold Leisure Centre High Street Opened 1982. Still open
KING’S THEATRE / EMPRESS PICTURE HOUSE Front Street Opened Thursday 8th May 1913. 1922: Prop. Joseph Wardele. Head office Nelson Road Arnold. Twice weekly. Res. mgr. J. Wardele. Prices 5d to 1s. Station, Daybrooke, G.N.R. 127 miles (?to London) Closed Saturday 6th December 1930. Re-opened as King’s Thursday 22nd November 1934. By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Jos. Wardle, Bentwell House, Arnold, Notts. Phone Arnold 68145. 600 seats. Continuous. Booked at H O. Prices 7d. to 1s. Station, Daybrook, L.N.E.R. Closed Saturday 27th December 1947.
PAVILION ELECTRIC THEATRE Opened Wednesday 31st January 1912. Closed mid-December 1912.
St. ALBAN’S PICTUREDROME Nottingham Road/Arnot Hill Road Opened Thursday Boxing Day 1912 - The Wedding Present + ‘turns’. Prop. Joseph Wardle. Architect W. H. Higginbottom. First purpose-built theatre/cinema in Arnold. 500 seats. Prices 3d and 6d. Pictures & variety. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Closed Tuesday 31st December 1929. Over-built by Bonington (1)

ARUNDEL Sussex
ARUN Cinema Opened 9th January 1939. Architect E. Norman Bailey. 456 seats. Prop., Rickenya, Ltd., Arundel. Phone Arundel 2237. Closed 1959. Later demolished.
ELECTRIC PALACE Opened 1912
THEATRE (1) (2) A barn-theatre and wooden theatre predated next entry.
THEATRE (3) 18 Maltravers Street Henry Thornton 1807. £1,300. Ground lease 60 years. Built of white bricks with slate roof: rear in Gothic style as overlooked Arundel Castle. Fell out of use in 1835. Fee simple bought by Chas. New 1834, who demolished it. Front wall still stands as house on site of stage – garden, site of auditorium.
Town Hall Wm. Searle (1907)

ASCOT and SUNNINGHILL Berks
Cordes Memorial Hall (1907)
SUNNINGHILL PICTURE HOUSE – Prop. Capt. H. Brooke. Res. man. C. W. Searle. Once nightly. Mat. Sat. Two changes weekly. 5d. to 1s. 3d. Seating 300. Licensed for music and dancing. Station, Ascot, L.S.W.R.

ASH Kent
School Room (1907)

ASHBOURNE Derbys
ELITE Cinema Market Place (BA) 1941 - Lessee Frank S. Bromwich, 76 Belper Road, Ashbourne. 550 seats. Booked by Prop. Continuous. Mats. on Thurs. and Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. 9d. Proscenium width 21ft. Phone Ashbourne 121. Station Ashbourne L.M.S. or F.T.S. Closed 1976. Split into two levels. Now clothes/shoes factory shop.
EMPIRE King Edward Street (BA) Opened 1912. By 1941 - Lessee, Frank S. Bromwich, 76 Belper Road. 400 seats. Continuous. Mat. Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Elite Cinema, Ashbourne. Phone 121. Proscenium width 18ft. Station, L.M.S. & Film Transport. Now a Club.
Town Hall, f., H. Wright (1907)

ASHBURTON, Devon
Market Hall f., Sawdye & Son (1907)
Town Hall North Street SG46 ‘available for stage plays and concerts when not in use by cinematograph.’
RITZ / PICTURE HOUSE North Street Opened 1955. Converted to flats.
The Den East Street Now within an hotel.
The Pit West Street Closed 1954, now residential.

ASHBY nr. Scunthorpe, Lincs
ROXY / GLOBE CINEMA Main Street (BTP) – Opened 1927. Prop., W. H. Webster, Grand Theatre, Brigg. Phone Brigg 2131. 750 seats. First sound – BA Duosonic 1929. Booked at Brigg Office. Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Phone 518. Station, Scunthorpe, L.N.E.R. Sold and renamed. Closed November 1973 after projection box fire. Now bar. (extras - M. Brader)

ASHBY-de-la-ZOUCH Leics
Floral Hall / ASHBY THEATRE J. W., Beadsmoore (1907)
Lyceum
Market Hall Assembly Rooms f., R. Baggott (1907)
The PICTURE HOUSE Derby Road (WE) -Prop., Ilkeston Cinema Co., Ltd., Bath Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Phone Ilkeston 17. 471 Seats. Booked at King’s P.H., Ilkeston. Twice nightly. Mat. Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 20ft. Phone Ashby-de-la-Zouch 111. Station, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, L.M.S.

ASHFORD Kent
ASHFORD THEATRE fl. 1953. Owned by Workingmen’s Club. (TOIB)
CINEMA Beaver Road (WE) -Prop., The Cinema (Ashford) Ltd. 833 seats. Booked at Hall. Continu¬ous. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 35ft. Stage, 20ft. deep. Three dressing-rooms. Phone Ashford 124. Station, Ashford, SR. Exchange
CINEWORLD Bockhanger Eureka Leisure Park 12 screens / 2,200 seats
EXCHANGE THEATRE / Corn Exchange Bank Street - Opened 1862 f., Charles Creery (1907) By 1940 - Prop., Ashford Entertainments Co., Ltd. Occasional shows. Proscenium width 24ft. Stage, 24 ft deep. Five dressing-rooms. Dance Hall. Closed and demolished 1966.
GARRISON THEATRE Rep in 1954 – Tudor Players (Richard Gale) Demolished.
ODEON THEATRE High Street (BTH) Opened 31st August 1936 – Strike Me Pink. Architect: Andrew Mather. 1570 seats. 1941 - Props., Odeon (Ash¬ford) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Pictures and Variety. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous from a p.m. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 39ft. Stage- Cafe-Restaurant attached. Phone Ashford 496. Station, Ashford, SR. Closed 30th August 1975 – The Four Musketeers. 1976 – Bingo, now Mecca.

ASHFORD Middx
ASTORIA Church Street (RCA) Opened 1936. Architect: David E. Nye. -- Props., Perrin & Perrin. 1,140 seats. Prices 8d. to 2s. 6d. Booked at Hall. Proscenium width 48ft. Cafe and Dance Hall attached. Phone 2571. Station, Ashford, Mddx. Closed to film 1975. Bingo to July 1998. Demolished.

ASHINGTON Northumb
BUFFALO C1NEMA Station Road (BTH) – Props.: Joe & Ethel Lamb as Pic. Pal. By 1941: Prop., Wallaw Pictures, Ltd. Man, Dir., W, Lawson. Continuous, once on Sunday. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Ashington 31. Station, Ashington, L.N.E.R. Closed 1967. Supermarket. Demolished.
Craig’s Hall, J. Craig (1907)
HIPPODROME North Seaton Opened 1914. By 1941: (BTP) -Prop., Wm. Henderson, ‘ Stavordale,’ Morwick Road, Warkworth. Phone 54. 950 seats. Booked at Hall, Continuous. Prices 7d. and 10d. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Ashington 122, Station, North Seaton, L.N.E.R. Closed and demolished 1970s.
Linton Miners’ Hall (1907)
Miners’ Theatre (No 3) Fred Gould (1907) Opened as a full-time cinema in 1912 by Walter Lawson. Re-named Regal c.28 and later rebuilt.
PAVILION THEATRE Opened 1910. Theatre then cinema. (BTH) -Prop., Wallaw Pictures, Ltd. Man. Dir., W, Lawson. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Ashington 6. Station, Ashington, L.N.E.R. Closed 1961. Now Gala Bingo.
REGAL THEATRE Station Road. Opened 1939 - (WE) Props., Wallaw Pictures, Ltd. Man. Dir., W. Lawson. 1,422 seats. Booked at H O., Woodhorn Road. Twice nightly, once on Sun. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Ashington. Closed 1979, demolished 1989/90.
WALLAW CINEMA Prop., Wallaw Pictures, Ltd., Wallaw Buildings, Ashington, Northumb. Phone 31. Closed 1982. Converted to shops and slot machines.

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD Lancs
PALACE Bryn Street 483 seats. Bought by ABC 1936. By 1941: (BTP) -Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, W. 1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 500 seats. Booked at H O. Twice nightly. Phone Ashton-in-Makerfield 7304. Station, Bryn, L.M.S. Closed 2nd March 1966. Now shops and slot machines.
QUEEN’S PICTURE HOUSE (WE) - Prop. Ashton-in-Makerfield Picture House Co., Ltd. 868 seats. Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Phone Ashton-in-Makerfield 7166. Station, Bryn, L.M.S.
SCALA CINEMA Heath Road (WE) - Props., Doman Enterprises, Ltd., 11/13, Victoria Street, Liverpool. 550 seats. Twice nightly. Mat., Mon. and Thurs. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d. Booked by W. J. Speakman, 10, Commutation Row, Liverpool. Proscenium width 22ft. Stage, 10ft. Three dressing-rooms. Phone Ashton 7337. Stations, Ashton-in-Makerfield, L.N.E.R., & Bryn, L.M.S.

ASHTON-under-LYNE Lancs
CINEWORLD Ashton Moss 14 screens / 2,700 seats. Opened September 2002
Co-operative Hall (1907)
IDEAL PICTURE PALACE Opened 1909 by Messrs. Mills, Herbert, & Barrett.
METRO / ODEON / GAUMONT / MAJESTIC PICTURE HOUSE Old Street (WE) Opened 22nd April 1920. Architect: Arnold England. 1,233 seats. 1936: Organ: Compton 2/6 single chamber - fixed console (ex-Liverpool Rialto). By 1941 - Prop., Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, Ltd., New Gallery House, Regent Street, W1. Phone Regent 8080. 1,500 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous during week. Separate shows on Sats. and Holidays. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Occasional Variety. Proscenium width 35ft. Stage, 18ft.; three dressing rooms. Phone Ashton 1993. Station, Charlestown, L.M.S. Became Gaumont c.1946. Odeon 1962. As Metro from 1981 seated 977. Closed.
NEW PAVILION ELECTRIC opened 1912 by the Broadhead Circuit – The Little Railroad Queen
Oddfellows’ Hall J. Jenkins (1907)
PICTURE PAVILION Old Street (WE) - Props. Pavilion (Ashton-under-Lyne) Ltd. 1,300 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 35ft. Phone Ashton 1895. Stations, Charlestown, L.M.S., & Park Parade & Oldham Road, L.N.E.R. Still open in 1953 (TOIB)
PICTUREDROME Opened 1909 by Weisker Brothers.
QUEEN’S ELECTRIC THEATRE Wellington Road (WE) - Prop., Queen’s Cinema (Ashton-under-Lyne) Ltd. 905 seats. Seventeen shows weekly. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Ashton 2375. Station, Charlestown, L.M.S. Buxton circuit proposed to restore live shows 1946.
ROXY (BTH) -Props., Roxy Cinema (Ashton) Ltd. 1,154 seats. Prices 8d. to 1s. 2d. Con¬tinuous. Mats., Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Booked at Mayfair Cinema, Whitefield, Manchester. Variety, Tues. only. Booked through P. Simister, 27, Bournelea Avenue, Burnage, Manchester. Proscenium width 36ft. Two dressing-rooms. Phone 1511. Station, Ashton (Charlestowon).
RYCROFT PICTURE PALACE William Street – Prop., Hulme Hargreaves, Ltd. Res. man. W. Owers. Two shows nightly. Mat. Sat. Three changes weekly. Prices 2½d. to 7d. Seating 620. Full licence. Voltage 240. Station. Charlestown, L. & Y.R.
STAMFORD CINEMA - Props., Snape & Ward, 24, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Booked at Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542.
STAR PICTURE THEATRE / PICTUREDROME / ASHTON HIPPODROME / STAR THEATRE Church Street Opened 1879. Converted to cinema & & opened as Ashton Hipp. 28 September 1909. 3rd October – second week re-named Picturedrome - ‘World in Motion Pictures’. Weisker Bros. involvement. By 1941 as Star P T: (BTH) 644 seats. Continuous nightly. Two Mats. weekly. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone 1124. Station, Charlestown, L.M.S. Closed, 1947. Demolished: ?early 60s.
TAMESIDE THEATRE / ABC / EMPIRE SUPER CINEMA / EMPIRE HIPPODROME Oldham Road Opened 1903. Broadhead tour. Seats 1,274 – 744 stalls, 530 circle & gallery. Mgr W. Leech (1907) Became cinema 1932. Rebuilt cinema-style by Drury & Gomersall 1933. 1,600 seats. Prosc 35’ x 25’, 4’ deep, grid 48’. Kalee projectors. BTP sound. By 1941: (BTP) - Controlled by Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone. Whitehall 8484. Booked at H O. Contin¬uous, from 6.15. Mon. to Fri., Mats, daily except Fri., three shows on Sat. Prices 9d. to 1s. 3d. Occasional Variety. Proscenium width 36ft. Stage, 43ft.; nine dressing rooms. Phone Ashton-under-Lyne 2095. Station, Charlestown, L.M.S. Renamed ABC c.1963. Closed 5th March 1975. Re-opened as Tameside Theatre 15th March 1976.
THEATRE ROYAL Oldham Road (No 3) Charles Revill (1907) Prop., Theatre Royal (Ashton-under-Lyme) Ltd. Opened 14th September 1891. Architect: Frank Matcham. Prosc. 29’, 45’ deep, 75’ wall to wall. Cap. 3,000. ?Films from 1908. Converted to cinema 1931. Back to theatre in 1937. (BTP) -Lessees, Ashton New Cinema, Ltd. 1,700 seats. Closed 1957. Demolished 1972.
Town Hall, f., J. Neal (1907)

ASKERN nr. Doncaster Yorks
PICTURE HOUSE Market Place (WE) -Prop., New Star Cinemas (London) Ltd., New Star Cinema, Aire Street, Castleford. 750 seats. Con¬tinuous. Booked at H.O. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d. Films by Motor Transport. Closed in 60s. Supermarket.

ASPATRIA Cumb
PALACE CINEMA (BA) -Props., C. H. Over & Sons, Market Square, Aspatria. 500 seats. Booked at Newcastle. Picture and Variety, Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices. 6d. to 1s. Stage 16ft. deep. Two dressing rooms. Phone Aspatria 15. Station, Aspatria, L.M.S. Closed. Bingo.
Public Hall, Cephas Bouch (1907)

ASTLEY Lancs
The CINEMA (BA) - 420 seats
REGENT

ASTON Warwickshire - see Birmingham

ATHERSTONE Warks
Corn Exchange f., Harry Charnell (1907)
PICTUREDROME 1919 props., J. Z. Brigges & H. E. Vero. Interior re-constructed 1931: architects: H. G. Bradley & Clarke. By 1941: (AWH) - Props., Picturedrome (Atherstone) Ltd., 39, Cornwall Street. Birmingham. Phone Central 7245. 380 seats. Continuous Mon., Thurs. and Sat.; once nightly Tues., Wed, and Fri. Mat. Sat. Sun. at 7.30 p.m. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Booked by V. I. Oliver, 637, Stratford Road, Birmingham. Proscenium width 16ft. Phone Atherstone 2220. Station, Atherstone, L.M.S.
REGAL CINEMA (RCA) Opened 28th September 1937. Architect: Harold S. Scott. Props., Regal (Ather¬stone) Ltd., 89, Cornwall Street, Birmingham. Phone Central 7245. 744 seats. Booked by V. I. Oliver at The Savoy, 687, Stratford Road, Birmingham. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Continuous evenings. Mats. Thurs and Sat. Sun. at 7.30 p.m. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Atherstone 2220. Station, Atherstone, L.M.S. Sold to Mayfair crcuit. To ABC 1943. To independent 1960. Closed 1987. Demolished for housing.

ATHERTON Lancs
GEM KYB20
PALACE Market Street (BTP) - Prop., Eagle Picturedromes, Ltd. Booked by T. C. Robinson. Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Atherton 57. Demolished.
SAVOY Market Street (WE) - Props., Eagle Picturedromes, Ltd., County Playhouse, Ring Street, Wigan. T. C. Robinson. 814 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s.2d. Twice nightly. Phone Atherton 57. Station, Atherton. Snooker club.
Volunteer Hall Sergt.-Inst. Hodder (1907)

ATTERCLIFFE Yorks - see Sheffield

ATTLEBOROUGH Norfolk
Corn Hall f., James Bacon (1907)
Drill Hall (1907)
REGAL CINEMA - Prop., Bostock Cinema Circuit 45, Chevalier Street, Ipswich. 450 seats. Booked at H. O. Once nightly, two shows Sat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Station, Attle¬borough, L.N.E.R.

AUDLEY Staffs
THE PALACE / CORONATION P.P. Hall Street 1919: Oakes & Turner. Res. man. P. Turner. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., E. H. Plant, ‘ The Laurels,’ King’s Avenue, Wolstanton. Phone Newcastle 67166. 525 seats. Booked at The Laurels, King’s Avenue, Wolstanton. Continuous. Prices 3d. to 1s. 2d. Films hy Road Transport. Station, Longport.

AVONMOUTH Glos
Avonmouth Hotel Hall f., C. Stone. (1907)
CINEMA Collins Street (BTH) -Prop., S. L. Kellett, 500 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Station Avonmouth Dock, G.W.R.
PORTVIEW CINEMA Collins Street 1919 props., Avonmouth & Portishead Picture Houses Ltd. Res. man. W. J. Rolph. Two shows nightly. two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 9d. Licensed for music. Voltage 365. Station Avonmouth Dock

AXMINSTER Devon
NEW CINEMA Prop. & Res. man. W. H. G. Newbury. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d to 1s. 3d. Seating 300. Station, Axminster.
PLAZA / GUILDHALL CINEMA West Street Opened c1925. (BA) -Prop., Axminster Guildhall Co., Ltd. 514 seats. Booked at Hall. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Non-continuous. Stage, 26ft.; two dressing rooms. Dance Hall. Phone Axminster 2123. Station Axminster, SR. Closed to film 1960s. Now multi-purpose venue.
REGENT CINEMA Market Square Castle Hill Prop. Mr. Walford. Some live shows.

AYLESBURY Bucks
GRANADA / (Grand) PAVILION High Street Orig. opened 2nd March 1925. Architect: C. H. Wright. 800 seats. Closed 1936 and re-vamped and enlarged – Robert Cromie. Opened 4th January 1937 – 1,234 seats. By 1941: (RCA) -Prop., London & District Cinemas, Ltd., Capitol Cinemas, Church Street Epsom, Surrey. Phone Epsom 99876. 1,240 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Phone Aylesbury 242. Station, Aylesbury, L.N.E.R. Bought by Granada 1946 and renamed in June 1947. Closed as cinema 7th October 1972. Now Gala Bingo & Social Club.
MARKET THEATRE Market Square (RCA) - Opened 21st January 1911. Prop., Aylesbury Electric Theatre Co. 400 seats. Easter Saturday 1924 gutted by fire. Re-built & re-opened 22nd December 1924. Architects: Taylor & White. 648 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 5.45 p.m. Two mats. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Aylesbury 242 Station, Aylesbury. 1953 – open as New Market under Theatre Aylesbury Ltd. Closed 1954. Stalls levelled to form Grosvenor rink / ballroom. Later Borough Hall. Closed c1980, and later demolished.
ODEON / ABC Superplex Cattle Market 6 screens / 1,434 seats
ODEON THEATRE Cambridge Street (BTH) Opened 21st June 1937 - Dimples. Architect Andrew Mather. 1451 seats. 1941 - Prop., Odeon Theatres, Ltd. Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Continuous, from 2 p.m daily. Sun. from 7.30 pm. Stage; four dressing-room. Phone Aylesbury 660. Tripled 1973. Re0furbished 1984. Closed 30th October 1999. Demolished 2005.
STAR PAVILION / COUNTY / ROYAL Cambridge Street fl. 1900 – 1910 Tent or wooden building in Borough Arms field. Presented Melodramas. Offered ‘armchairs with anti-macassars – 1/6’.
TOWN HALL KINEMA / Town Hall f., P.A. Wright (1907) 1919: Prop. C. Senior. Continuous show. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 2s. Seating 450. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 220. Station, Aylesbury, G.C.R., & Metropolitan.

AYLSHAM Norfolk
COUNTY CINEMA - Props., V. E. H. Cinemas, Ltd., 45, Dereham Road, Norwich. Now Youth Centre.
Town Hall f., Walter E. Tuttle (1907)
Aylsham - Travelling show - H. Sultings.

B

BACUP Lancs
Co-operative Assembly Rooms W. Maden (1907)
EMPIRE / ART PICTURE PALACE / COURT THEATRE PICTURE PALACE / NEW COURT THEATRE / ROYAL COURT THEATRE Rochdale Road Opened 1893: converted from 1850 iron works. Prop., John Walters. Architects: Walters & Love (with Charles G Cook). New Court Theatre - F. Denman Wood (1907) c.1918: To Jackson’s Amusements. By 1941: (WE) -Prop., Jackson’s Amusements Ltd., Hippodrome, Rochdale. Phone 3212. Booked at Rialto Theatre, Rochdale. 1017 seats. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. Stage and seven dressing-rooms. Phone Bacup 259. Station, Bacup L.M.S. 948: Upper circle removed. Star Cinemas. 1953: Cinema & variety (TOIB) Closed. 1969: bought by Bacup Amateur Op. & Dram. Society to date. 485 seats.
KOSY / GEM / Public Hall Burnley Road Opened as cinema 1910. 1919: Kosy Prop. Wilmore & Wishey. Res. man. Joe Mellor. One show daily. Two on Sat. Two changes weekly. 3d to 1s. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 120. Station, Bacup L.&Y. closed and demolished for Regal.
Mechanics’ Hall f., Levet Brown (1907)
REGAL SUPER CINEMA Burnley Road (WE) (formerly KOZY) Re-built 1931: architect: Harry Cropper, FFAS. By 1941: Prop., The Valley Enter¬tainments (Waterfoot) Ltd. 960 seats. Twice nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Stage. Proscenium, 45ft. Phone Bacup 104. Closed. Bingo. Derelict. Sold at televised auction in 2006 for £181,000.
ROSENDALE THEATRE fl. 1893 (Hannah)

BACKWORTH Northumb
MINERS THEATRE (AWH) - Props., A. & R. Henderson, 3 Coronation Street, Annetsford, Dudley R.S.O. 400 seats. Prices 3d. to 9d. Booked at Hall. Proscenium width 16ft.; stage 12ft.; two dressing-rooms. Station, Backworth, L.N.E.R.

BAGNOR nr Newbury Berks
WATERMILL THEATRE Opened 1967. Converted from barn. Seats 113 – s: 69, c: 44. Private theatre in Shax. or early Restoration shape.

BAGSHOT Surrey
ELCTRIC CINEMA 1919: Prop. Vernon & Martin. Res. man. E. Vernon. Continuous. Two changes weekly. 4d. to 1s. 6d. Seating 300. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 110.
PRINCES CINEMA High Street (BTH) -Prop., Border (Berks) Cinemas, Ltd. 355 seats. Booked at 53, West Hill, Wembley Park, Middx. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Bagshot 195. Station, Bagshot, SR.

BAILDON nr. Shipley, Yorks
PICTURE HOUSE Northgate Opened 1917. By 1941: (WE) – KYB20 By 1941: Props., Granby Picture House Co., Ltd., Baildon. 400 seats. Booked by Props. Once nightly. Three shows Sat. Prices 4d. to 9d. Pro¬scenium width 24ft. Cafe attached. Phone Shipley 1056. Station, Shipley, L.M.S. To A. S. Hyde Circuit - Baildon Cinema Co. Booked by A. S. Hyde at H.O. Shipley. Closed 1960. Demolished.

BAKEWELL Derby
PICTURE HOUSE Haddon Road (WE) - Prop., Holmwood Picture Palace Co., Ltd., Grayfriars, Bakewell Road, Matlock. Phone Matlock 72. 655 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 9d. Pro¬scenium width 38ft. Phone Bakewell 144. Station, Bakewell, L.M.S. Demolished.
Town Hall f., E. Morewood Longsdon (2907)

BALDOCK Herts
ASTONIA High Street Opened c.April 1939. Prop. Noel A. Ayres. Architect: H. V. J. Dutton. 810 seats. Part-time bingo October 1967. Closed to film 30th December 1969 – Jack the Giantkiller and Ride the Wind. Bingo. Closed 30th June 1985. Demolished for OAP flats.
CINEMA 34 White Horse Street Opened Monday 22nd September 1913. c.400 seats - one raked floor. Reversed auditorium. Once nightly, three on Sat. Two changes weekly. To Noel A. Ayres c.1928. Café added. By 1940: Prop., Baldock Cinema Co., Ltd. 500 seats. Continuous. Prices 5d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Baldock 88. Cafe attached. Station, Baldock. Films by Herts & Beds Transport. Closed c.1940. WWII - storage. Commercial use.
Public Hall f., Wm. Marriott (1907)

BAMBER BRIDGE Lancs
EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE (Electrocord) - 400 Seats.

BANBURY Oxon
BANBURY THEATRE
Cadbury Memorial Hall Wm. Coulthard (1907)
GRAND THEATRE Broad Street Opened 1911. rebuilt in ?early 30s after fire. By 1941 - (Imperial) Prop., E. A. Bagley. 950 seats. Cinema from WWI. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Phone Banhury 2159. Station, Banbury. Closed 1968. To bingo. Now Chicago Rock Café.
NEW THEATRE Opened 1832. Sill stands – internally gutted.
ODEON / ABC / CANNON / CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / REGAL Horsefair (RCA) - Opened 7th October 1940 – The Four Feathers. Architect: A. P. Starkey. Props., Rickenya, Ltd., Arun Theatre, Arundel. Phone Arundel 2237. 897 seats. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Continuous. Booked at Arundel. Phone Banbury 2071, Station, Banbury. To Southan Morris. To Essoldo 26th August 1954 & re-named 1956. To Classic 2nd April 1972. Twinned 28th January 1973 - 1: 482; 2: 23.
PALACE THEATRE Market Square (BA) Opened 1857. Rebuilt 1916. Cinema from c.1924. Con¬trolled by Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. Continu¬ous. Phone Danbury 2254. Station, Banbury, G.W.R.&Film Transport. Now a bank.
PICTURE HOUSE 1919: Prop. T. & N. Blinkhorn. Res. man. H. N. Blinkhorn. Continuous. Two changes weekly. 5d. to 1s. 3d. Seating 400. Licensed for music and dancing.Voltage 460.
THEATRE ROYAL f., Geo. S. King (1907)

BARKING Essex
ABC / CAPITOL East Street Opened 21st October 1929. Architect J. Aldridge. Prop., W. F. Lesadd. Organ: Standaart. To ABC 19th May 1930. By 1941: (WE) -Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd. 1,266 seats. Continuous. Booked at H.O. Phone Rippleway 2702. Station, Barking. Closed 12th December 1959. Demolished, now part of M&S.
ACE / ABC / STATE Barkingside (RCA) – Opened October 1938. Architect: George Coles. Props., Kay Bros., 185, Wardour Street. Phone Gerrard 2835. 2,500 seats, Prices 6d. to 2s. Continuous, Booked at H.O. Cafe and Dance Hall attached, Phone Valentine 5767. Station, Ilford. To ABC from Monday 16th February 1948 – Mine Own Executioner. Re-named 1964. 1972 – bingo/ circle film split. Cinema closed 4th December 1976. Cinema returned under Ace. 1982 Closed 30th April 1984. Whole building bingo. Now Gala.
Animated Pictures Bull St
BROADWAY THEATRE / BIOSCOPE PICTURE THEATRE Broadway Opened 1914. 560 seats. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Broadway Cinema (Barking) Ltd., 152/253, Minories, E.C.3. Phone Royal 6896. 560 seats, Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. Booked in London, Proscenium width 21ft. Phone Rippleway 3512. Station, Barking, L.M.S. Demolished late 1940s.
CENTRAL HALL Mission 1,400 cap. Destroyed by enemy action January 1945. Ruins demolished.
CINEMATOGRAPH / PICTURELAND / Public Baths Concert Hall
ODEON / RIO Longbridge Road (RCA) Opened 1935 by Kay Bros. Architect: George Coles. Props., Kessex Cinemas, Ltd., 142 Wardour Street, W1. Phone Gerrard 5252. 2,200 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Pictures and Variety. Prices 6d. to 2s. 6d. Phone Grangewood 2900. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Stage Amplification. Sold to Rank’s G.C.F. Renamed Odeon 1945.Tripled 1974. Closed 1998. Demolished, flats on site.
REGENT / ELECTRIC THEATRE & Vaudeville / ELECTRIC THEATRE de LUXE Rippell Road Opened July 1910. prp., A. E. Martin. Sold, re-furbisjed, re-opened as Electric September 1923. Props., Rose & Bockner. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Rose & Bockner, 808 seats. Con¬tinuous from 1 p.m. Two changes weekly, Prices 4d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Rip. 2657, Station, Barking, L.M.S. 1955 sold to D. Freedman & re-named Regent. 750 seats. Closed 14th July 1956. Supermarket. Demolished for shops.
THEATRE-de-LUXE Bamford Road/Wakering Road Opened c1914. Prop., Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd. !922: prop. Arthur Blake. Closed c.1925. Workshop / 2nd-hand furniture store / sausage factory. Demolished. Council almshouses. Demolished for ring road.

BARLESTONE Leics
CINEMA - Thur. and Sat. only, Prices 4d. to 1s.
COSY CINEMA

BARNARD CASTLE Co. Durham
Music Hall, f. (1907)
SCALA CINEMA 13 Galgate (WE) – 1929: Rt. Sutherland, propr. By 1941: Prop., M.B.C. Cinemas, Ltd, 500 seats. Booked at Hippodrome, Workington. Twice nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s.3d. Phone Barnard Castle 50. Station, Barnard Castle, L.N.E.R. Still running in 73 (Westrex)
VICTORIA CINEMA / Victoria Hall, Birch Road f., T. Borrowdale (1907) 1929: Alfd. Stewart, propr.
WYCLIFFE CINEMA 42a Bank 1929: Prop.: Major Kirkup. By 1941: (Mihaly) - Prop., H. B. C. Cinemas. 750 seats. Booked at Newcastle or Workington. Continuous, Prices 3d, to 1s. Station, Bamard Castle, L.N.E.R.

BARNET Herts
ESSOLDO / DOMINION (WE) Opened 31 October 1938. Architect F. E. Bromige after Edgar Simmons. 1941 - Fred. W. Allwood Circuit, Wallace House, 113-117 Wardour Street W1. Phone Gerrard 1363. 1,000 seats, Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Continuous. Booked at H O. Phone Barnet 4450. Station, New Barnet. Closed 21st December 1967 – My Fair Lady. Demolished for supermarket.
GAUMONT / BARNET CINEMA / CINEMA PALACE 122 High Street Opened Boxing Day 1912 Re-named & circle added 1926. Talkies Monday 17th February 1930 – The Trial of Mary Dugan. Modernised & new frontage c.1934. To Odeon c.1936. 1,038 seats. 1941 (WE) - Prop., Odeon (High Barnet) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 4d. Stage, Phone Barnet 0677. Re-named Gaumont January 1955. Closed 8th August 1959 – The Mouse That Roared and Juke Box Rhythm. Demolished for supermarket 1961.
NEW BARNET KINEMA / HIPPODROME / Assembly Rooms Lytton Road f., F. Fergusson (1907) Opened as Hipp cinema 27th April 1925. Prop. M. P. Lawrence. Closed 18 July. To F. H. Melhuish, re-opened as Kinema Saturday 10 October 1925 – Miss Bluebeard and The Floorwalker. Closed Saturday 29th May 1926. Rebuilt as Pic Th.
ODEON THEATRE (BTH) Great North Road Opened 15th May 1935 – bought-in scheme. Architect: Edgar Simmons. Building cost £29,130. 1553 seats. Own electricity. 1941 - Props., Odeon (Theatres) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Prices 9d. to 2s. 4d. Continuous, from 2 p.m. daily, Stage; two dressing-rooms. Phone Barnet 4147. Tripled 1974.
REGAL CINEMA / NEW BARNET PICTURE THEATRE Lytton Road Opened Thursday 11th November 1926. Rebuild of NB Kinema. Prop., F. H. Melhuish. Re-named 1933. To A. W. & R. B. Green. Closed Saturday 26th June 1937. Rebuilt, enlarged, new front. Re-opened Monday 11th October 1937 – Wings of The Morning. Architect: Howes & Jackman. By 1941: Props., Leebert Theatres, Ltd. 500 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Pros¬cenium width 24ft. Stage and two dressing-rooms. Phone Barnet 3010. Station, New Barnet, L.N.E.R. Films by Road Transport. To Classic & closed 28th July 1966 – The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Bingo to 1985 at least.

BARNOLDSWICK Yorks
Albert Hall James Starkey (1907)
ALHAMBRA THEATRE / Palace Roller Skating Rink The Parrock Opened 13th July 1909 – steel frame, corrugated iron sheeting, wooden lining. Opened as Alhambra 1912. Prop. T. Palmer (Leeds). Burned down night 23/24th April 1924. Not rebuilt.
Co-operative Hall (1907)
Queen’s Hall f., W. Watson (1907) listed KYB15
MAJESTIC PICTURE HOUSE (BA) Prop., M. Hartley & Sons, Ltd., Market Buildings. Phone Barnoldswick 122. 700 seats. One show nightly. Two on Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 8d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Leeds. Dance hall attached. Station, Barnolds¬wick, L.M.S. Demolished, library on site.
PEOPLE’S PALACE Public Hall & Skating rink St. James Square Cinema by 1914. 800 seats. 1918 mgr Jack Williams. Prices, 4d to 1s. By 1920, props. Nutter & Brown. 1925 props., People’s Palace Co. Res. mgr. W. Watson Brown. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., People’s Palace (Barnoldswick) Ltd., St. James Square, Barnoldswick. Phone no. 98. 668 seats. Booked at Leeds. Once nightly, twice on Sat, Mats., Wed. and Sat. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d, to 1s. Proscenium width 20ft. Stage, 20ft. deep; six dressing-rooms. Phone Barnoldswick 98. Station, Barnoldswick.
Victoria Hall listed KYB15

BARNSLEY Yorks
ABC / RITZ Peel Street (WE) Opened 22nd March 1937 - My Man Godfrey. Architects Verity & Beverley. 2,007 seats. WurliTzer 3c/7. 1941: Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone. Whitehall 8484. Continuous, Booked at H O. Station, Barnsley, L.M.S. Renamed c.1961. Closed 16th March 1974 with Holiday on the Buses. Demolished.
ALHAMBRA THEATRE Doncaster Road - Opened as theatre 1st October 1915. Architect: Mr. Hinchcliffe. Closed as theatre 8th June 1925. Cinema – Koenigsmark. By 1941: (WE) Prop., Picture House (Barnsley) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks, Phone Marlow 695-9. 2,100 seats, Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks, Continuous from a pm. Prices 4d. to 1s. 6d. Stage; 10 dressing-rooms. Phone Barnsley 3736. Closed by Rank Organisation 1960. Empty. Top Rank bingo 1968. Demolished 1982.
Arcade Assembly Hall, J. Hewitt (1907)
CIVIC THEATRE / PUBLIC HALL Harvey Institute, Eldon Street – Opened 25th January 1878. Props., The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the County Borough of Barnsley, Mgr G.E. Hoey in 1907. January 1908 – disaster when children trampled each other to death before a matinée in James Atroy’s Variety and Picture season. Royal Yorks. Co. 2,000seats (KYB14) 1919: Prop. United Picture Co., Res. Man., Mrs. Coulthard. Two shows nightly. Three matinées weekly. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d to 9d. . Seating 1,500 Licensed for music. Voltage 230. Station, Barnsley. M.R. & G.C.J.C., L.&Y.R. By 1941: Phone 3170. 1,322 seats. Available for Theatrical and Kinematograph Exhibition. 1970s: seats 1,012: movable stalls 586, circle 426.
COSY CINEMA / Temperance Hall / Oddfellows’ Hall Pitt Street Opened as cinema 30 April 1910 - Royal Canadian Pictures. 1,280 seats. (KYB14) 1919: Temperance Hall - Man., C. Wyke. Two shows daily. Two changes weekly. Prices 2d. to 6d. Seating, 550. Voltage, 50.
ELECTRIC THEATRE Eastgate Opened 11th March 1911- props., Electric (Barnsley) Co Ltd. 550 seats. (KYB14) Barnsley’s first purpose-built cinema. 1919: Prop. Jas. Cempy. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 2½d. to 8d. Seating 600. Voltage 220. Station, Barnsley, L. & Y. R. & M. R.
EMPIRE Super CINEMA / New EMPIRE PALACE 62-68 Eldon Street. Opened 8 June 1908. Architects: North & Robins. Props.: Barnsley Empire Palace Company. Cost £17,500. First manager Harry Leacey, followed swiftly by Will Smithson, father of musical-comedy actress Florence Smithson. 1160 seats. Early pictures. (KYB14) By 1941: (BA) - Prop., Gaumont British Pictures Corpn. 1,160 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Barnsley 363. Destroyed by fire 1955. Rebuilt as Gaumont (later Odeon) q.v..
GLOBE PICTURE HOUSE New Street (WE) Opened c September 1914. 1st mgr Stanley Broughton. 1919: Prop. ,Globe Picture House Ltd., Res Man R. H. Whyham. Continuous show daily. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 1s 3d. Se ating, 1,000. Licensed for music and dancing Voltage, 220. Station, Barnsley, M.R., G.C. R. & L. & Y. By 1941: 1941 - Prop. Globe Picture House (Barnsley) Ltd. Res. Man, & Licensee, Mrs. A. Wyham, 872 seats. Booked at Hall, Continuous, Daily Mat, Prices 4d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Barnsley 467. Station Barnsley Court House,
HIPPODROME / Circus Town End Opened as variety theatre 2nd March 1903 - Alec Hurley & Harry Monckton but with films as a regular feature of bill. Reopened 26th December 1903 by Barnsley Hippodrome Syndicate. Geo. Birkill (1907)
ODEON / GAUMONT Eldon Street Opened 27th February 1956 - on site of burned-out Empire. Architects: T. P. Bennett. Seats: 1,283 Re-named 1962. Twinned 1980 - 1: 414 2: 435. Closed 17th September 2005.
PAVILION PICTURE THEATRE / Olympia Skating Rink Opened as rink 20 August 1909. By 1914: prop., Metcalf. 980 seats. (KYB14) 1919: Prop. Mid. Yorkshire Entertainments, Ltd. Res. Man., A Sinclair. Two shows nightly. Matinée Monday. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 1s. Seating, 2,000. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage, 230. Station, Barnsley, M.R. , G.C.R., & L & Y. By 1941: (WE) -Props., Mid-Yorkshire Entertainments, Ltd., 53, Street Lane, Leeds, Phone Leeds 64352. 1,452 seats, Booked at H O. Continuous. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Barnsley 2588. Station, Court House, L.M.S. Burned down 1950.
PRINCESS PICTURE PALACE Town End Opened c1912 – 800 seats (KYB14) 1919: New Century Pictures Ltd. Res. Man., H. Leacey. Continuous. Two matinées weekly. Two changes weekly. Prices 2½d. to 6d. Seating. 850 Licensed for music. Voltage, 230. Station, Barnsley. M. R. By 1941: (BA) Continuous, Prop., New Century Pictures, Ltd. 850 seats. Booked by Gaumont-British Pictures Corpn, Prices 3d. to 9d. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Barnsley 3737.
SAVOY CINEMA Lundwood (BTH) - Props., Lundwood Cinemas, Ltd. 684 seats. Booked at Hall. Prices 4d. to 9d. Proscenium width 45ft. Phone Brierley 42.
STAR PICTURE HOUSE STAR / BRITANNIA PICTURE PALACE Sheffield Road Opened 7th November 1910. 900 seats. (KYB14) Modest brick-built cinema 85 ft in length and 35 ft wide, with seating on a single floor, fitted with tip-up seats in red leather and crimson velvet. The auditorium was decorated in crimson and white. 1919: Prop. C. Wike. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 2d. to 6d. Seating, 700. Voltage 50. By 1941: (BA) - Prop., T. H. Whittaker, 247, Park Road, Barnsley. Phone 3360. 500 seats, Booked at Hall. Continuous. Station, Barnsley. Closed 1959.
THEATRE ROYAL (1) Erected 1814 by Wm. Depledg. Opened as ‘Theatre’ 26th July 1815. 1878 – Salvation Army. Re-opened by public co. led by Joseph Hewitt (?Grimsby brewer) 1888. Closed & Demolished.
THEATRE ROYAL (2) Wellington Street (No 3). Foundation stone 7th June 1898. Opened Mon 29 December 1898 – Morrell & Moullet’s No. 1 Co. – The Geisha. Architect Herbert Crawshaw - cost £16,000. Seats: 1,200. Prosc. 28’, depth 50’ 6’’, 2 scene docks, 8 dressing rooms. A. G. Mitchell in 1907. Damaged by fire 1942. Closed 18th May 1957. 1961: bingo. Now nightclub.
VICTORIA THEATRE ‘The Vic.’ fl. 1953 – touring revue.
Kate Taylor – cinema history notes

BARNSTAPLE Devon
Assembly Room, F. Adams (1907)
CENTRAL / ASTOR / CLASSIC / ODEON / GAUMONT PALACE Boutport Street (BA) Opened 3rd August 1931. Architect: W. H. Watkins. 1,124 seats. 1941 – Prop., Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd., 123, Regent Street, W1, 1,112 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous from 2 p.m. Prices 8d. to 1s. 10d. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Barnstaple 2550. Stations, Barnstaple, G.W.R., & Barnstaple Junction, S. R. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Odeon 1962. to classic 1967. Twinned. Now 4 screens: seats 1: 388 2: 80 app. 3: 80 app. 4: ??
FORESTERS’ HALL THEATRE / PICTURE PALACE Opened as full-time cinema February 1919. Prop. or lessee Albany Ward. 1953: run by Courtney – locally-owned. (TOIB)
JOHN GAY THEATRE SG46: White Heather Productions (Repertory). Booking Agent: John S. Patton, 25, 8. Molton St., W1. Cap.: 225. No works of John Gay may be performed. Once nightly 7.30 Matinee Saturday. Only 10ft. flats can he used. Prosc. opening: 21ft. x 10ft. Elec. equip.: 230 v. D.C. Footlights two, four dips. Lighting to be improved. Dressing rooms: One single, two chorus (acc. 10). No orchestra. Licence for light refreshments to company and staff. In 1953 owned by Andrew Melville (TOIB)
COSY CINEMA / PICTURE PALACE 2 Silver Street Opened 1910. By 1919 prop. Wilfred E. Jones. Closed c.mid-20s? Demolished.
Parish Church Room, Hasfer. (1907)
PICTURE HOUSE 58 High St Opened 1918. Closed 1924, demolished.
QUEEN’S THEATRE / ALBERT HALL / Music Hall, Boutport Street. Part of Corn Exchange of 1855. Several times rebuilt. Oliver J. Nicklin. (1907) Rebuilt by Corp. 1952: seats 814 – S: 514, B: 300.
REGAL The Strand (BTH) -Props., Regal (Barnstaple) Ltd. Continuous, Prices 8d. to 1s. 10d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 20ft.; six dressing-rooms. Phone 2002. Station, Barnstaple G.W.R./S.R. Nightclub since 1982
THEATRE ROYAL Opened 1843 f., Harry Ashton (1907). Closed in 1930. Site used for Gaumont Palace.

BARROW-in-FURNESS Lancs
APOLLO (1) / ASTRA / ABC / RITZ (WE) Opened 14th September 1936 by Union Cinemas. Architects: Drury & Gomersall (+ local F. J. Parker). Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S. W. Booked at H O. 1,735 seats. Three shows daily. Phone Barrow 999. Station, Barrow Central. 1950 mgr C. B. B. Crisp. Renamed ABC c.1961. Closed 15th January 1977 – became Astra and tripled. Closed 1999 as Apollo multiplex opened. Demolished 2004.
APOLLO (2) Hollywood Park, Hindpool Road LA14 2NA Seats: 1: 117 2: 102 3: 257 4: 256 5: 117 6: 117
Carlisle Palace Opened 1873. Closed & demolished 1903.
Central Hall, H. Gaythorpe (1907)
CIVIC HALLS Duke Street Seats 960. Prosc. 31’
CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / GAIETY and PICTUREDOME Abbey Road Opened 22nd March 1913. Built by Capt. Calvert Routledge. 1914 KYB Prop. Hugh Robertson. 1922: Prop. Gaiety & Picturedrome (Barrow) Ltd. Mgr: Mr. Armstrong, Mus. Dir. F. Burns, Engineer Mr. Vinney. 1934: Prop. The Three Theatres, Ltd. Twice nightly 6.45 / 8.45, daily mats. 2.30. August 1936 leased to Union, then ABC October 1937. Closed November 1938. Back to Brennan and re-opened. By 1941: (WE) Prop., Brennan’s Cinemas, Ltd., 107, Duke Street, Barrow-in¬-Furness, Phone 990. Separate houses, 1,000 seats. Booked at Manchester, Prices 3d. to 1s. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Barrow 375. Station, Central, L.M.S. Sold to February Essoldo 1948. 1950 mgr: G. Yeadon (as Gaiety). Renamed c.1950. Closed 1st June 1968. 1977 demolished.
CLASSIC / ODEON / ROXY / ROYALTY THEATRE and OPERA HOUSE / ROYAL ALHAMBRA Cavendish Street. Opened as R. A. 1872. royalty 19894. Hugh Robertson (1907) rebuilt 1937 by Drury & Gomersall. 1200 seats. 1941: (WE) - Prop., James Brennan, 107, Duke St., Barrow-in-Furness. Phone 990. 952 seats, Prices 4d. to 1s. 2½d. Three shows daily. Booked at Manchester and Liverpool. Phone 228, Station, Barrow-in-Furness, Central Station, L.M.S. Sold to ODEON in 1943 – renamed 1945 when 948 seats. 1950 mgr F. J. Field. Later seats 804. Sold to Classic in December 1967 – renamed. Closed 1976. Nightclub use. Disused. Now PG’s Wine Bar
COLISEUM THEATRE Abbey Road Opened 1907 on site of wooden circus by Capt. Calvert Routledge (Pic. Pioneers). Architect: A. Winstanley. 1,070 seats. Cinema 1914. 1922 owned by C. & M. Routledge, Ltd. 1934: Props., The Three Theatres, Ltd. Mgr. S. Armstrong. Pictures & Variety. Mat. daily: 6.30 / 8.45. Seats, c.1,350. To Union circuit 1936. By 1941: (WE) Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Picture House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 6484. Booked at H O. Three shows daily. Phone Barrow 598. Station, Barrow Central, L.M.S. To Essoldo (through Gatshead Emp. Pal. Co.) 21st March 1948. Variety revived. 1950 mgr: G. Yeadon. Closed 18th January 1964 after panto. Disused; demolished 1978.
Drill Hall Strand (1907)
ELECTRIC THEATRE Buccleuch Street/Dalton Road (BTH) Opened 1911 by Charlie Barber. 1922: Lessee: C. Barber; man. Mr. Pearson. 1932: re-decorated in ‘Italian Lake’ semi-atmospheric style - murals and foliage by Fred. A. Foster (Nottingham). Closed 1933-34 1934: Lessee R. T. Dockeray. Mgr. Frank E. Pearson. Twice nightly, 6.45 / 8.45, mats. Mon. Thurs, Sat. By 1941: Prop. Furness Electric Theatre Co., Ltd. 760 seats, Booked at Hall. Twice nightly, Mat., Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Barrow 184. Station, Central, L.M.S. 1950 mgr F. E. Pearson.
EMPIRE fl. 1897. (Hannah)
HER MAJESTY’S / THEATRE ROYAL Albert Street Opened 1864 or 9 as T.R. Rollo Balmain (1907) Renamed H.M. 1905. 1914KYB Prop. Calvert Routledge. 1922 owned by C. & M. Routledge, Ltd. Man. dir., Mrs Calvert Routledge. 1934: Lessee C.C. Taylor. SG46: Prop.: Terence Byron, Ltd., 35, Abingdon St., Blackpool. No agent. Cap.: 800. No matinées. Variety, revue, and pantomime. Tel: 924. 1950 mgr W. G. Baines. Closed 1954 (under R.S. Theatres) 1957: Repertory– Renaissance Theatre Co. Last Director, Donald MacKechnie: last S.M. David C. Hird. Closed 14th January 1967. Demolished 1973.
OSBORNE CINEMA Michaelsea Road 1934: Lessees, Osborne Ltd. Mgr R. J. Evans. Tel: 30. Continuous 6.30 to 10.40.
PALACE THEATRE / HIPPODROME / New Amphitheatre Duke Street Opened 29th December 1873 as the Royal Amphitheatre, architect Arthur Worrall. Salvation Army Citadel. Partially demolished. Rebuilt as theatre 18th January 1912. Architect: G. Walker; converted to cinema by Fred Newman (KYB1914). Reconstructed 1915. 1922: Pictures and Variety. 2,000 seats. Man. dir., J. Graham Crocker. Modernised 8th August 1931. 1,356 seats. 1934: Props. The Three Theatres Ltd. Mgr. T. Byrne. To Union circuit August 1936, then ABC October 1937. By 1941: (WE) Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H O. Continuous. Phone Barrow 418. Station, Barrow-¬in-Furness (Central) L.M.S. 1950 mgr W. Joy. To Essoldo 21st March 1948. Closed 17th March 1963 OR 1st June 1968. Bingo. Demolished 2000.
Queen’s Hall Abbey Road C. J. Roberts (1907)
REGAL 47, Forshaw Street (WE) Opened 1931 by James Brennan. Architect F. J. Parker. 1,050 seats.1934: Gen mgr S. Kirby, mgr E. Melville. Twice nightly ‘Talkies and Variety’. 6.30 / 8.40. Mat. daily. October 1936, leased/sold to Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 8484. By 1941: Continuous. Phone Barrow 549. Station, Barrow Central. 1950 mgr G. Brodie. Closed 29th December 1956.
ROYALTY THEATRE and OPERA HOUSE Cavendish Street Opened 1872. Altered 1894. Architect: Mackintosh. Tel: 228. 1922: Lessee & Mgr: Hugh Robertson. Res. mgr. T. Watson Armstrong (re-decorated, new electrics and heating). 1934: 1,000 seats. Twice nightly – 6.50/8.50p.m. Lessees, Miss E. A. Robertson & J. M. McFarlane. Res. mgr. R. F. Douthwaite. Closed and demolished 1937.
(SALTHOUSE) PAVILION CINEMA Roose Road. 1922: Licensee & mgr. Cllr. G. Shyvers. 960 seats. 1934: Props. James Brennan & S. Kirby. Res. mgr. W. G. Brown. Twice nightly 6.30 / 8.40. Mat. Sat 2.30. By 1941: (WE) - Props. Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, W.1, 943 seats. Two shows daily. Mat., Sat. Booked at H O. Phone 515. Station, Central, L.M.S. 1950 mgr Mrs. E. Brown.
TIVOLI THEATRE of VARIETIES / STAR PALACE of VARIETIES / ALEXANDRA Forshaw Street. Opened 1868 as Alex. Renamed Star in 1871, then Tivoli. Bought by Signor Rino Pepi at auction in 1902. Early films on the ‘Pepi-Scope’. !922 – Props., Labon & Signor Pepi. Tel: 549. Res. man. J. Johnson. Sold to James Brennan in 20s – first of Brennan circuit. Demolished in 1931 for Regal.
Town Hall (Old) Cornwallis street f., J. Gunson (1907)
WALNEY THEATRE Natal Road, Walney Island Opened 1st November 1915. 786 seats. 1922 man. dir. Will Catlin, res. mgr W. D. Mackenzie. 1934: Props., The Three Theatres Ltd. Gen. mgr A. J. Hope. 800 seats. Cont. from 6.30, mats. Mon & Sat. To Union circuit 1936. To ABC October 1937. By 1941 (BTH) - Props. Union Cinemas, Ltd. Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 8484. Continuous, Mon. to Fri.; two shows on Sat, 786 seats. Booked at H O. Phone Barrow 422. Station, Barrow-in-Furness (Central) L.M.S, Film Transport. To Essoldo 20th March 1948. 1950 mgr N. Willis. Sold to Essoldo in 1950. Closed 20th OR 29th June 1959. Bingo. Supermarket 1964. Demolished 1983.
Extra information from 1934 Directory, Allen Eyles’ circuit histories and 1950/1 Yearbook

BARROW-upon-HUMBER Lincs
FORESTERS’ HALL High Street – mobile 16mm. shows. (M. Brader)
PICTURE THEATRE High Street. Opened 19th January 1922. Owner: Cecil Whiteley. c.650 seats. Closed 1937. (M. Brader)
Barrow-on-Humber Picture House 1922: Gilbert Kilburn & Noel G. Bailey lessees

BARROWFORD nr Nelson Lancs
EMPIRE Palace / PALACE PICTURES / EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE Nora Street Opened 1913. W. Taylor man. dir. Electricity from tram-lines. Pictures & variety. From February 1927 lessee Betty V. Gableton, gen hmgr. Douglas Milton, Cyril Bell res. mgr, assistant Herbert Holgate. 1928 mgr. Charles Gaston. April 1930 lessee W. Hargreaves, Wilson Stobbart gen. mgr. Closed c.1932. Empire Garage. Then Popular Garage. Still stands with façade altered.

BARTON-on-HUMBER Lincs
CENTRAL HALL PICTURE HOUSE 1919 - 1929. Silent only – closed on death of owner. (M. Brader)
ELECTRIC PICTURE HOUSE High Street. 1922: Props.: Arthur Window & Albert Mason. Seats: c.400. 14th April 1922. First sound-on-disc in town – 29th March 1930. Closed 1936. (M. Brader)
Oddfellows’ Hall High Street f., F. Thompson (1907)
NEW THEATRE High Street. 475 seats. 1930-1941. (M. Brader)
OXFORD PICTURE THEATRE & THEATRE OF VARIETIES Newport Street 1922: Edwin William White¬ley, proprietor. By 1941: Prop., Cecil Whiteley. 560 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly, twice Saturday, Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Closed to film mid 60s. Bingo till 1972. Still stands as warehouse. Now sports hall.
STAR THEATRE / STAR PICTURE HOUSE High St. 1922: Percy Lee, mgr. Opened by Cecil Whiteley in 1937. 350 seats. By 1941: (AWH) Once nightly, twice Saturday, Booked at Hall, Stage, 12ft. deep; two dressing-rooms, Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Barton 109. Station, Barton-on¬-Humber, L.N.E.R. Later BTH machines and WE sound installed. sold to Star circuit. Closed 5th June 1957- Men are Such Fools. Demolished – housing. (M. Brader)
Temperance Hall J. Hudson (1907)
Volunteer Hall W. Hardy (1907)

BARWELL Leics
EMPIRE Picture Palace Shilton road (AWH) – 1932: Hy. Spencer Cooper, proprietor. 350 seats
PALACE - 350 seats, Once nightly, Mon., Tues. and Thurs, Two shows Sat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 2d.

BASILDON Essex
ARTS CENTRE Towngate 454 seats. Opened c.1968. Closed March 1988. Demolished.
ROBINS / CANNON / ABC 1&2 Town Square/North Gunnels Opened 5th September 1971. Gen. mgr. James Court. 644/455 seats. Chief Bob Hall. To Cannon 1986. To Robins. Closed 1999.
TOWNGATE THEATRE & MIRREN STUDIO Pagel Mead Opened April 1988. Seats 550 and 188.
UCI Festival Leisure Park, Pipps Hill SS14 3DG Seats: 1: 361 2: 180 3: 146 4: 164 5: 220 6: 337 7: 246 8: 220 9: 164 10: 146 11: 180 12: 538 [Sold November 2005 to Empire Cinemas (Ward Anderson)]

BASINGSTOKE Hants
CANNON / ABC 1 & 2 / WALDORF Wote Street (WE) Opened 1935. 863 seats. To Union 1937. By 1941 -Prop., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 25, Regent Street, London, S.W1. Phone. Whitehall 8434. Luxury lounge treatment 1971. Twinned and renamed 15th September 1977 – seats 420 / 218. To Cannon. Closed 21st February 1991. Derelict.
ELECTRIC THEATRE Wote Street 1931: C. Walker, mngr.
HAYMARKET THEATRE / GRAND CINEMA / GRAND THEATRE / Corn Exchange Wote Street f., W. Leavey (1907) Opened as cinema 1913. 1931: George Casey, lessee & manager. Bought by Union 1937. Closed c.1939. By 1941: (WE) 598 seats. opened as theatre. renamed Haymarket 1951. 454 seats. Renovated 1992.
PLAZA / Drill Hall Sarum Hill f., (1907) Bought by Union c.1937. By 1941: (WE) - 700 seats, Prop., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, London S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Closed 26th June 1954. Became Co-op furniture store. Demolished for office block 1981.
SAVOY THEATRE Wote Street (BTP) Opened 1935. By 1941 - Prop., Basingham Theatres, Ltd., 75-77, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1. 710 seats, Booked at H O. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d, Phone Basingstoke 133. Station, Basingstoke, SR. Demolished.
Town Hall, T. Pritchard. (1907)
VUE / STER CENTURY Festival Place 1: 199 2: 181 3: 143 4: 275 5: 275 6: 120 7: 319 8: 248 9: 295 10: 176. Ster Century until autumn 2005.
VUE Basingstoke Leisure Park, Churchill Way West, West Ham RG21 2YR Seats: 1: 427 2: 238 3: 223 4: 154 5: 157 6: 157 7: 154 8: 223 9: 238 10: 427

BASLOW with BUBNELL Derby
STOCKWELL HALL (Metropolitan) -- 100 seats

BATH Somerset
AS¬SEMBLY ROOMS Alfred Street f., C. B. Oliver (1907) Ballroom opened as cinema c1924. Bought by Savoy Cinemas (ABC foundation circuit) c1926. closed 26th March 1934. Now restored by National Trust.
BEAU NASH PICTURE HOUSE / ELECTRIC (WE) Westgate Street Opened 1914. 1920 reconstructed as Beau Nash. Architect: Alfred J. Taylor. 744 seats, later enlarged to 1,088. Bought by ABC August 1929. By 1941 - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, London W.1, Phone Gerrard 7337. 1,081 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous. Proscenium width 25½ft. Phone Bath 4330. Station, Bath, G.W.R. and L.M.S. Modernised 1971. Closed 18th October 2004.
Drill Hall (1907)
FORUM Southgate Street (WE) Opened 1934. Architect: W. H. Watkins & E. Morgan Willmott. By 1941 -Prop., Avon Cinema Co., Ltd., to, Windsor Place, Phone Cardiff 225. 2,139 seats, Booked at HO. Continuous from 2.45. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 50ft. Phone Bath 4962. Cafe attached and Dance Hall, Station, Bath, G.W.R. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Now Bath City Church
Jubilee Hall (1907)
LITTLE THEATRE St Michael's Place (WE) - Prop., Consuelo de Reyes, Citizen House, Bath, Booked at Everyman Theatre, Hampstead. Continuous. 218 seats, Prices 8d. and 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 16ft. Stage 16ft. deep. Six dressing rooms, Cafe attached, Station, G,W.R. and Road Transport. Twinned: Seats: 1: 192 2: 74
ODEON James Street West 1: 360 2: 300 3: 210 4: 200 5: 200 6: 125 7: 100 8: 100
ODEON THEATRE / REGAL / PICTUREDROME Southgate Street Opened c1914. Enlarged & renamed 1930. to Union. To Odeon & re-named 1935. 863 seats. By 1941 (BTH) - Prop., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks, Continuous from 2.15 p.m. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d, Stage. Phone Bath 3533. Closed 13th December 1969. Demolished
PALACE THEATRE / PAVILION / LYRIC Opened 1886 as Lyric; 1888 Pavilion. To MacNaghten V. Circuit 1903 as Palace - F. Macnaghten (1907). By 1941: Prop., W. S. Pearce, 900 seats, Variety. Phone Bath 2261. SG46: Prop.: W. S. Pearce. Palace Theatre, Bath. Bookings: Nat Day, Albion House, New Oxford St., London W.C.1. Cap.: 800. Twice-nightly 6.30 and 8.30, Sats. 6 and 8. No Matinées. Variety and revue. Stage: Pros. 24ft., height 18ft., min. depth from Setting line 24ft., height under fly galleries l8ft., width between fly galleries 30ft., grid to stage 28ft., no counter¬weight gear, 16 sets lines. Elec. equip. 240 v. A.C. Footlights, three circuits. Four battens each with two circuits. Two spots on stands. Four floods on stands. One f.o.h. following lime. No facilities for flying. Dressing rooms: Eight. Orchestra: Resident eight (piano, two violins, bass, sax, trumpet, trombone, drums). Amplifying equip.: One mike. No turntable. Closed 21st May 1955 – interior re-modelled. Regency ballroom from 2nd May 1956. Then wrestling and bingo. (TOIB)
ROBINS / GEMINI St John's Place 3 screens [Closed Jan2004, incorporated into Theatre Royal]
SCALA CINEMA / OLDFIELD PICTURE HOUSE Oldfield Park (WE) - Props., Harris Cinemas, Ltd., 22, West Park, Redland, Bristol, Phone 35645. 808 seats. Booked by Props, Continuous, Prices 9d. to 1s. 4d. Phone Bath 5020. Stations, Bath, G.W.R. & F.T.S. (Great Britain) Ltd. Closed 1961. Leo’s Superstore.
THEATRE ROYAL (No 2) Egbert Lewis (1907) SG46: Prop.: Reg. A. Maddox. No agent or barring clause. Cap.: Stalls 211, boxes 54, amphitheatre 100, D. Circle 145, U. circle 211, gallery 250. Once-nightly at 7. Matinées Wednesday and Saturday, 2.30. Plays, opera and ballet. Stage: Prosc. 28ft. x 20ft., depth 30ft., height to flies 20ft., width between fly galleries 32ft., stage to grid 40ft., hemp lines 40 sets. Elec. equip.: Voltage 230 A.C. and D.C. Footlights, three with ind. dimmers. Battens, four each with three circuits and dimmers. Spot bar with four spots ind. dimmer controlled, Dressing rooms: Nine. Separate room for orchestra. Orchestra: Acc. for 14. Resident orchestra five. Microphone and two loud speakers. 2006: Still open as theatre. Maddox father & Son for c.50 years mid-20th c.

BATLEY Yorks
COLLIN’S CINEMA Victoria Street, Batley Carr 1928: Prop. Collin’s Cinema Co. Ltd. Res. Man. H. Westmorland. Prices: 2½ to 11d. 1938 Prop: T. Bickler. By 1941 – (WE) Prop., Bickler Cinemas, Ltd., 211a Harrogate Road, Leeds. Phone 65986. Occasional Variety, Booked at Leeds, Con¬tinuous. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Dewsbury 267. Stage. Station, Batley Carr, L.M.S. & L.N.E.R.
CO-OP HALL up 250 stone steps – 1st cinema.
EMPIRE Super CINEMA St. James Street By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Batley Theatre & Opera House, Ltd. 933 seals. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Batley 412, Station, Batley, L.N.E.R. & L.M.S. To A.S. Hyde Circuit.
PLAZA Well Lane 1938: Props: Jefton Entertainments Ltd., Cross St. Manchester. Tel: Blackfriars 0752. 1941: (WE) - Props., Central Picture Theatres (Lincoln) Ltd., Central Chambers, 42, Albion Street, Leeds. 628 seats, Con¬tinuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. 3d. Booked at Leeds, Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Batley 308. Station, Batley, L.M.S.
PICTURE PALACE Well Lane 1928 - Prop. Batley Pictures Ltd. Res. Man. W.H. Copeland. Bked @ Hall. Twice nightly. Mat: Mon & Sat.. Prices: 2½ to 11d. Tel: Batley 308
REGENT PICTURE HOUSE Bradford Road 1926: Gen. Man & Sec. Charles William Clow. Bked @ Hall. Two shows nightly. Three mats. Variety once a month, booked by Hodgson’s Variety Agency, Bradford. Stage: 5ft. deep. 4d to 1s. To A. S. Hyde Circuit. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Regent Pictures (Batley) Ltd. 810 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Two shows, Sat, Mat., Tues. and Sat, Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Batley 449. Station. Batley, LN.E.R. & L.M.S.
THEATRE ROYAL (No 3) Opened 1896. J. E. Whitty (1907). ? Became cinema in 1921. Demolished 1961.
Town Hall (1907)
VICTORIA CINEMA / Victoria Hall Branch Road f., J. Hopkinson in 1907. 1928: Prop: Regent Pictures (Batley) Ltd. Gen. Man & Sec. Charles Clow. Bked @ Regent Picture House. Two shows nightly. Three mats. Pictures & variety. Booked by Hodgson’s Variety Agency, Bradford. Stage: 21ft. deep. 2d to 8d.Tel: Batley 449 By 1941: (RCA) - Props., Regent Pictures (Batley) Ltd., St. James Street, Batley. 750 seats. Films booked at Empire Cinema. Two shows nightly. Prices 4d. to 10d. Phone Batley 412. 1954: Props: Yorkshire Cinemas (Batley) Ltd. 636 seats. Cont from 5.30 p.m. Mon - Fri., Sat from 1.30. Prices: 6d to 1/6d. Three changes weekly. Bked @ Leeds. Tel: 1047

BATTLE Sussex
Drill Hall (1907)

BAWTRY Yorks
PICTURE PALACE (BA) -Prop., Palace Cinema (Bawtry) Ltd., 4 Tickhill Road, Doncaster. Phone 53166. Continuous, Booked at Leeds, Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Bawtry 81. Station, Bantry, L.N.E.R.

BEACONSFIELD Bucks
The CHILTERN / PICTURE HOUSE Station Road Opened 1927. (BTP) -Props. Weller & Stevenson’s Theatres, Broadway Cinema, Chalfont St. Peter. Phone Gerrard’s Cross 2904. 500 seats. Booked at H O. Continuous, Prices 7d. to 2s. 6d, Phone Beaconsfield 248. Station, Beaconsfield, G.W.R. & G.C. Joint. Now adventure playground.

BEAMISH Co Durham
BEAMISH PICTUREDROME Handenhold 18th Oct 1912 - 28th Jan 1914 (Frank Manders)

BEAUFORT Mon.
CINEMA - Props., Beaufort Cinema & Billiard Hall Co., Ltd. Continuous when open. Stations, Beaufort or Ebbw Vale, L.M.S., & Ebbw Vale, G.W.R.
GAIETY (BA) - 560 seats.

BEBINGTON Cheshire
RIALTO (WE) - Prop., Bedford Cinemas (1928) Ltd., 29, Castle Street, Liverpool, 2. 1,271 seats. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d,
ESSOLDO / REGAL Bebington Road Opened 12th February 1938. Architect: S. Colwyn Foulkes, 1316 seats. To Southan Morris, To Essoldo 26th August 1954. Closed 22 February 1969. Soon demolished.

BECCLES Suffolk
CINEMA Saltergate Opened October 1914. Prop., A. P. Robinson. 500 seats. Prosc. 24’, 12’ deep; two dressing rooms. Once nightly. 2d. to 1s. By 1941 - Props., Beccles Cinema Co., Ltd. 400 seats. Closed February 1960 – Life in Emergency – Ward 10 and Ask Any Girl. Showroom & warehouse, now furniture shop.
Corn Hall / THEATRE Exchange Square 1819 – 1845. Built by David Fisher. 1819 – 1845. Frederick Charles Burton, ‘the last of the barnstormers’, took a benefit there. He died in 1917 aged 95. By the 20s it had become the Corn Hall. Still there behind Lloyd’s Bank, part of same building. (Mellor)
Public Hall / Town Hall f., G. Fisk (1907) Built 1785 – often used for dramatic performances before the Fisher Theatre was built. Early film shows till 1914. Still stands.
REGAL THEATRE Ballygate (WE) Opened 1931. Architect: Cecil Masey & F. J. Meen. Stadium seating. Prosc. 36’x20’, depth 15’; four dressing rooms. Prop, Beccles Cinema Co., Ltd. 647 seats. Booked at Hall. By 1941: Continuous. Twice on Sat. Mats., Wed, and Sat, Prices 7d. to 2s, Proscenium width 36ft. Phone Beccles 133. Station, Beccles, L.N.E.R. BA sound fitted later. 1955 – CinemaScope. Closed Saturday 20th November 1976 – Kelly’s Heroes. Bingo. Demolished 1989 – except for adjoining shops & flats.
NEW CINEMA – ?reference to the Regal

BECKENHAM Kent
ODEON THEATRE Elmers End 46 Croydon Road Opened 26th August 1939 – The Man in the Iron Mask. Architect: Keith Roberts (Andrew Mather). 1,518 seats. Prop., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d, Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks, Phone Beckenham 5081. Closed 5th January 1957 – Dance with me Henry and Overland Pacific. Demolished. (Shortest-lived original Odeon except bombed Canning Town.)
ODEON / ABC / MGM / CANNON / ABC 1,2,3 / ABC / REGAL High Street Opened 22nd September 1930 – The Rogue Song. Architect: Robert Cromie. Prop., Beckenham Picture Houses, Ltd. (Alfred Reed’s Theatres). 1,980 seats. Prosc. 47ft. Projection box at rear of stalls. Organ from September 931: WurliTzer 2/8 (rebuilt as 3c. 1937). Bought by Union 1936. 6d. to 2/-. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas Ltd., 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone 8484. Continuous. Pic¬tures and Variety. Booked at H O. Café and Dance Hall attached. Stage, 24ft. Seven dressing-rooms. Phone Beckenham 1171, Stations, Clock House or Beckenham Junction, SR. Renamed ABC 1962. Tripled 1978/9 Seats: 587 (former circle) 295, 124. Now 6 screens
PAVILION High Street (Edibell) Opened 31st October 1914. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Props. South London Cinema Co. (1916) Ltd. 1921 Prices 5d. to 2/4d. Miss Jordan, mgress. c.1928, Frank Theobald, mgr. closed c.1933. Public Hall f., T. W. Thornton (1907)
Extra information: B. Hornsey (Bromley booklet)

BECONTREE Essex
ODEON / REGENT CINEMA Green Lane, Chadwell Heath Opened 1929. Architect: Lewis Solomon & Sons. Prop. Kay Ltd. (Kessex Cinemas). Café. (RCA) - Prop., Kessex Cinemas, Ltd., Film House, Wardour Street, London W1, Phone Gerrard 5252. 1,500 seats. Booked at H. O. Continuous, Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Stage and 4 dressing-rooms. Phone Seven Kings 2302. Station, Chadwell Heath, L.N.E.R. Leased then sold to Odeon and re-named 1946. Closed 4th April 1970. Empty. Bingo.

BEDALE Yorks
ASSEMBLY ROOMS Market Place - Occasional shows, 200 seats.
Drill Hall, f., J, Linscott (1907)

BEDFORD Beds
CANNON / GRANADA 5-9 St. Peter’s Street (RCA) Opened 15th December 1934 – The Thin Man. Architects: William T. Benslyn, James Morrison & R. Furneaux Jordan (Theodore Komisarjevsky interiors). 1,690 seats (996 stalls + 694 circle). Props., The Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, W1. Phone Gerrard 3554. Phone Bedford 3348. Café attached. 70mm 28th July 1968 - Doctor Dolittle. Mgr. Charles Field. 29th July 1974 café converted to Granada 2. 209 seats. Existing box used - periscope system. 1982 Granada proposed bingo in main house, keeping mini as cinema. To Cannon January 1989 & re-named. Closed 2nd December 1990 - The Exorcist 3 and Flatliners Screen 2. Demolished February 1991. Supermarket — now with BFI commemorative plaque.
CENTURY / PLAZA / Castle Rink Embankment Opened October 1909 as skating rink, later dances, exhibitions, boxing, variety shows, and as a café. To Robert Chetham February 1924. Converted to Plaza 4th March 1929. 1052 seats - single well-raked floor. Pictures & occasional stage shows. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., R. Chetham. 1,052 seats. Continuous. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Bedford 2345. Station, Bedford, Midland Road. L.M.S. Post-war run by John Chetham. Last mgr. Stan Hunt. Sold to Granada 17th February 1969, renamed Century. Reduced to 973 seats. Mgr Ronnie Blake, David Simpson Apri1 1970 to September 1971. Then Richard Wilson. Closed 22nd June 1974 - The Professionals. Bought by council. Plans to convert to live theatre / regional film theatre shelved. Leased for 5 years to operator of Royal County, for use as restaurant/nightclub. Failed. Demolished 1983.
CINEWORLD / UGC / CANNON Aspects Leisure Park, Newnham Avenue Opened 20th December 1990. Seats: 1: 336 2: 293 3: 293 4: 290 5: 191 6: 191 UGC until summer 2005.
CIVIC THEATRE - projection facilities.
Corn Exchange f. (1907) Early film seasons.
GRANADA 3 / EMFIRE 27 Midland Road - Opened 27th May 1912. Prop.: Ernest Blake. 534 seats (374+160). Taken over by Granada Christmas Day 1934. 682 seats. By 1941: (WE) Props., The Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, W1. Phone Gerrard 3554. Phone Bedford 3848. Station, Bedford, L.M.S. Closed, improved, and re-opened 1954. ‘Closed until further notice’ 6th September 1975 – Superchick and Knucklemen. Reopened as Granada 3 18th April 1976. Closed 19th June 1977 and demolished. Electricity Board showroom.
PALACE High Street/Silver Street Opened 6th April 1912. Architects: Warner & Felce. Prop., Blake brothers. 600 seats. Bought by Granada 1934. Closed 22nd March 1936. Immediately demolished. Shop.
PICTUREDROME Duck Mill Walk Opened 2nd May 1910. Leased to Blake brothers, later Robert Chetham 1917. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., R. Chetham, ‘Turton,’ Bedford, Phone 2913. 600 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d, Phone Bedford 3331. Station, Bedford L.M.S. To John Chetham Closed 1964. Demolished. County Hotel.
ROYAL COUNTY THEATRE Midland Road (No 3) Adapted from Central Hall (1898) & opened in 1899 as Royal County Theatre & Opera House. E. Graham-Falcon (1907) WWI – officers’ training school. WWII – Salvation Army canteen. Re-opened 1945. SG46: Prop.: Rose Newton, Royal County Theatre, Bedford. Cap.: Orch. stalls 87, stalls 86, P. stalls 99, pit 98, D. circle 85, Fam. circle 97, balcony 126. Barring clause: 17 miles’ radius. Once nightly 7. Matinées Saturday 2.30. Twice nightly 6.30 and 8.40, Saturday matinée. No set policy. Stage: Prosc. 26ft. Height 20ft. Min. depth from setting line 21ft. Height under fly galleries 21ft. Width between fly galleries 30ft. 6 in. Height of grid from stage 46ft. 6 in. No counterweight gear. 28 sets hemp lines. Elec. equip.: 210 v. A.C. Footlights, three circuits with dim¬mers. Three battens each with three circuits with dimmers. Two floods on stands. Three following limes (one f-o-h, two perches). Dressing rooms: Six large. Separate room for orchestra. Orchestra: Acc. 16. Resident eight (2 violins, bass, trombone, 2 trumpets, piano, drums) Amplifying equip.: Microphone supplied. Closed 1959. Bingo 1963. By 1974 – theatre restaurant. Bingo. By 2006 – Church of Zion.

BEDFORD LEIGH, Lancs - see Leigh, Lancs.

BEDLINGTON Northumb
Locke Memorial Hall f., (1907)
PALACE Opened c.1896: Closed c.1927. Demolished or converted to Wallaw.
PRINCE OF WALES Glebe Road (WE) - Opened c. 1890. To cinema c.1918. Run by C. N. Walton in 1939. By 1941: Prop., Emily Hastwell, c/o Walton, 53, Westlands Road, Darlington. 736 seats, Continuous, Two changes weekly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d, Booked at Newcastle. Phone Bedlington 3223. Station, Bedling¬ton, L.N.E.R. Later Crown Tombola Club. Demolished.
WALLAW CINEMA (WE) - Prop., Wallaw Picture, Ltd., Ashington, Northumb. Booked at H.O. 1,356 seats, Two shows nightly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d, Phone Bedlington 2259. Station, Bedlington

BEDMINSTER Glos - See Bristol.

BEDWAS and MACHEN Mon
WORKMEN’S HALL (RCA) -Props., Bedwas Workmen Hall Institute, Booked at Hall. 850 seats. Continuous, Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Bedwas 23. Stations, Bedwas & Caerphilly, G.W.R.

BEDWORTH Warwick
GRAND CINEMA Bulkington -Prop., - Nicholls, Booked at Hall, Continuous, Two changes weekly. Station, Bedworth. L.M.S.
PALACE Leicester Road (BTH) - Prop., Edward W. Wallis. 850 seats. Booked at Hall, Continuous. Two Changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Pros¬cenium width 20ft. Phone Bedworth 86. (Closed.)
Public Hall, f., T. P. Harrison (1907)
PLAZA / STAR CINEMA (Morrison) King Street,-Prop., Edward W. Wallis, Coventry Road, Bulkington. 386 seats, Booked at Hall, Continuous, Prices 5d. to 11d, Station, Bedworth, L.M.S. Closed.

BEESTON Notts
CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / ASTORIA Derby Road, Lenton Abbey (BTP) Opened Monday 8th June 1936. Architect: A. J. Thraves. Prop., Lenton Abbey Astoria Ltd. 1,144 seats. By 1941: Props., Abbey Theatres, Ltd., Elite Bldgs., Notting¬ham. 1,200 seats. Continuous, evenings only. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Booked at H.O. by Herbert Elton, Phone Nottingham 2273-4. Proscenium width 38ft. Phone 54758. Station, Beeston, L.M.S. To Essoldo 1949 & re-named Friday 1st August 1952. Closed 18th April 1970. Re-opened as New Essoldo Monday 28th December 1970. 437 seats. To Classic Friday 31st March OR 2nd April 1972. Closed to film Saturday 1st OR 11th October 1975. Bingo. Skateboard. Snooker hall, derelict 1993. Demolished December 1993 - January 1994.
Council School Rooms New School, Baugh (1907)
ESSOLDO / MAJESTIC CINEMA Queen’s Road/Station Road (BTH) Opened Thursday 1st September 1938. Architect: E. S. Roberts, 1,038 seats. By 1941 - Props., Abbey Theatres. Ltd., Elite Buildings, Nottingham. 1,000 seats. Prices 8d. to ls.6d. Booked by Herbert Elton. Phone Nottingham 2273/4. Continuous. Phone 55123. Station, Beeston, Notts. To Henton (Midlands) Ltd. To Essoldo 1949 & re-named c.1951. Closed to film Saturday 14th September 1968. Bingo. Demolished July 1988.
PALLADIUM (1) / COSYDROME CINEMA / COZYDROME Chapel Street Opened August Bank Holiday 1907 – conversion of chapel. Re-named Cosydrome Cinema August 1908. Closed mid-December 1909. Ran as Pall. Wednesday 30th October 1912 to Saturday 11th October 1913.
PALLADIUM SUPER CINEMA (2) High Road Opened Friday Boxing Day 1913. By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Palladium (Beeston, Notts) Ltd., Burton Bldgs., Parliament Street, Notting¬ham, Phone Nottingham 42081. 750 seats. Booked at HO. Continuous. Stage, 15ft. deep. Prices 6d, to 1s. 4d. Proscenium width 25ft. Phone Beeston 54619. Station, Beeston, L.M.S. Closed Saturday 18th April 1959. Demolished.
PALACE / PICTURE PALACE High Road High Road Opened Saturday 1st February 1913. By 1941: (WE) - Prop. J. H. H. Allsop. 700 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 4d. Station, Beeston, L.M.S., & Road Transport. Closed Saturday 20th February 1960. Demolished. Shops.
PAVILION High Road Opened Friday 16th February 1912. ‘Tin Trunk’ – probably temporary wood & corrugated-iron erection. Closed Saturday 7th December 1912.

BEIGHTON Derby
Board School Room C. Hellwell (1907)
CENTRAL HALL High Street (BTH) 420 seats. Once nightly, twice Sat. Prices 4d, to 1s. Closed 1968, now garage premises.

BELPER Derby
PALACE King Street (WE) - Prop., Thos, P. Moorley. 850 seats. One show nightly, twice Sat, Mat., Sat, Two changes weekly. Booked by J. Pollard, Bentick Chambers, Mansfield. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d, Width of Proscenium, 24ft. Stage, 18ft. Three dressing-rooms. Phone 153. Station, Belper, L.M.S. Demolished, Wilkinsons on site.
RITZ / Public Hall King Street - Props., Belper Public Hall Co., Ltd. f., J. Pym (1907). 1941: (BTH) Booked by J. Pollard, Bentick Chambers, Mansfield. 725 seats. Once nightly, twice Sat., Mat., Wed, Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d, Proscenium width 22ft. Stat¬ion, Belper, L.M.S. Later split for bingo / film. Then former circle twinned. To Sam Lavington. Sold as flat at £4,500, personal cinema came free. Closed. Lottery Grant 2006. Hoped to re-open late 2006.

BELTON nr. Doncaster Lincs
Conservative Hall f., J. W. Ross (1907)
PUBLIC HALL Grey Green - Prop., Trustees. Occasional shows. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Station, Belton, Axholme Ry.

BELLINGHAM Northumb
TOWN HALL CINEMA

BELVEDERE Kent
BELVEDERE CINEMA Picardy Street (AWH) - Prop., J. Helsdon Burton, 5, Bloomsbury Place, Southampton Row, W.C.1, Phone Museum 5853. 400 seats, when reconstructed. Continuous. Booked at H O. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. (Closed.) Possibly this was the Cosy, and the reconstruction never happened.
Public Hall f., Dr. H. Crane (1907)
COSY TALKIE THEATRE / COSY / GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE Picardy St/Sheridan Rd Opened c.1913. Props. W. T. Smith & Son (Geo. Edward) c.1930. Taken over by W.A. Atkinson, AWH sound installed. 275 seats. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Demolished.
QUEENSLAND ELECTRIC Crabtree Manor Way Opened c.1914. Props., Chas. Crump & Chas. Wimm. c.250 seats. Sold c. 1921 to Walter M. Sparrow & Wm. Skinnerton. Continuous. Three changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 8d. Sold c1928 to L. W. Fox. No talkies. Disappears.

BENTHAM Yorks
PICTURE HOUSE
Public Hall f., R. Sanderson (1907)

BENTLEY with ARKSEY, near Doncaster Yorks
COLISEUM (WE) -900 seats
Town Hall, J. Peters (1907)

BERKELEY Glos
THE BERKELEY / ELECTRIC CINEMA Station Road-Lessee, Alan G. Mason, High Street. Phone Berkeley 35. 300 seats, Booked by Prop. Continuous, Mon. to Fri.; twice on Sat, Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Station. Berkeley, G.W.R. Films by Road Transport.

BERKHAMSTED Herts
COURT THEATRE High Street Opened Saturday 24th March 1917 – rebuild of brewery. Architect: Ewan S. Barr. Prop. David Pike & P.P. co. Cap. 700+, later 624. Mgr C. W. Fox. To S&K by March 1930. Rebuilt/modernised with new entrance block 17th September 1934. c.1,000 seats. Organ: Christie 3c/6 (stage left chamber) with surround on lift – removed 1937. Rep. th. 1939-40. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Shipman & King, M84, Shell Mex House, Strand, London W.C. Phone Temple Bar 5077. Booked at HO. Continuous from 2 p.m. Proscenium width. 34ft. Phone 154. Station, Berkhamsted. L.M.S. Closed 11th June 1960 – The Horse Soldiers. Supermarket. Fire 1969. Demolished. Tesco on site.
GEM Cowper Road Opened 1911 – corrugated iron. Cap. 168. Closed c.1913.
PICTURE PLAYHOUSE King’s Arms Yard Prince Edward Street Opened c.November 1912 – conversion of stables. Architect: Herbert A. Bowes. 340 seats on one raked floor. Closed 17th March 1917. Now re-fronted as King’s Hall.
REX High Street (RCA) Opened 9th May 1938. Architect: David E. Nye. Props: Shipman & King, M84. Shell Mex House. Strand, London W.C. Phone Temple Bar 5077. 1,100 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 2 p.m. Café. Phone Berkhamsted 134. Station, Berkhamsted L.M.S. Closed 16th January 1973 – The Amazing Mr Blunden. To Star & re-named Studio 1 – part-time bingo. To Zetter & circle twinned as Rex 1 & 2 1976. Stalls bingo. Closed to film. [600 seat restored for 6th December 2004 re-opening as part of scheme converting rest of building to flats]
Town Hall, f., W. J. Pickin (1907)

BERWICK-on-TWEED Northumb
BERWICK THEATRE (WE) -Props., Berwick Theatre, Ltd., 3, Bridge Street, Berwick, Phone 203. 1,100 seats. Booked in Newcastle. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 33ft. Stage, 28ft. deep. Six dressing-rooms. Café and Dance Hall. Phone Berwick 268. Station, Berwick, L.N.E.R.
Corn Ex¬change, f, A. L. Miller (1907)
PLAYHOUSE Sandgate - Opened between 2nd August 1913 / 9th April 1914. By 1941: (WE) Props., Berwick Playhouse Co. 992 seats, Booked at Hall. Continuous, Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Stage, four dressing rooms. Phone Berwick 155. Seats: 650. Fly tower over acting area. Closure announced for 31st August 2005.
Queen’s Rooms, f., W. M. Mather (1907)
THEATRE Old Brewery Lane, Hide Hill. ‘A very simple long room which had a raked floor and scenery painted on the wall of the stage area’ – letter from Borough Planning Officer. 1978: owned by Joe Youngman who purchased the building as part of the A&B Garage. (BTG)

BEVERLEY Yorks
Assembly Rooms, f., F. Mills (1907) Became part of Regal.
MARBLE ARCH PICTURE PALACE (WE) Butcher Row- Opened post-WWI by Joshua Butt. 1941: Props., Marble Arch Picture Palace Co. (Beverley) Ltd. 1,100 seats. Booked at Leeds, Continuous, Mat., Mon., Thurs and Sat, Two changes weekly. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 4d, Stage, 14ft. deep. Phone Beverley 168. Cafe attached, Station, Beverley, L.N.E.R.; & Road Transport. Demolished, supermarket car park.
PICTURE PLAYHOUSE / Corn Exchange 1886 – leased by Ernest Symmons in 1913 and converted to cinema. By 1941: (Wired) Prop., E. P. Symmons, 5, Eastgate. 480 seats, Booked at Hall, Continuous. Two shows Sat, Mat., Mon. and Thurs. Prices 6d. to 1s. 4d. Phone Beverley 15. Station, Beverley, L.N.E.R. Closed. Attempt at re-opening failed.
REGAL (WE) Norwood – opened 2nd November 1935. Local co. & County. Architect: Robert Cromie. Part of Assembly Rooms block. Bought by ABC 1937. Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30 31 Golden Square, London W1. Booked at H. O., Continuous. 946 seats. 6d. to 1s 6d. Café and Dance Hall. Phone 368. Station, Beverley, L.N.E.R.; & Road Transport. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Closed 22nd June 1968. Bingo / snooker. Derelict.
THEATRE – part of Butler of York Circuit. 1805. Lost by Butler c.1816.

BEWDLEY Worcs
GARDEN CINEMA (BA) -Props., J. E. Smithson, Greenacres, Habberley Road, Wribbenhall. Booked at Bewdley. 500 Seats. Continuous. Mon., to Fri., Mat. Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 10ft. deep. Two dressing rooms, Phone Bewdley 26. Station, Bewdley, G.W.R.
St. George’s Hall, f., Mrs. Woodward (1907)

BEXHILL-on-SEA Sussex
ABC / RITZ (WE) Buckhurst Road Opened 18th January 1937. Architects: Verity & Beverley. 1,142 seats. – 1941: Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, SW1. 1,126 seats. Proscenium width 44ft. Booked at H. O. Continuous, Phone Bexhill 600. Station, Bexhill, S.R. Closed 2nd December 1961. Bingo. Demolished.
CINEMA de LUXE Western Road Opened 1913. Closed 1921, now a garage.
De La WARR PAVILION Marina Opened 1935. Prop., Corporation. Architects: Erich Mendelsohn & Serge Chermayeff. SG46: Cap.: Stalls, 650, balcony 500. Once nightly 7.30. Matinées Wednesday or Thursday and Saturday. Repertory, summer shows, orchestral concerts. Stage: Prosc. 28ft., height 14ft., depth 25ft., height under flies 28ft., width between flies 32ft., height of grid 40ft., hump lines 28, not including spot bar or battens. Elec. equip.: 230 v. A.C., 50 cycles. Foot¬lights, three, battens, three, each with three circuits, spot bar with eight spots. Floods coupled to three dimmers, Pit lighting with three circuits. 15 dips. One spot on stand. 12 floods on stands. 12 f.o.h. pre-set spots. Two f.o.h. following limes. Five spots between battens. Dressing rooms: Five single, two