The GOULD GAZETTEER
of Provincial Cinemas, Music Halls, and Theatres.

"This is offered as work in progress. I have a very, very, long way to go. I have put together A to C, and offer it as a Gallery for any help, comments and information. The backbone is the 1941 KYB, with the 1907 Green Room Book, the 1946 Stage Guide, my own index cards, and notes, Bioscope indices, and Jeremy Perkins’ cinema list.

Information gratefully received toMervyn.Gould@virgin.net

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT the Mercia Cinema Society’s Survey, which is being dealt with by Colin Sanders".

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(CLICK HERE FOR A-C)

M.S.G August 2006 (Updated 6/9)

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MABLETHORPE Lincs
Beach Pavilion f., J. T. Robinson (1907)
DUNES THEATRE Central Promenade Opened 1960s. Now described as Family Entertainment Centre
EMPIRE High Street Opened June 1914. Prop. Arthur Bradford. 250 seats – one raked tier. 1922: Francis A. Brad¬ford, managing director. Closed late 20s. Now amusement arcade.
FITZWILLIAM CINEMA High Street/Fitzwilliam Street Opened c.1922. 200 seats. KYB31 - Prop Mrs. A. (Jean) Voce. Closed 1930 – no sound.
LOEWEN / BIJOU CINEMA Quebec Road Opened 10th July 1981 – For Your Eyes Only. Prop. James Green. 264 seats – one raked tier. 1982 – Hill organ installed (1st cinema organ since Hull Cecil (2)). Leased to John Calvert 1985. Sold c.1989 to Charles Bradley. Closed 1994. Sold 1995 – Judy & Henry Howell – re-named. Twinned 1998. 2002 – to Curzon circuit of Loughborough. February 2004: To Marc Earl & Debbie Spriggs. 4 screens. 2006: Doors open daily from 2pm, 3.30pm, 7.30pm, and 8.30pm
LYRIC / ELECTRIC PALACE George Street Opened 1926. Props., George Williams & A. Moore. 380 seats. Bingo.
PIE-in-HAND CINEMA High Street Café conversion. ?16mm. No sound. KYB31 – Prop. William Jackson
VICTORIA CINEMA Victoria Road (BTH) - Prop., A. H. Moore, Hillvue, Sutton-on-Sea. Phone Sutton-on-Sea 70. 750 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 24ft. Phone Mablethorpe 66. Station, Mablethorpe, L.N.E.R.
VICTORIA PAVILION Seacroft Road Closed by bomb 1943. Demolished 1948. Coach yard & garage.

MACCLESFIELD Cheshire
Drill Hall Sergt. Norton (1907)
HIPPODROME Bendon & Larder (1907)
Macclesfield Super Cinema Co. Ltd. ; office, 76 Derby street, Macclesfield
MAJESTIC PICTURE HOUSE 95 Mill Street (WE) - Prop., Macclesfield Majestic Picture House, Ltd. Stanley Bamford Higginbotham, manager. 1,022 seats. Booked at Hall. Con¬tinuous. Mon. to Fri., two shows Sat. Mats. Mon., Wed, and Sat. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 4d. Café attached, Phone 2412. Station, Macclesfield, L.M.S. Closed.
NEW CINEMA Buxton Road (BTH) Ernest Mellon, licensee. 900 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two shows and Children’s Mat., Sat. Mat., Wed. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Phonic. Macclesfield 3265. Station, Hibel Road, L.M.S.
NEW REGAL Duke Street (RCA) - Props. Regal Picture Theatre (Macclesfield) Ltd. Sidney Cass, manager. 400 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Three on Sat. Prices 4d. to 9d, Phone 2449. Station, Hibel Road, Macclesfield
OPERA HOUSE / THEATRE ROYAL Opened 1882 (No 1) W. K. Gatley (1907–as T. R.) 1922 – altered for cinema. Architect: A. Clayton. 1930 Prop. William Dean. KYB31 – Prop. Alfred Denville. Booked at Hall. Pictures & variety. Stage 28’ deep. 6d to 3s. Phone 157. Station. Hibel. Auditorium fire 1931. Ruins demolished 1950s.
Pavilion Rink G. Gosling (1907)
PICTUREDROME 102 Chestergate (WE) - Prop., Prop., Macclesfield Majestic Picture House, Ltd., Mill Street. 870 seats. Continuous. Twice nightly on Sat. 3d to 1/3. Phone 2016. Now jeweller’s office.
PICTURE PALACE Duke Street 1931: Prop. Palace Macclesfield Ltd. Booked at Hall. One show nightly. Three on Sat. 3d to 1/6. Phone 3106. Was this re-built as Regal at sound?
PREMIER PICTURE HOUSE Hobson Street (BTP) - Prop., Premier Picture House (Macclesfield) Ltd. 800 seats. Continuous. Two shows Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Macclesfield 2367. Station, Hibel Road, L.M.S.
RITZ - Controlled by Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street. London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. (Scheme never realised)
Town Hall Corporation (1907)

MADELEY Salop
Anstice Memorial Institute H. Roberts (1907)
REGENT / WEST END CINEMA / PARKHURST CINEMA Park Street (Gyrotone – later G-B Kalee) -Prop., Francis G. Stead, Meadow House, Madeley, nr Wellington. 280 seats. Once nightly, Mon. to Fri. and three shows on Sat. Prices 2d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Office, Ironbridge Road, Madeley. Pro¬scenium width 20ft. Phone Ironbridge 55. Station, Madeley Market, L.M.S. Closed late 50s.

MAGHULL Lancs
ALBANY Northway

MAIDENHEAD Berks
ABC / RIALTO PICTURE THEATRE Bridge Street Opened 31st October 1927. Architect: Robert Cromie. To Union 1928. 1,262 seats. By 1941: (WE) Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Lower Regent Street, London, S.W.1.Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associ¬ated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Continuous. Sundays once nightly. Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 33ft. Café attached. Phone 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Films by Road Transport. Re-named ABC 1960. Closed 18th May 1985. Demolished for office with cinema space (unused) in basement.
Circus Pitch Avery (1907)
HIPPODROME / NEW THEATRE & OPERA HOUSE Opened 1911. Closed c.1929. Demolished 1990. (Theatres Trust)
ODEON / UCI the filmworks Broadway, Grenfell Island Opened 18th September 1998. 8 screens. Re-named January 2006
PICTURE HOUSE Closed 1928. Demolished for Plaza.
PICTURE THEATRE Bridge Street Closed c.1936. Re-built as Ritz.
PLAZA THEATRE Queen Street Opened 3rd September 1928 – on site of Picture House. Architect: T. F. Ford. Organ: Wurlitzer 2/5 fixed console. To Union 1930. 718 seats. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Lower Regent Street, London S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 717 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 2.15 p.m. Sunday once nightly. Prices 9d. to 2s. Stage, 10ft., two dressing-rooms. Proscenium width 32ft. Phone Maidenhead 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Organ removed 1961. Closed 13th October 1962. Bingo.
Public Borough Halls f., J. W. Beslee (1907)
RITZ Bridge Street Opened 20th January 1936 – re-built from Picture Theatre. Architect: A. H. Jones. 748 seats – one tier. To Union 1937. By 1941- Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 748 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Closed c1944. Squash racquets.

MAIDSTONE Kent
ABC (1) / RITZ (2)/ CENTRAL PICTURE PLAYHOUSE King Street Opened 7th February 1921. Architects: Ruck & Smith. 1,250 seats. Mgr. Capt. F. W. Young. Organ: 3m straight. 1935 organ: Compton 3/6+Melotone. (2 consoles - surround to stage console - pit console fixed). To Union 1936. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 1,220 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Maidstone 3507. All films by Kent Motor Film Transport Co. Fire 27th June 1955 during installation of CinemaScope & organ destroyed. Re-built as Ritz by ABC. Opened 10th December 1956 – Moby Dick. Architects: C. J. Foster & J. Westaway. 1,270 seats. Mgr. A. P. C. Bridger. Prices, 1/10 to 4/3d. Re-named 1962. Closed 5th October 1974. Bingo. Demolished 1980. Boot’s shop.
ABC (2) / MGM / CANNON / GRANADA Lower Stone Street (WE) Opened 10th January 1934. Architect: Cecil Masey, interior Theodore Komisarjevsky. Organ: Christie3/8 on lift+Grand Piano. 1,684 seats. Café. Props., The Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 3554. Phone Maidstone 3838. Station, Maidstone. Flooded 1968 & re-opened balcony only. Organ damaged by floods 1968 & removed 1970. Film/bingo split 1971: Architects: George Coles & Partners. Tripled 1974. To Cannon 1989 & re-named, to MGM & re-named 1993. To Virgin 1995. To ABC & re-named 1996. Gala Bingo.
HIPPODROME Opened 1900. Destroyed by fire 1908.
ODEON Lock Meadow: 8 screens
PALACE THEATRE Gabriel’s Hill Opened 1908. Became cinema 1914. Sound 1931. To Union 1935. 668 seats. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd.,, Union House, 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Pic¬tures, Ltd. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 23ft. Phone Maidstone 3507. SG46: Palace Theatre is now used as a Cinema except for occasional stage performances. Rep. company 1948, Films Sun. Leased out 1951 as theatre. Opened & closed – finally closed 19th October 1957. Demolished. Shops.
POPULAR PICTURE PALACE 1913 mgr. Alfonso Eley.
REGAL (BTP) - Props., Mr. & Mrs. Senior. 323 seats. Prices 10d. to 2s. 6d. Continuous, Booked at Hall. Phone 4685. Station, Maidstone East & Kent Film Motor Trans¬port.
RITZ (1)/ PAVILION Picture Palace Pudding Lane Opened 1911 – converted skating rink. Enlarged 1920 – 1,350 seats. To Union 1935 & re-named. (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd. Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 50ft. Phone 3507. All Films by Kent Motor Film Transport Co. Fire 11th January 1954. Shops/offices.

MALDON Essex
STUDIO ONE / EMBASSY High Street (WE) Opened March 1936. Architect: David E. Nye. Prop., Shipman & King, Shellmex House, Strand, W.C.2, Phone Temple Bar 5077. Organ: WurliTzer 3c/5 with surround on lift. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Café. Phone Maldon 168. To Star circuit 1967, re-named. Organ removed 1968. To Coral bingo. Closed August 1982. Demolished 1985.
HIPPODROME High Street Opened 1910. David Ager circuit. 450 seats. Stage, 2 dressing rooms. To S & K by 1926. Scheme for re-building 1934. Re-furbished 1934. (WE) -Props., Shipman & King, M84, Shellmex House, Strand, London, W.C.2. Phone Temple Ear 5077. Booked at H.O. Phone Maldon 168. Station, Maldon East, L.N.E.R. Closed during WWII. Retail premises. Façade renewed. Fly tower to be seen in 1995.
Public Hall f., Secretary (1907)

MALMESBURY Wilts.
MALMESBURY CINEMA / ATHELSTAN CINEMA Market Cross (BTP) opened 1936 - Prop., J. L. Mott, 10, Oxford Street, Malmesbury. 300 seats. Phone Malmesbury 152. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 6 p.m. Mon. to Fri. Three shows on Sat. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Station, Malmesbury, G.W.R. & Film Transport.
Town Hall f., J. H. Fielder (1907)

MALPAS Cheshire
Victoria Jubilee Hall f., A. Callcott (1907)

MALTBY Yorks
GRAND CINEMA Muglet Lane (WE) - Prop., Star Cinemas (London) Ltd., New Star Cinema, Aire Street, Castleford. Phone 2531. 962 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Two shows on Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s.2d. Proscenium width 36ft.. Phone Maltby 114. Films by F.T.S. (Great Britain) Ltd., Leeds

MALTON Yorks
EXCELSIOR Opened 1909 as skating rink – converted to cinema. Prop., Charlie Caldwell ‘Old Tin Hut’: Burned downed 1921. Majestic replaced it.
EXCHANGE PICTURE HOUSE / Corn Exchange (1907) 1936: (WE) Prop. C. S. Read, Broughton Rise. 450 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. 6d to 1/3. Phone 173. Later controlled by Star cinemas.
MAJESTIC P.T. Opened 1921. By 1941: (WE) -Prop., C. S. Read. 800 seats. Continuous. Pictures and Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Malton 173. Station, Malton, L.N.E.R., & Road Transport.
PALACE / STUDIO / RYEDALE / PALACE / EXCHANGE CINEMA / Corn Exchange Yorkersgate 19th century Corn Exchange. Probably early film seasons, but not listed in GRB1907. Opened as full-time cinema 1914. Rebuilt behind façade as Palace 1934. Reverse plan – foyer, stage & fly tower, auditorium. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., C. S. Read, Broughton Rise, Malton. 850 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Malton 173. Films by Road Transport. Stalls & stage to shopping mall 1987. Cinema in circle seats 142. Closed 1998. [Closed 13th January 2006 for conversion during February into two screens – 1:90 2:40, both digital only]
Theatre and Assembly Rooms f., Miss C. Banks (1907)

MALVERN Worcs
Assembly Rooms Grange Road Opened 1885. Architect J. Johnson. f., F. A. Crudge (1907) Converted to Festival Theatre 1928.
CINEMA / PICTURE HOUSE Winter Gardens Grange Road Opened 1923. By 1941: (BA) - Props., Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 700 seats. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Booked by Roy Limbert, Malvern Theatre, Phone Malvern 777. Station, Gt. Malvern, G.W.R. Still there, 379 seats - in theatre complex. Also used for conferences.
FESTIVAL THEATRE SG46: Tel.: Malvern 777 and 888. Prop.: Roy Limbert, on behalf of Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Tel.: Whitehall 3332. Cap.: Stalls 570, D. circle 332. Barring clause: Malvern bars Worcester. Cheltenham bars Malvern (24 miles); if continued, Malvern will have to bar Cheltenham. Once nightly. Times not fixed. Two Matinées, but not fixed. Home of Malvern Company. Straight plays, musical shows, pantomimes, etc. Stage: Pros. 30ft., height 20ft., min. depth from setting line 22ft., height under fly galleries 18ft., width between fly galleries 36ft., height of grid from stage 43ft., 9 in. No counter¬weight gear. 30 sets hemp lines. Elec. equip.: 200 v. A.C., 50 cycles. Foot¬lights, four circuits with ind. dimmers. Three battens, each with four circuits with ind. dimmers. Spot bar with 12 spots, each ind. dimmer controlled. Cyclorama top lighting with eight floods. Cyclorama pit lighting with eight circuits ind. dimmed. Six dips with ind. dimmers. Four dips switch controlled. Two spots on stands. Six floods on stands. Two f-o-h roof pre¬set spots with ind. dimmers, two f-o-h following limes (Stelmar arcs). Dressing rooms: Seven single. Note - Plans have been passed for the entire reconstruction of the dressing-room accommodation, and when this work is completed there will be eleven (eight with bathroom and toilet) wardrobe room, and large chorus room (with bath and toilet). Orchestra: Acc. 10. No resident orchestra at present, as owing to war theatre has had to be run as cinema. Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table re¬producer. F-o-h or stage. Microphone. There is a permanent workshop with scene-painting frame and bridge in the existing theatre. In view of the extremely comprehensive plans for re¬construction, much of the foregoing data will be inaccurate, but all alterations will be in the nature of substantial improvements. 1949: new dressing room block added. Altered 1997. Architects: RHWL. New foyer & fly tower. 36 counterweight sets. Stage boxes removed. 840 seats. Listed Grade II.
MALVERN THEATRE Grange Road Opened 1928 – rebuild of Assembly Rooms. Architect: A. V. Rowe. 1941: (WE) - Props., Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 904 seats. Booked by R. W. Limbert. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage. 29ft. deep; eight dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Malvern 777. Station, Gt. Malvern, G.W.R. (see above for peacetime rôle)

MALVERN LINK Worcs
LINK PICTURE THEATRE Hampden Road (BA) - Lessee, Roy I.imbert, Direction, Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 15 Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 300 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 6 p.m. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Malvern 999. Station, Malvern Link, G.W.R. (Under reconstruction.) Fitness centre 2006.

MANCHESTER Lancs
ABC / CASINO CINEMA Wilmslow Road, Rusholme (BTH) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, London, W.1. 1,420 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous daily from 2 p.m. Ballroom attached, Pros¬cenium width 33ft. Phone Rusholme 4465. Stations, Central & London Road, L.M.S. Burned down.
ABC / DEANSGATE PICTURE HOUSE Opened 1912 – Manchester Ents Co 1941: (WE) - Prop., Deansgate Picturehouse (1936) Ltd. Seats 866. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 1s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. Café and Ballroom attached, Phone Deansgate 5252/3. Now a bar.
ABC / FORUM THEATRE Northenden, Wythenshawe Opened 1934. Holophane lighting. Organ: Wurlitzer 3/8 on lift (from Cameo, Cleveland, Ohio) By 1941: (WE) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,904 seats, Booked at H.O. Continuous evenings. Mats., Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat. Booked at H.O. Stage, 18ft. 6in. deep; three dressing-rooms. Café and ballroom attached. Phone Wythenshawe 2408. Station, Northenden. 1972: organ removed (to Burton-on-Trent Town Hall). Now ‘Kingdom Hall’ - Jehovah’s Witnesses.
ADELPHI CINEMA Dean Lane, Moston (BTP) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Man¬chester. 1,312 seats. Booked at Manchester. Phone Failsworth 1065. Station, Newton Heath (Dean Lane)
ALHAMBRA PAVILION H. D. Moorhouse Circuit, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ard¬wick 2226.
ALHAMBRA THEATRE Ashton Old Road Higher Openshaw Opened 1908. Architect: H. A. Turner. Bought by HDM 1910 & cinema in 1915 – start of circuit. 1941: (BTP) Prop., Alhambra (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,572 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Droylsden 1651. Station, Manchester Termini. Now Al-Hambra restaurant. Stage & dressing block gone, auditorium gutted.
AMBASSADOR SUPER CINEMA Langworthy Road, Pendleton, Levenshulme Opened 1928. Organ: Jardine 3/10 with surround (believed to be first). By 1941: (BTH) -Prop., Ambassador Super Cinema, Ltd., 14, John Dalton Street, Man¬chester. Deansgate 3542. 1,812 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage 16ft.; six dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Pendleton 1601. Station Pendleton L.M.S. Damaged by enemy action 1940. Organ scrapped 1951.
AMC Great Northern 16, Deansgate: 16 screens
ARCADIA Yew Tree Avenue, Levenshulme (WE) Prop., Northern Amusements Ltd., Prudential Chambers, South Parade, Rochdale. Tel. 2072. 992 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous nightly Mon. to Fri. Two shows Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 8d. to 1s.2d. Proscenium width 24ft. Phone Rusholme 4653. Station, Levenshulme, L.M.S.
ARDWICK EMPIRE – see New Manchester Hippodrome
ARDWICK PICTURE THEATRE Ardwick Green (BTH) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,600 seats. Continuous from a p.m. Booked at H.O. Phone Ardwick 3059. Station, London Road, L.M.S.
AVENUE CINEMA Rochdale Road Blackley
BIJOU ELECTRIC Hulme Demolished
BLACKLEY EMPIRE Blackley (BTP) - Prop., Blackley Electric Theatre, Ltd 2, Cathedral House, Manchester. Booked by L. G. Bailey. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Phone Collyhurst 2024.
BRIDGEWATER /ALCAZAR Opened c.1880s. Closed c.1910. Demolished.
BUTLER ELECTRIC THEATRE Butler Street (BTH) 900 seats. Booked at Theatre. Two shows nightly. Four Mats. weekly. Prices 2d. to 6d.
CAPITOL Parr’s Wood Road South/School lane Didsbury Opened 25th March 1931. Architect: Peter Cummings. Organ: Christie 3/10 on lift. 1,900 seats. Holophane lighting. Auditorium destroyed by fire 25th April 1932. Rebuilt. Opened 16th August 1933. Architect: Peter Cummings. Holophane lighting. Organ: Christie 4c/10 on lift+Grand Piano. To Union 1936. To ABC with circuit 1937. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, London, SW1. 1,838 seats. Pictures and Variety. Films booked at H.O. Continuous evenings, daily Mat. Continuous from 2p.m. Prices 8d. to 1s.10d. Stage 34ft.6in. deep. Eight dressing-rooms. Proscenium width 41ft.6in. Café attached. Phone Didsbury 2464. Station Didsbury, L.M.S. Closed to film 14th December 1956 - organ scrapped. Converted to ABCTV studio. Closed. To Metropolitan University Drama department. Demolished.
CAPITOL TALKIE THEATRE Princess Road, Moss Side (WE) 1,547 seats. Three shows daily. Phone Moss Side 1988. Station, London Road, L.M.S.
CARLTON SUPER CINEMA Aston New Road, Clayton (BTH) Prop., Carlton Super Cinema, Ltd., 14, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,300 seats. Booked at H.O. Pictures and Variety. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. Stage, 14ft. deep; six dressing-rooms. Proscenium width 35ft. Café attached. Phone East 0257. Demolished 2006.
CEYLON PICTURE HOUSE Thorpe Road, Newton Heath Opened 1938. (WE) -Props., Ceylon Cinema (New¬ton Heath) Ltd., Apsley House, Mossley. 800 seats. Booked at Manchester. Continu¬ous, Twice nightly Sat., Mats, Mon. and Thurs., Prices 3d. to 1s. Phone Collyhurst 3058. Station, Newton Heath, L.M.S. Carrier. Closed 1970s now furniture factory.
CINE CITY / SCALA PALACE Wilmslow Road, Withington (WE) - Prop., Withington Cinemas, Ltd., 44, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 2643. 634 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Two Houses Sat. Two changes weekly, Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 18ft. Phone Dids¬bury 3301. Station, Withington. Closed 2000. To be demolished 2005.
CINEMA Seedley (BTP) - H. D. Moorhouse Circuit, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester, Phone Ardwick 2226.
CINEPHONE / DEANSGATE PICTURE HALL 93 Market St
CINEWORLD / UGC Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre, East Didsbsury: 11 screens. Re-named mid-2005.
CINTRA CINEMA Rochdale Rd Blackley
CLAREMONT SUPER CINEMA Opened 1923. To ABC 1929. 1,581 seats, By 1941: (WE) Claremont Road, Moss Side-Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,699 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous evenings from 5.30 and Mat. daily Mon. to Fri. Continuous from 2.30 Sat. Two changes weekly. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Moss Side 2866. Station, London Road, Manchester. Closed 8th February 19587. Demolished 1974.
COLISEUM Ardwick Green (WE) - Prop., Coliseum (Manchester) Ltd., 10 Brazennose Street, Manchester. 1,787 seats. Continuous. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Ardwick 3150. Station, London Road, L.M.S.
COLLEGE PICTURE HOUSE Coupland Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock (BTP) - Prop., Dorothy Millar. Phone Chorlton 1898. 1,000 seats. Booked at hall. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 7d. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Ard¬wick 2006.
Conservative Club Hall T. Seddon (1907)
CORNERHOUSE / TATLER THEATRE Oxford Street (RCA) - Props., Times Theatres, Ltd., Century House, St. Peters Square, Manchester. Phone Cen. 0274. 296 seats. Continuous. Prices 6d. and 1s. Proscenium width 16ft. Phone Central 6015, Stations, London Road, Victoria, Central, Exchange. Now tripled.
CORONA PICTURE THEATRE Birch Street, West Gorton (BA) Opened 1912. By 1941: -Prop., Gaumont-British Pictures Corpn., Ltd., 123, Regent Street, London, W.1. Phone Regent 8080. 1,100 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Pro¬scenium width 27ft. Phone East 0369. Station, London Road, L.N.E.R. Closed to film. Cabaret.
CORONATION Northenden
Corporation Public Halls f., Steward (1907)
COSMO CINEMA Wellington Street, Gorton (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, SW1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone East 0243. Station, London Road. Sometime Bingo, now an auction house.
CRESCENT CINEMA (Picturetone) Chapman Street, Hulme - Prop., Picture Hall (Hulme) Ltd. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Booked at Hall. Prices 5d. to 10d. Phone Moss Side 2047. Station, Central
CRESTA / REGENT SUPER CINEMA Princess Road Sth. Fallowfield Opened 1929. (BTH) - Props., Gorton District Cinemas, Ltd. 1,300 seats. Pictures and Variety. Booked by Bert Abbott, Gen. Man. at Hall. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Stage, 18ft. deep; six dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1955. Station, Manchester (Welbraham Road Halt) Demolished 1961.
CROMWELL PICTURE HOUSE Pendleton (WE) - Props., Cromwell Picture House, Ltd., Liver¬pool. 1,155 seats. Continuous, Prices 6d. to 1s. Booked by P. M. Hanmer, 51a, Rodney Street, Liverpool. Phone Bank 610. Phone Pendleton 1165. Station, Pendleton, L.M.S.
DEVONSHIRE CINEMA Broughton (WE) - New Devonshire Theatre (Manchester) Co., Ltd., 44, Corporation Street, Manchester, Phone Broughton 2720. 1,300 seats. Continuous from 6 p.m. Mats., Mon. and Thurs. Booked at Palladium Cinema, Manchester
DON CINEMA THEATRE Beswick Street (BTP) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, SW.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Cinemas, Ltd. Booked at H.O. Evenings Continuous. Mats, Mon. to Thurs., Sat. Continuous from 2 p.m. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone Ardwick 2926. Station, Victoria, L.MS.
Duke of Edinburgh Hall T. J. Winson (1907)
ELLESMERE CINEMA East Lancashire Road, Worsley (WE) - Props., Ellesmere Super Cinema, Ltd., 13, St. Ann Street, Manchester. 1,250 seats, Prices 7d. to 1s.6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 45ft. Stage, 18ft. deep; four dressing-rooms. Café attached. Station, Swinton
EMPIRE Moss Empires, Ltd. (1907)
EMPIRE PICTURE THEATRE East Broughton (WE) - Props., Harry & Frank Shaw. 650 seats. Booked at Manchester. Continuous. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Pro¬scenium width 30ft. Phone Broughton 2652. Station, Manchester.
EMPRESS ELECTRIC THEATRE Oldham Road, Miles Platting Opened c.1908. Prop. Broadhead circuit. By 1941: (PTA) -Prop., C. & H. Talbot. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 7d. Phone Collyhurst 2748. Closed, now warehouse. Destroyed by fire June 2006.
EMPRESS PICTURE HOUSE Organ 1930: 2/5 Symphonique patent of Jardine-Smith Unit by 1941: (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery Circuit, 26, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 680 seats. Prices 3d. to 7d. Continuous. Booked at Manchester. Phone Pendleton 1703. Station, Pendleton
ESSOLDO / RIVOLI Rochdale Road Collyhurst (RCA) - Prop., Ben Kanter, 38 Deansgate, Manchester. Phone Bla. 9084. Booked at Manchester. 1,195 seats. Con¬tinuous Mon. to Fri. Sat, twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 45ft. Phone Collyhurst 1280. Station, London Road
ESSOLDO / RIVOLI Mount Road Gorton (RCA) -Prop., Ben Kanter, 38, Deansgate, Manchester. Phone Bla 9084. 1,506 seats. Booked at Manchester. Prices 6d.to 1s. 2d. Continuous. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 20ft.; eight dressing-rooms. Phone East 0404. Station, Belle Vue, L.M.S. Demolished, housing on site.
FOUR WAYS CINEMA New Moston (BTH) - Props. Snape Circuit, 14, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,256 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Continuous, Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 38ft. Phone Failsworth 2349. Station, Moston, L.M.S.
FREE TRADE HALL Peter Street J. Tennant (1907) 1941: Prop., Manchester Corporation, Town Hall, Manches¬ter. Enquiries to Town Hall Superintendent. Organ: Wurlitzer 4/20(22) +Piano (from Odeon/Paramount). Phone Central 3377. Occasional shows only.
FUTURIST / PALLADIUM / GRAND THEATRE Peter Street Opened 1883. Prop. Edward Garcia. To Thomas Barrasford tour. 1906 Pics & Var. – Jasper Redfern (of Sheffield) During WWI sold to Ludwig Blattner. Auditorium rebuilt as cinema 1916. Closed 1924. Religious use in auditorium, foyer car sales. New façade 1970s. Now restaurant.
GAIETY THEATRE Peter Street (No 2) Opened 1884. Architect: Alfred Darbyshire. H. M. Thorburn (1907) 1908: altered by Frank Matrcham. !922 – to cinema. By 1941: Direction, Harry Buxton. 1,215 seats. Proscenium width 26ft. Stage, 26ft.; 14 dressing-rooms. Phones, Dea 4111 and Bla 8088. Station, Central L.N.E.R. 1944 – Harry Buxton returned to live shows till 1947. Demolished 1959.
GAUMONT Oxford Street Opened 21st October 1935. Architect: William T. Benslyn & James Morrison, interiors Theodore Komisarjevsky. Built by Sidney Bernstein for Granada, on site of Stoll’s Hippodrome. Sold to G-B a few days before due to open. Organ: Wurlitzer 4/14 on lift + Grand Piano. By 1941: (BA Duosonic) - Prop., Gaumont British Pictures Corpn., Ltd. 2,300 seats. Pictures and occasional Variety. Booked at H.O. Prices 1s.4d. to 3s.6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 50ft. Stage, 26ft. deep ; nine dressing-rooms. Café and restaurant attached. Phone Central 1323. Station, Manchester. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Closed 28th January 1974. Nightclub. Demolished.
GLOBE Thomas Street, Cheetham Hill (BTP) - Props., Globe Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd. Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. Booked at H.O. 750 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Phone Cheet¬ham Hill 2537. Station, Crumpsall, L.M.S.
GLOBE Cornbrook Street, Old Trafford (BTP) - Prop., North-Western Entertainments, Ltd. Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Man¬chester. 1,230 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Booked at H.O. Phone Moss Side 2512. Stations, Manchester termini
GRAND Stockport Road, Levenshulme By 1941: (WE) -Props., Trevelyan Cinemas, Ltd. 687 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Rusholme 1108. Film Transport. Demolished 2005.
GREEN HILL CINEMA Cheetham Hill Road (BTP) Opened c.1911.By 1941 - Prop., Lessee E. J. Linsdell. 350 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Cheetham 1839. Station, Victoria, Market trader premises.
GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE Oxford Road/Grosvenor Street All Saints Opened May 1915. By 1941: (BTP) - Props., New Grosvenor (Manchester). Ltd., Imperial Buildings. Oxford Road, Manchester. Man. Dir., H. D. Moorhouse, J.P. 953 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Ardwick 3175. Station, Manchester. Closed May 1968. Bingo. Closed. Bought by Firkin theme pub chain – now The Footage & Firkin.
HARTE’s GRAND THEATRE and Fairyland Wooden circus. 1894: converted to music hall. Closed by fire 1899.
HEATON PARK CINEMA Bury Old Road (BTH) - Lessees, New Empire (Burnley) Ltd., Newgate Chambers, Rochdale. Phone Rochdale 3212. 1.053 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Two shows Sat. Mat., Mon., Wed., and Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s.2d. Stage, 6ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Prestwich 1535. Station, Heaton Park, L.M.S.
HIPPODROME / ARDWICK EMPIRE Ardwick Green. Prop. ? Moss’ Empires. Opened 16th July 1904. Archjitect: Frank Matcham. Cap. 3.000. Op mgr Walter Collins. Stoll Tour. Renamed Hipp. & refurbished 1935 on closure of Oxford St. SG46: Hippodrome Prop.: Stoll Theatres Corporation, Ltd Coliseum Buildings, London,W.1. Tel.: Manager, Ardwick 2800.Stage door, Ardwick 2342. Booking office, Ardwick 4101-2. Cap: 2,000.Varieties.Twice daily. Stage: Prosc. 35ft. x 27ft. Elec. equip.: Voltage 230 A.C., 50 cycles. Dressing rooms: 14. Amplifying equip.: Reproducer and microphone. Closed. Demolished 1964.
HIPPODROME Oxford Street Opened Boxing Day 1904. Architect: Frank Matcham. Prop., Oswald Stoll. Moss Empires, Ltd. (1907) Bought by Sidney Bernstein. Closed and demolished 1935 for erection of Gaumont.
HORNIMAN THEATRE / CAPITOL Opened 1931. Architect: Peter Cummings. Became cinema 1933. 1948 theatre again. 1950 closed as theatre. Re-opened as theatre 1971. Closed and demolished 1998.
HULME HIPPODROME / GRAND JUNCTION THEATRE Preston Street Opened 1901. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead circuit. Cap. 3,000. Opened as playhouse, but switched names 1905 with smaller variety Hipp. next door. To James Brennan Circuit 1950. To casino/bingo 1962. Closed to bingo 1986. Façade hidden by cladding/rendering. Empty.
HULME PLAYHOUSE / JUNCTION THEATRE / GRAND JUNCTION THEATRE / HULME HIPPODROME Wawick Street Opened 1902. Architect: J. J. Alley. W. B. Broadhead circuit. 1,500 seats. (1907) By 1941: (BTP) Warwick Street, Hulme - Props., Junction Cinema, Ltd., Hippodrome, Preston Street, Hulme. Phone Moss Side 1351. 1,120 seats. Booked at Hippodrome. Continuous. Prices 5d. to 9d. Proscenium width 34ft. Phone Moss Side 3033. AND (BTP) Hulme - Props., Cinebuilders Ltd. Phone Moss 3033. Booked at H.O. 1,200 seats. Continuous, Prices 4d. to 9d. Proscenium width 34 ft Station, Manchester Central. To James Brennan Circuit 1950. re-named P’hse 1951. Closed 1956. To BBC as recording studio. Closed 1987. 1990 opened as Nia Centre (drama, dance, music). Closed by 2000.
IMPERIAL PICTURE THEATRE and CAFÉ Chorlton Road, Brooks’s Bar (WE) Props., Cine¬mas (Manchester) Ltd., 20, Brazennose Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 6965. 760 seats. Twice nightly. Mats., Mon., Wed., and Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. Booked by C. Ogden, at 196 Deansgate, Manchester. Stage, 5ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone 2735. Station, Manchester Central.
KING’S CINEMA Longsight (BTP) - Props., Shaftesbury Cinema Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,129 seats. Booked by H.O. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Rush¬olme 4655. Station, Manchester
KING’S THEATRE / KING’S OPERA HOUSE Opened 1905. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead (1907) Closed 1933. ?cinema. Demolished.
KINGSWAY SUPER CINEMA Levenshulme Opened 14th March 1929. Architect: John Knight. Organ: Jardine 3/10 with surround - rebuilt by Compton 1937 - 3/10+Melotone, Grand Piano. 1,810 seats. To Union 1936, ABC 1937. By 1941: (BTH) Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, London, SW.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Cine¬mas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Pictures and Variety. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 42ft. Stage, 16ft. deep; six dressing¬-rooms. Café attached. Phone Rusholme 2891. Station, Levenshulme. Organ broken down 1952. Closed by fire 25th June 1957.
PLAZA / ROXY / La SCALA Oxford Road opened 1922.Organ: Wadsworth 3m straight By 1941 as La S.: (WE) -Props., Asso¬ciated British Cinemas, Ltd., Golden Square, W1. 2,200 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Ardwick 3559. Stations, all Man¬chester termini. Organ scrapped c.1959.
LABATT’S APOLLO / APOLLO / ABC / APOLLO THEATRE Stockport Road Ardwick (WE) Opened 29th August 1938. Architects: Peter Cummings & Alex M. Irving; interiors, Mollo & Egan, Holophane lighting, Rollo Gillespie Williams. Compton 3c/6+Melotoneon on lift. By 1941: Prop. R. C. Roy, Guardian Assurance Buildings, 25 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 4428/9. 2,631 seats. Prices 8d. to 1s. 8d. Films and Variety. Booked at Manchester. Continuous, Mon. to Fri., from 6p.m. Twice nightly Sats. and Holidays. Mats. daily. Proscenium width 53ft. Stage, 40ft.; 14 dressing-rooms. Café and Dance Hall, Phone Ardwick 1141. Station, London Road. To ABC 31st January 1943. Re-named ABC 1962. 1967 Organ broken down. Closed to film mid-70s. To independent & re-named Apollo 30th January 1977 – live shows & occ. film. Re-named Labatt’s Apollo1997. Live venue. Listed Grade II.
Liberal Club Hall A. Airey (1907)
LIBRARY THEATRE Central Libray, St. Peter’s Square Opened with rest of building 1931. Lecture theatre. 300 seats in two tiers. Projection box. 3 dressing rooms.
LIDO SUPER CINEMA (WE) Burnage-Props., Anglo-Scottish Theatres, Ltd., 2 Cavendish Square. W.1. 1,560 seats. Films booked by C. Charlton, c/o. Pyramid Theatre, Sale, near Manchester. Prices 8d. to 1s. 10d. Pro¬scenium width 36ft. Stage, 15ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Phone Heaton Moor 2244. Café attached. Station, Burnage
LUXOR CINEMA Erskine Street, Hulme (BTH) - Props., J. F. Emery Circuit, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 920 seats. Prices 5d. to 10d. Continuants evenings, Mats., Mon. and Thurs. Proscenium width 17ft. Booked at H.O. Phone Moss Side 2997. Station, Manchester
LYCEUM CINEMA Hulme (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery Circuit, 26, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 625 seats. Con¬tinuous. Prices 4d. to 10d. Booked at H.O. Phone Trafford Park 1597. Station, Man¬chester, L.M.S.
M.I.P. PALACE Hartley Street (WE) - Props. Moston Imperial Palace, Ltd. 1,000 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 2d. to 7d. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Collyhurst 2160. Station, Victoria, L.M.S.
MAGNET CINEMA Church Street, Newton Heath (BTH) - Props., Magnet Cinema (Newton Heath) Ltd., 14 John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,350 seats. Prices 4d. to 1s. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Three shows on Sat. Booked at Snape Circuit, Manchester. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Failsworth 1090. Station, Manchester.
MAGNET STREET PICTURE HOUSE (WE) -Props., Oxford Street & Market Street (Manchester) Cinemas, Ltd. Phone Deansgate 4771. 620 seats. Booked by J, F. Emery Circuit, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. Continuous. Prices 1s. to 2s. Café attached. Station, London Road.
MARKET STREET PICTURE HOUSE Market Street
MAYFAIR CINEMA
METROPOLE Openshaw (BTP) - Props., Metro¬pole (Openshaw) Ltd., 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,739 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0103. Station, Manchester.
METROPOLE (No 2) Opened 1898. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. H. Broadhead (1907) Closed 1938. Demolished 1962.
MIDLAND HOTEL THEATRE Opened 1903 – ballroom conversion. 1914 – dismantled and returned to ballroom use.
MOSLEY PICTURE HOUSE (BTH) Stott Street, Beswick. Props., Mrs. W. N. Watts & J.V. Tune. 603 seats. Booked at Hall by Man. Two shows nightly. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone East 0140. Stations, Manchester termini.
Moss Side Assembly Rooms Ashcroft (1907)
Moss Side Council Rooms Librarian (1907)
NEW MANCHESTER HIPPODROME (WE) see Hippodrome / Empire Ardwick - Stoll Circuit.
NEW OXFORD THEATRE / PICTURE HOUSE Oxford Street- PCT 1911. By 1941: (WE) Props., Oxford Street & Market Street (Manchester) Cinemas, Ltd. Phone Central 3402. 1,150 seats. Booked by Emery’s Circuit, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Continuous, Prices 1s. to 2s. Phone Blackfriars 7876. Now U.S. fast food shop.
NEW PALACE (BTP) Farmside Place, Stockport Road, Levenshulme - Props., Trustees of J. Harrison. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s.
NEW POPULAR PICTURE HOUSE Chapman Street, Hulme (Electrocord) - Props., A. L. Ward & A. C. Goulden, 6, Brown Street, Manchester. 400 seats. Booked at Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 6d. Phone Moss Side 2158.
NEW ROYAL PICTURE THEATRE Ashton New Road (BTH) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,244 seats. Booked at H.O. Evenings Continuous and Mats. daily. Continuous from 2 p.m. on Sat. Phone East 0374. Stations, Manchester termini.
NEWS THEATRE 16 Oxford Street (BTH) -Props., Jacey Cinemas, Ltd., Somerset House, Temple Street, Birmingham. Phone Mid 2941. 435 seats. Prices 7d. and 1s. 2d. Continuous from 11a.m. Booked at Manchester. Café attached. Phone Central 0497. Proscenium width 28ft. Station, Central, L.M.S.
ODEON Cheetham Hill (WE) - Props., Odeon (Cheetham Hill) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous Mon. to Fri. from 6.30 p.m. Three shows on Sat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 44ft. Stage, 18ft. deep; seven dressing-rooms, Phone Collyhurst 1188. Station, Manchester.
ODEON THEATRE / PARAMOUNT Oxford Street Opened 6th October 1930. Architect: Verity & Beverley. Organ: Wurlitzer 4/20(22) on lift + Piano (pipework divided). 2,920 seats. To Odeon 1939. By 1941: (WE) Props,. Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 3s. 6d. Phone Manchester Central 3964. Café attached. All Manchester stations. Organ removed to Free Trade Hall 1972. Closed 1973, twinned 1974. Eventually 7 screens. Closed 2nd September 2004. Sold. Empty.
ODEON THEATRE Withington Road, Whalley Range (WE) - Props., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Café. Stage; four dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1668.
ODEON / UCI Filmworks The Printworks Centre: 20 screens. Re-named November 2005.
ODEON / UCI the filmworks Trafford Centre, The Dome: 20 screens. Re-named November 2005.
OLYMPIA Hyde Road, Gorton (WE) - Props., Gorton & District Cinemas, Ltd. 750 seats. Booked by Bert Abbott at Regent, Fallowfield. Continuous. Three shows Sat. Stage, 12ft. deep; two dressing-rooms, Prices 5d. to 10d. Phone East 0436. Stations, Belle Vue & Hyde Road, L.M.S. Retail use.
OPERA HOUSE / NEW QUEEN’S THEATRE / NEW THEATRE Quay Street Opened 1912. Architect: Farquharson, Richardson, & Gill. 1914 Organ: Jardine 2/41 straight tubular pneumatic action (later removed to Melbourne Cathedral, Australia). 1915 renamed. 1920, re-named. SG46: Prop.: Howard & Wyndham, Ltd., King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. Bookings: Howard & Wyndham, Ltd., 2-5 Old Bond Street, London, W.1. Cap.: Stalls 905, boxes 24, D. circle 519, balcony 540. Barring clause: Radius of 20 miles prior and one month after (inc. Sundays). No broadcasts, talking films or television before engage¬ment. Once nightly 7, or as arranged. Matinées Wednesday and Saturday. Musical comedy, ballet, opera, plays, drama. Stage: Pros. 37ft. x 37ft. (to pelmet 24ft. 9 in.) max. depth 42½ft., height under flies 28ft. 7 in., width between fly galleries 50ft. 9 in., clearance pipes under 25ft. 3 in., stage to grid 57ft. 3 in. Counterweight gear, 37 lines. Hemp lines 56. Revolving stage. Elec. equip.: Voltage 4001230 A.C., 50 cycles. Foot¬lights, four colour circuits, eight ind. dimmers, two ends and one centre on one dimmer each, Battens, five with colour circuits, ind. dimmers each colour. Spot bar, 16 spots, each dimmer controlled, seven dips with three dimmers on three colour dips switch controlled. Floods on stage, 6. Twelve 4-colour f-o-h pre-set spots, auto control, one master and two switches per lamp. Four f-o-h follow¬ing limes, two (60 amp.) focus lanterns and two sunspot arc lanterns. One acting area barrel with four lanterns, all dimmer controlled. Supply: One motor generator 400 v. to motor side giving output of 400 amps. at 100 v. D.C., dynamos side for arcs, Perches: Two focus sunray lanterns with colours. Two 25 amp. carbon arc lanterns. Dips: Four stage plugs to take 25 amp. incandescent for plug. Flies: One ind. incandescent plug to take 40 amp. Spare: Two 80 amp. switches for touring companies’ spot boards. Fittings: Four 8ft. lengths with 32 B.C. lamp holders. Two 6ft. lengths with 22 B.C. lamp holders. Four 2ft. lengths with 8 B.C. lamp holders. Six 3-way 25 amp. teak-cased plug boxes. Four 10 amp. teak-cased plugs. Dressing rooms: 16 and six chorus, acc. 40. Orchestra pit: Acc. 30. Resident quintet. Leader, 1st violin, ‘cello, bass, pianoforte. Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table re¬producer and microphone. Can be switched to front of house or stage speakers. Closed 1979. Bingo. Re-opened 1984 under Palace Theatre Trust. Architect: Smith & Way. 1920 seats. Listed Grade II. Still open as theatre.
OSBORNE THEATRE / ROYAL OSBORNE THEATRE Oldham Road (No 2) Opened 13th April 1896. Architect: J. J. Alley. Owner: William Henry Broadhead (1907) By 1941: (BTP) Props., Osborne Theatre (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings. 7, Oxford Road, Manchester, Phone Ardwick 2226. 1,591 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 1491. Station, Manchester. Closed by fire 1958.
PALACE Manchester Rd, Droylsden Opened 1910. Demolished 2003.
PALACE Farmside Place, Levenshulme (BTP) - H. D. Moorhouse (Trustee of J. R. Harrison) 7, Oxford Road, Manchester, Phone Ardwick 2226. 111 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Rusholme 2209. Station, Manchester. Now nightclub.
PALACE Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton (WE) Props., Cinemas (Chorlton) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 744 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Chorlton 3635. Station, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, L.M.S.
PALACE CINEMA Collyhurst Street, Roch¬dale Road (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Bla 7876. 700 seats. Prices 3d. to 6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 20ft. Phone Col 2480. Station, Victoria, L.M.S.
PALACE THEATRE / PALACE of VARIETIES Oxford Street Opened 1891. Architect: Alfred Darbyshire & F. B. Smith.1896 altered by frank Matcham. Walter de Frece (1907) 1913 auditorium rebuilt by Bertie Crewe. SG46: Prop.: Manchester Palace of Varieties, Ltd., Oxford Street, Manchester, 1. Agents: Moss Empires, Ltd., Cran¬bourn Mansions, London, W.C.2. Cap.: Boxes 32, stalls 1,016, circle 636, balcony 539. Barring clause: 40 weeks before, two weeks after. Six miles. Once nightly 130. Wednesday and Saturday 2. Twice nightly 5.45 and 8. No matinées. Musical attractions variety and revues. Stage: Prosc. 42½ft. x 30ft., min. depth 30½ft., height under flies 21ft., width between fly galleries 50ft., stage to grid 60ft. Counter-weight gear under consideration. 60 sets of hemp lines. Elec. equip.: Voltage 200 D.C. (15 amp. supply A.C. for special effects, 230 v.). -Footlights, three circuits. Battens, five, each with three circuits, all ind. dimmers. Equipment being renewed. Dressing rooms : Five and one chorus, acc. 24. Sep. band room. Orchestra pit: Acc. 26-30. Resident orchestra 15 (pianoforte, four violins, ‘cello, bass, flute, tenor sax, two clarinets, two alto sax, two trumpets, two trombones, drums). Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table reproducer and microphone. Reproducer switched to front of house and stage speakers. 1953 – façade modernised with glazed faience. 1979 sold by Moss’ Empires to Raymond Slater. Restoration & renovation under Theatre Trust. Architect: Derek Boulton (Smith & Way). Sold to Apollo Leisure 1990. Listed Grade II. Cap. 2000.
PALAIS de LUXE Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy (WE) Props., Palais De Luxe (Chorlton) Ltd. Gen. & Bkg. Man., Sam Parkinson. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Three shows Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Chorlton 635. Station, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, L.M.S.
PALATINE PICTURE HOUSE Palatine Road, Withington (BTP) - Props., South Manchester Picture Co., Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,034 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Didsbury 3605. Station, Manchester.
PALLADIUM Rochdale Road (WE) - Props., Blackley Palais de Danse, Ltd. 1,750 seats. Pictures and Variety, Films booked by F. E. Spring, 3, Parsonage, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7905; and Variety by Percy Hall’s Agency, Oxford Road, Manchester. Twice nightly; Mats., Mon., Wed, and Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage 12ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Café end Dance Hall attached. Phone Colly¬hurst 1058. Station, London Road, L.M.S.
PAVILION Church Street, Newton Heath (BTH) - Props., Central Cinema Co. (Newton Heath) Ltd. 1,000 seats. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Two changes weekly. Station, Dean Lane, L.M.S.
Pendleton Town Hall f., Chief Cashier (1907)
PICTURE HOUSE-Props., Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, Ltd., New Gallery, Regent Street, London, W.1.
PICTUREDROME Broughton Lane (BA Duosonic) - Props., Broughton Picturedrome Co. 450 seats. Continuous, Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 9d. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.
PLAYHOUSE Oldham Road, Miles Platting (RCA) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,847 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Collyhurst 2878. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S. Demolished 1998.
PLAZA Gorton Lane (BTP) - Props., Amusall’s Ltd., Orme’s Buildings, Parsonage. Phone Bla 0485. 640 seats. Booked by Amusall’s, Parsonage, Manchester. Twice nightly. Mats. three times a week. Prices 3d. & 9d. Phone East 0425. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.
PLAZA (PTA) - Prop., J. Sereno. 1,100 seats. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 9d. Station, Exchange.
POPULAR Hulme
POPULAR PICTURE PALACE Wilson Street, Miles Platting (BTH) - Prop., Miles Platting I.L.P., 2a Enoch Street, Miles Platting. Phone Collyhurst 2601. 350 seats. Booked by E. J. Howarth. Two shows nightly, three mats. weekly. Prices 3d. to 5d. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S.
PREMIER CINEMA Cheetham Hill Road (Western) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,980 seats. Booked at H.O. Mats. daily from 2.30p.m.; Sat, continuous from 2p.m. Phone Cheetham Hill 2076. Café attached. Station, Victoria, L.M.S. Now snooker club.
PRINCE’S CINEMA Grey Mare Lane Openshaw (BTP) - Prop., Prince’s Cinema (Openshaw) Ltd. 7, Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Man¬chester, Phone Ardwick 2226. 1,600 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0641. Stations, Manchester termini.
PRINCE’S THEATRE (No 1) Opened 1864. Architect: Edward Salomons. Altered 1869 & 1901 by Alfred Darbyshire. George Lee (1907) Closed.
PRINCESS CINEMA (BTP) Conran Street, Harpurley - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 795 seats. Continuous. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 2025. Station, Manchester,
PRINCESS PICTURE THEATRE Raby Street, Moss Side (BTP) - Props., Cinebuilders, Ltd. 540 seats. Booked at Hall. Two shows nightly. Prices 4d. to 9d. Phone Moss Side 2724. Stations, London Road, Central & Victoria. (Closed.)
PUBLIC HALL Alderley Edge
QUEEN’S THEATRE (No 2) / LONDON MUSIC HALL Opened 1862 – hotel conversion. 1870 – reconstructed by Edward Salomons. R. Flanagan (1907) Demolished.
QUEEN’S PARK HIPPODROME Opened 1904. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead (1907) Closed 1952. demolished 1966.
QUEEN’S PICTURE HOUSE Ashton Old Road (WE) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,205 seats. Booked at H.O. Evenings continuous and Mats. daily. Continuous from 2p.m. Sats. Phone East 1040, Stations, Mayfield or London Road, L.M.S.
QUEEN’S PICTURE THEATRE Stockport Road, Longsight (WE) - Prop., Cinemas (Man¬chester) Ltd., 20, Brazennose Street, Man¬chester. Phone Blackfriars 6965. Booked by Chas. Ogden, 196 Deansgate, Manchester. Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Rusholme 1004. Station, London Road, L.M.S. Films collected Man¬chester offices.
RADNOR CINEMA Radnor Street, Hulme (WE) - Prop., Arthur Murray, 1,100 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Booked at Hall. Pictures and Variety. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage, 7½ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1563. Station, Manchester Central.
REGAL Stockport Road Levenshulme (WE) Opened 14th December 1937. Architect: W. R. Glen. Props., Associated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,850 seats. Continuous from 6 p.m. Mats. daily. Proscenium width 36ft. Booked at H.O. Stage, 40ft. wide, 16ft. deep; four dressing-rooms. Phone Rus. 1316. Station, Levenshulme, L.M.S. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Balcony fire 1957. Closed 22nd April 1961. Converted to bowling alley.
REGENT Rochdale Road (BTP) - Prop., Mostyn Sereno. 600 seats. Continuous Sat., twice nightly. Booked locally. Mat., Mon. and Thurs. Prices 3d. to 9d. Phone Bla 2004. REX Chapel Street Salford Opened 1912. Bingo.
REX PICTURE HALL Ashton Old Road (BTH) - Props., Openshaw Picture Hall Co., Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 830 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0162. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.
RIALTO Bury New Road, Higher Broughton (WE) Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd. 1,400 seats. Continuous. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage, 13ft. deep; seven dressing-¬rooms, Phone 1367. Station, Victoria, L.M.S.
RIVIERA Cheetham Hill Road Later Top Rank Bowl.
RIVOLI CINEMA Denmark Road, Rusholme - Prop., Rivoli Estates, Ltd., 44, Corporation Street, Manchester. 1,110 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. Stage, 18ft. deep; three dressing-rooms. Phone Ardwick 1452. Station, Manchester Central. Now part of Manchester University.
ROTA Ash Road/Thornley Road Denton Opened 10th December 1934. Architect: Henry Elder. To Union 1936. By 1941: (WE) - Controlled by Union Cinemas, Ltd. 1,206 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0640. Station, Denton L.M.S. Closed 24th October 1959. Demolished. Housing.
ROY PICTUREDROME Ashton Old Road, Ardwick (Picturetone) - Prop., G. Dewhurst. 600 seats.
ROYAL CINEMA Buckley Street, Rochdale Road (Picturetone) - Prop., A. Wilkinson & J. Mooney. 600 seats. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly, Prices 2d. to 5d. Station, Victoria, L.M.S.
ROYAL OLYMPIC Opened 1838. cClosed 1841. Demolished.
ROYAL PICTURE THEATRE Pendleton-Props., Pendleton Pictures Co., Ltd. Booked at 26 Cross Street, Manchester, by J. F. Emery. 780 seats.
RUSHOLME PAVILION Opened 1910. Demolished 1965.
RUSHOLME THEATRE Wilmslow Road (BTP) - Props., Rusholme Cinema, Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 938 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Rusholme 2284. Station, Manchester
St. JAMES’S THEATRE (No 2) Opened 1884. H. A. Jordison (1907) Became cinema 1908. Demolished.
SHAFTESBURY CINEMA THEATRE Stock¬port Road (BTP) - Prop., Shaftesbury Cinema Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,050 seats. Two shows Sat. Continuous rest of week. Booked at H.O. Phone Rusholme 4103. Station, Manchester.
SHAKESPEARE PICTURE HALL Halliwell Lane, Cheetham Hill (WE) - Prop., Swinton Entertainments, Ltd. Man. Dir., J, F. Emery, J.P., Midland Hank House, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. 900 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 5d. to 1s. 5d. Phone Cheetham Hill 2180. All Manchester Sta¬tions
SHOWCASE Hyde Road, Belle Vue 14 screens / 3,200 seats
STAMFORD CINEMA Audenshaw (BA) - Prop., L. Bailey, 22 Cathedral House, Manchester. 650 seats.
STAR PICTURE THEATRE Gt. Ducie Street (BTH) - Prop., L. Burgess. 600 seats. Two shows nightly. Station, London Road, L.M.S.
STUDIOS One & Two / REGAL Twins Oxford Road. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Regal twins built by Charlie Ogden’s Co. To Star Circuit.
TATLER Whitworth Street West Opened 1911. Demolished for new Tatler, 1935.
TEMPLE PICTORIUM Cheetham Hill Road (BTH) - Props., Temple Pictorium (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ardwick 1226. 846 seats. Booked at H.O., Manchester. Phone Collyhurst 1939. Station, Manchester,
THEATRE ROYAL CINEMA / THEATRE ROYAL Peter Street (No 1) Opened 1845. Architect: John Gould Irwin & Francis Chester. 1875 interior remodelled Architect: Edward Salomons. Lessee: Edmonstone Shirra (1907) To pics in 1921 by J. F. Emery. By 1941 - (WE) Lessees, H. D. M. (Cinema) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,943 seats. Booked at H.O. Café attached. Phone Blackfriars 9366. Station, Manchester Central, L.M.S. 1963: altered for Cinerama. 1972 closed to film. Bingo. Listed Grade II. Now a nightclub.
TIVOLI / ALEXANDRA / FOLLY MUSIC HALL Opened 1865 – chapel conversion. Rebuilt 1897. Architect : Perceval. C. A. Wilks (1907) Became cinema 1921. 1927 – fire. Demolished 1936.
TOWER CINEMA Piercy Street, Ancoats (BTP) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Ardwick 2926. Station,Victoria, Manchester.
TRAFFORD PICTURE HOUSE Talbot Road, Old Trafford (BTH) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, W.1. 1128 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two Mats. weekly. Continuous Sat. from 2p.m. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Trafford Park 0986. Station, Old Trafford
TROCADERO Wilmslow Road, Rusholme (BTP) - Props., Platt Picturedrome, Ltd. 850 seats. Two shows daily. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 7d. Phone Rusholme 4751. Closed 1975, following fire, demolished.
TWIN REGAL KINEMAS Oxford Road (WE) - Prop., The Regal (Manchester) Ltd. 1,600 seats. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 9d. Stage. 6ft. deep; four dressing-rooms, Phone Central 2437. Café attached, Manchester Stations,
VERONA, GUIDE BRIDGE – see under Guide Bridge Odeon
VICTORIA Great Clowes Street, Broughton (BTP) - Props., Broughton Cinema, Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7, Oxford Road, Manchester. Booked at H.O. Phone Blackfriars 9847. Station, Manchester
VICTORIA AVENUE CINEMA Higher Blackley (WE) - Prop., S. Haling, 12, Moreton Street, Manchester, 1,400 seats. Continuous. Two shows nightly Sats. Pictures and Variety. Booked at Hall. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 42ft. Stage, 50ft.; six dressing-rooms. Phone: Cheetham Hill 1401. Film Transport
VICTORIA HALL Daniel Street, Butler Street, Ancoats -Props., Manchester & Salford Wesleysan Mission, Two shows, Sat. Price, 3d. Station, Central, C.L.C.
VICTORY Moston (BTP)
VICTORY CINEMA Varley Street, Miles Platting (BTP) - Prop, A. E. W. Pentelow, ‘‘Wood¬lands,’ Grindleford, Sheffield. Phone Grindleford 152. 400 Seats. Booked by Prop. Twice nightly. Mat. Sat. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Collyhurst 1294. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S.
VICTORY Middleton - H. D. Moorhouse Circuit, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester.
VICTORY PICTURE HOUSE Charles Street, Blackley (BTP) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,367 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 2495. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.
WEST END CINEMA Withinglon Road, Whalley Range (WE) -Props., West End Cinema (Manchester) Ltd. 1,032 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly, Sat. and holidays. Price, 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 46ft. Phone Moss Side 1668, Cafe attached, Stations, Manchester termini,
WHITEHALL CINEMA Old Lane, Higher Openshaw (BTH) - Prop., Whitehall Cinema Co., Ltd. 800 seats, Booked at the Hall by H.Vost, Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Droylsden 1325. Stations, Victoria or Exchange. Now warehouse.
WYCLIFFE CINEMA Princess Road Moss Side
YORK CINEMA York Street Hulme (WE) - Prop., Thomas & Norman Royle, Taormina, Manor Drive, West Didsbury. Phone 3322. 1,414 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Central 3823. Station, Central, London Road, Victoria or Exchange.

MANNINGTREE Essex
PLAZA CINEMA / CINEMA / CINEMA THEATRE Station Road Opened mid-20s. Conversion of factory with added entrance block. Prop., Tozer & Linsell circuit. 1926 – name cut to Cinema. By 1923 Plaza – Philip J. Cleife. To Owen Cooper c.1936. Modernised. 450 seats. By 1941: (MPA) - Props., E. Owen Cooper Theatres, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Phone Manningtree 123. Closed and demolished in 1960s. Housing estate.

MANSFIELD Notts
ABC / MGM / CANNON / ABC / GRAND THEATRE Leeming Street Opened Monday 17th October 1906 (planned to be Royal Op Hse). Architect: Thomas V. Woodhouse, Newcastle. Prop. Capt. Cecil Clayton – Mansfield, Sutton & District Theatres Co. Tour date. Cap. 1,240. 6d to 2/6d, boxes 10/6d. Edward Gray (1907) Closed July 1909. Re-decorated, stage enlarged. Architect: Excell. Re-opened 20th December 1909 – The Broken Heart (play). Façade altered/re-built 1923. 1928: auditorium altered, new stage & 60’fly tower + 3-storey dressing room block added to rear. 6 boxes. Architect: J. H. Tomlinson. Re-opened Monday 15th October 1928 – Barbed Wire (musical play). Cinematograph licence from January 1929. Leased to ABC mid-1931, sold to them 1932. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square. London, W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,179 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Pictures and Variety. Proscenium width 33ft. Stage 40ft. deep; 10 dressing-rooms. Phone Mansfield 138. Stations, Mansfield, L.M.S. & L.N.E.R. Stage Play licence maintained to May 1955. Re-named ABC c.1960. Tripled from 23rd March 1978 – stalls, circle, stage. To Cannon 1986 & re-named. To Pathé, re-named MGM 1992. Re-named ABC. Closed 1997 on multiplex opening. Now snooker club.
BIJOU MUSIC HALL Greyhound Hotel Stockwell Gate Open in 1904 – conversion of Assembly/Ball-room? Music Hall with early film. 1905 prop. Matthew Shacklock (hotel licensee), mgr/chairman Ned Herbert. Pianist 1908 Joe Littlewood. Closed c. 1909. To other use.
CENTURY / HIPPODROME Midworth Street Opened 8th October 1906. 1912 bought & rebuilt as cinema. Prop. Oaksford Theatres, Ltd. Mgr. Capt. Clayton (of Grand Theatre). To Granada January 1936. By 1941: (WE) - Phone Mansfield 926. Prop., The Granada Theatres, Ltd. 36, Golden Square, W.1. Phone Gerrard 3554. CinemaScope, re-named, re-opened 5th September 1955. Part-time bingo 1962. Closed to film. Demolished 1991.
EMPIRE SUPER CINEMA / EMPIRE PALACE of VARIETIES Stockwell Gate/Rosemary Street Opened Bank Holiday Monday 3rd August 1914. Architect: W. Willoughby. Converted to cinema 1922. Shapeero circuit. To G-B with circuit March 1928. By 1941: (BA) - Prop., Gaumont-British Picture Corpn., Ltd. 123, Regent Street, London, W.1. 823 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous daily. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Mansfield 297. Stage, 18ft. deep. Station, Mansfield. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Closed 5th or 14th January 1961 – The Seige of Sidney Street and Hello London. Sold 1962. Demolished 1973.
FILM THEATRE Old Library Opened 14th May 1980 – Fedora. Conversion of part of former library. Cost £12,000.
GRANADA / PLAZA Westgate Opened 4th August 1930. Architect: Alfred J. Thraves. Prop., Plaza Mansfield Ltd. (Oaksford Theatres). Jnt man. dirs. B. Oaksford & W. R. Bates. c.1550 seats. Gen. mgr. B. Oakford. Cont 2.30 – 10.30, Sat mat. & twice nightly. 9d to 2s. To Granada September 1934. By 1941: (WE) - Props., The Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, W.1. Phone Gerrard 3554. Booked at H.O. Con¬tinuous. Phone Mansfield 926. Café attached. Re-named 20th April 1942. 1530 seats by 1967. closed 26th June 1973. Demolished immediately for Littlewood’s shop.
ODEON / ABC Nottingham Road: 8 screens. Opened 1997. Seats: 1: 393 2: 393 3: 246 4: 246 5: 221 6: 221 7: 193 8: 193
PALACE THEATRE / CIVIC THEATRE / Electric PALACE THEATRE Leeming Street Opened 13th December 1910. Architect: F. P. Cook & Lane. Prop., Electric Theatres Co. Cine-variety. Pros 22’, depth 23’ 6”, width 45’, grid 30’. 7 dressing rooms. New frontage 1937. By 1941: (BTH) Prop., Sher¬wood Palaces, Ltd., Whitefriars House, Friar Lane, Nottingham. 740 seats. Continuous nightly. Two changes weekly, Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Nottingham. Phone 882. Station, Mansfield, L.M.S. Stage Play licence from 10th July 1944 to 17th November 1954. Bought by council 1954. Civic Hall. Became Civic Theatre 1956. Frontage altered and stalls rake increased. Stage Play licence from 12th March 1956. 497 seats. Later new fly tower. Now 12 dressing rooms. 582 seats.
POPULAR PICTURE PALACE / ELM TREE CINEMA / Elm Tree Club Elm Tree Street Hall built behind terrace housing, and entrance through conversion. Opened as cinema 4th July 1910. Closed by 1912. To plasterer & decorator.
QUEEN’S THEATRE / PICTUREDROME Belvedere Street Opened Thursday 1st April 1920. Cine licence allowed to lapse 1928. Billiard Hall. Became Queen’s Th. Monday 10th December 1934. Closed late 30s. ?Ministry store WWII. Many uses after.
RITZ Chesterfield Road Opened Thursday 24th September 1936. Prop. Ritz Cinema (Mansfield) Ltd (J. E. Barnes, J. A. Tancred, & G. Nicholson) 650 stadium seats. February 1938 Hammond 2m electronic organ. Auditorium burned out Sunday 20th March 1938. Re-opened Saturday 30th July 1938 – Saratoga. Free 50-car park. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Ritz Pictures (Mansfield) Ltd. 622 seats. Con¬tinuous weekdays, Sat. twice nightly and Mat.; once nightly Sun. Prices. 8d. to 1s.2d. Booked by J. E. Barnes, The Phar¬macy, Langwith. Phone Shirebrook 284. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone Mansfield 1218. Station, Mansfield, L.M.S. By 1952 mgr. B. B. Brooks. CinemaScope 25th August 1955 – Drum Beat. Closed Sunday 4th May 1958 – Just For You and Turning Point. Converted to garage.
ROCK PICTURE HOUSE Skerry Hill Opened January 1915. Prop., Shapeero circuit. To G-B with circuit March 1928. By 1941: (BA) - Prop., Denman Midlands Cinemas, Ltd. 760 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Mansfield 333. Station, Mansfield, L.M.S. & L.N.E.R. Re-equipped for CinemaScope September 1955. Closed 30th October 1956 – The Man Who Knew Too Much and The Good Beginning. New projectors to Mansfield Empire. Sold for retail use. Still there in mid-90s.
TIVOLI see Mansfield Woodhouse
Town Hall f., R. Langley (1907) Lantern lectures. Early film seasons.
VICTORIA PICTURES / Victoria Hall Opened c.1901. f., E. Gouk (1907) 1st cinema, by George Fox – local publican. Closed to film between April 1924 (last advert.) and licence being not renewed in 1928. Became Palais de Danse. Now club.

MANSFIELD-WOODHOUSE Notts
TIVOLI / CINEMA / PICTURE HOUSE / TIVOLI Station Street M. Sanson (1907) Closed c.1905. Opened as cinema August Bank Holiday 1912. Pictures & variety. To George Hogg. Closed Christmas 1931. Re-opened as Tiv 1933. 320 seats on one floor. 6d, 8d, 9d 1s. By 1941: (Imperial) - Prop., Tivoli Pictures (Mansfield-Woodhouse) Ltd., Station Street, Mansfield-Woodhouse. 312 seats. Booked by J. E. Barnes, The Pharmacy, Langwith, Mansfield. Continuous. Two shows and Mat. Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Phone Shirebrook 284. Station, Mansfield¬-Woodhouse, L.M.S. Refurbished 1947. 1950 prices 9d to 1/9d. Closed Saturday 3rd May 1958.

MARCH Cambs
HIPPODROME (WE) Opened 1928. - Prop., March Amusements, Ltd., Hippodrome, March. 903 seats. Prices 8d. to 2s. 2d. Booked at London. Continu¬ous. Proscenium width 32ft. Stage, 24ft. deep. Five dressing-rooms. Phone 3178. Station, March, L.N.E.R. Run by Hipp Co. 1936-70 & 1985- . 96 seats. Closed c.2002. Projector & sound equipment to Stockport Plaza.
PALACE Opened 1912. Closed – florist, then estate agency in foyer. Auction room in auditorium.
Public Hall Theatre f., J. Collingwood (1907)
REGENT (RCA) - Prop., March Amusements, Ltd. Hippodrome, March. 408 seats. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Booked in London. Stage 26ft. deep. Five dressing-rooms. Proscenium width 20ft. Phone March 3178. Station, March, L.N.E.R. Burned down in 70s.

MARDEN and NORTHIAM Kent
- Mon. - Travelling show G. Hughes.

MARGATE Kent
ASTORIA Cliftonville (WE) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, London, W.1. 1,505 seats. Continuous. Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 36ft. Stage, 18ft. Two dressing-rooms. Phone Margate 1565. Café attached. Station, Margate (Temporarily closed.)
CAMEO THEATRE Northdown Road (RCA) Prop., L. Morris, 52, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.1. Phone Gerrard 1668. 450 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Prices 6d. to 2s. Phone Margate 1207. Station, Margate, S.R. Films by Motor Transport.
Dane Park J. Saxby (1907)
DREAMLAND (1) Hall by-the-Sea ‘Lord’ Geo. Sanger (1907) 1929: Organ Noterman 2m. 17s. Closed 1935 for Dreamland (2). Organ removed, re-built and transferred.
DREAMLAND SUPER CINEMA (2) Opened 1935. Architects: Leather & Granger. Organ: Compton/Noterman 4/19+solo ’cello with surround on lift & grand piano. (WE) - Prop. Margate Estates Co., Ltd., Dreamland Park, Margate. 2,200 seats. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Margate 844. Café and Dance Hall attached, (Closed.) Split for bingo/cinema in circle. Twinned - seats: 1: 378 2: 376. Bingo & organ in stalls.
Foresters’ Hall f., R. H. Fright (1907)
GRAND (No 2) F. Mouillot (1907)
HIPPODROME F. Mouillot & W. de Frece (1907) By 1941: (RCA) - Prop., Associated Theatres (Margate) Ltd. Receiver, W. T. Thorn, 5 Cecil Square, Margate. 1,000 seats. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 2s. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage, 20ft. deep ; six dressing-rooms, Phone 1190. Station, Margate. SG46: Allgood Entertainments, Ltd., Hippodrome, Cecil Square, Margate. Cap.: Stalls 460, boxes (4) seating 20, D. circle 642, (boxes 2, seating 8) gallery 350. Barring clause: Birchington, Margate, Westgate, Broad¬stairs, Ramsgate. Once nightly 7. Mats. Wednesday and Thursday. Type of entertainment: Theatrical. Stage: Prosc. 31ft., height 23ft., min. depth from setting line 35ft., height under fly galleries 19ft., width between fly galleries 40ft., height of grid from stage 41ft. No counterweight gear. 30 lines. Elec. equip.: 240 v. (lighting) 480 v. D.C. Footlights, four circuits with ind. dimmers. Four battens each with four circuits with ind. dimmers. Four dips, switch con¬trolled, Six floods on stands. Two f-o-h following limes. Dressing rooms: Eight single, two chorus, acc. 40. Orchestra: Acc. 12. No resident orchestra. Amplifying equip.: Two-turntable reproducer. F-o-h only. Microphone. The premises include a restaurant, where artistes can obtain lunch and dinner daily except Sundays. Fully licensed public-house.
Kursaal (1907)
PARADE CINEMA The Parade (GB) - Prop., John Armes. 537 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Prices 8d. to 1s. 10d. Proscenium width 25ft. Phone Margate 229. Station, Margate West S.R.
PLAZA / CINEMA de LUXE High Street (WE) - Prop., L. Morris, 52 Shaftesbury Avenue. W.1. Phone Gerrard 1668. 422 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Margate 58. Station, Margate West, S.R. Now religious use.
QUEEN’S HALL Prop.: Corporation. Made from colonnade and court of Winter Gardens post-WWII.
REGAL Cecil Square (WE) Opened 21st December 1934. Architect: Robert Cromie. 1,795 seats. By 1941: Prop., Regal (Margate) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Booked by Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Proscenium width 40ft. Café attached. Phone Margate 1800. Station, Margate. Bombed 1941.
THEATRE ROYAL ‘Patent Theatre’ (No 3) H. Macknight (1907)
WINTER GARDENS Fort Crescent Opened 1912 as Concert hall. Flat-floor hall with balcony. Cap. 1,800. Band platform re-built as stage 30s. Summer season variety.

MARKET DEEPING Lincs
EMPIRE CINEMA (BA) – Opened c.1934. Architects: Ward & Woolnough. Props., Bancroft Circuit. Booked at 56, Bridge Street, Peterborough. Phone Peterborough 2297. 500 seats. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Deeping 336. Station, James Deeping & Tallington. CinemaScope from 5th July 1956. Closed May 1963. Now car showroom.
ELECTRIC PICTUREDROME 1922: A. Briggs proprietor. Closed. Demolished.

MARKET DRAYTON Salop
Assembly Room Wycherley (1907)
HIPPODROME SUPER CINEMA By 1941: (WE) - Prop., T. E. Markham, Ye Olde Wyche Theatre, Nantwich. Phone Nantwich 5338. 906 seats. Occasional Variety. Booked at H.O. Continuous even¬ings. Mat. Sat. Stage, 32ft. deep. Four dressing-rooms. Prices 8d. to 1s. 9d. Phone Market Drayton 122, Station, Market Drayton. G.W.R. Sold to S.M. Super Cinemas. Closed to film. Kwik Save. Closed 2006.
ROYAL FESTIVAL Drayton Centre Theatre with full cinema facilities.
TOWN HALL CINEMA / New Town Hall Secretary (1907) By 1941: (Film Industries) - Prop. Sydney T. Collett. 500 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Mon. to Fri. at 7.15 p.m. Sat, 2.30 and 6 p.m. Booked at Birmingham. Phone Market Drayton 2151. Station, Market Drayton, G.W.R.

MARKET HARBOROUGH Leics
Corn Exchange f., Town Clerk (1907)
COUNTY CINEMA 19, The Square (Gyrotone) - Prop., Showfilms, Ltd., 55, St. Mary’s Road, Market Harborough. Phone 31. 600 seats. Booked at Oriental Cinema by R. Justice. Two shows Sat only. Prices 5d. to 1s. 4d. Occasional Variety. Stage, 12ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Station. Market Harborough L.M.S. Demolished.
MARKET HARBOROUGH THEATRE
ORIENTAL CINEMA 55 St. Mary’s Road (WE) - Prop., Showfilms, Ltd., 55, St. Mary’s Road, 550 seats. Man. Dir., R. Justice. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 3d, Phone 2431. Demolished.
RITZ Northampton Road Opened 22nd May 1939 Architect: William T. Benslyn & Ernest F. Tulley. 1,109 seats. Prop., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15, Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. To Star 1969-1975. Closed to film 25th April 1978. Bingo. Kwik Save supermarket. Closed c.2003. Empty.
Town Hall f., Town Clerk (1907)

MARKET RASEN Lincs
PICTURE HOUSE Chapel Street 16mm. weekly operation c.1930–45.
TOWN HALL CINEMA Market Place (Morrison) - Prop., J. F. Badley, The Terrace, Spilsby, Lincs. Phone Spilsby 5. 350 seats. Booked at H.O. Once nightly. Continuous Sat, Prices 4d. to 1s. 4d. Station, Market Rasen, also by Lincoln & District Film Transport Co. Boston.
WAVERLEY CINEMA Queen’s Street (RCA) Opened 1st June 1944 – Lost Angel. c.350 seats – one raked tier. Kalee 8s – screen 14’x12’. Closed 4th April 1964 – I’ll Take Sweden. Demolished 1971. (M. Brader)

MARKET WEIGHTON Yorks
CENTRAL HALL (AWH) - Props., J. W. Garforth & Son. 500 seats, Booked by Props. at Hall or Leeds. Shows once nightly. Mat. Sat. Occasional Variety. Prices 3d. to 1s.3d. Proscenium width 21ft. Stage, 12ft. Films by Transport. Station, Market Drayton.

MARLBOROUGH Wilts
BOUVERIE HALL Pewsey
CINEMA (Mihaly) Upavon. 500 seats
ELECTRIC PICTURE HALL High Street 1931: Miss A. Hillier, proprietress.

MARLOW-on-THAMES Bucks
ODEON / COUNTY CINEMA (WE) - Prop., Entertainments & General Investment Corporation, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cook¬ham, Berks. Continuous from 5.15p.m. Mat., Wed and Sat. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Marlow 3. Station, Marlow, G.W.R.
Music Rooms C. H. Yates (1907)
REGAL Station Road Demolished.

MARNHULL Dorset
Blackmoor Vale Lodge Room Dexter (1907)
Temperance Hall Hayter (1907)

MARPLE Cheshire
REGENT CINEMA / Shepley Hall Stockport Road J. Waine (1907) (BTH) Opened c.1932 – conversion of union rooms & three houses. Architect: R. H. Samson. Prop., Marple Cinema Co., Ltd., 19, Howard Street, Sheffield. Phone Sheffield 20062. 500 seats. 1941: Booked at H.O. and Hall. Twice nightly, Mat., Mon., Thurs, and Sat. Prices 3d. to 1s. 6d. Occa¬sional Variety. Booked through Manager at Marple. Proscenium width 18ft. Stage, 6ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Phone Marple 482. Station, Marple, L.M.S. Still open. 285 seats.

MARSDEN Yorks
ELECTRIC THEATRE Opened 1919 (RCA) - Prop. & Man., T. Leyland. 550 seats. Once nightly. Two changes weekly, Station, Marsden, L.M.S. Closed 1975.
Mechanics’ Hall W. Griffiths (1907)

MARTOCK Som
ELECTRIC THEATRE (Mihaly) - Props., Walford Pictures, Chard, Somerset. Booked at H.O. Once nightly, Sat., Bank Holidays. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 18ft.
Liberal Hall-Prop., Martock Liberal Hall Co., Ltd., Church Street, Sec., W. H, Tucker, East View, Stapleton, Martock. Hall to let for shows, etc. Rates on application to Secretary,
Public Hall W. G. Bull (1907) 1941 - Sat. Twice nightly. Travelling show S. & S. Cinemas (G. F. Bellamy).

MARYPORT Cumb
Athenaeum f., T. Skelton (1907)
CARLTON CINEMA Senhouse Street (WE) - Props., Graves Cinemas, Ltd., Athenaeum Buildings, Maryport. 750 seats. Two shows nightly. Three changes weekly, Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Maryport 43. Stations, Maryport, L.M.S.
Circus Pitch R. H. Thompson (1907)
Co-operative Hall W. Robinson (1907)
EMPIRE THEATRE Senhouse Street (WE) - Props., Graves Cinemas, Ltd., Athenaeum Buildings, Maryport. 850 seats, Booked at H.O. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly, Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Maryport, 7.
PALACE THEATRE High Street - 450 seats. Booked by Graves Cinemas, Ltd. Twine shows nightly. Two changes weekly, Phone Maryport 16. Station, Maryport, L.M.S.

MASBORO’
TIVOLI CINEMA built by Smiths of Rotherham

MASHAM Yorks
PICTUREDROME / Town Hall

MATLOCK Derbys
RITZ / CINEMA HOUSE Causeway Lane Opened December 1922. Prop. Matlock Cs. 950 seats. Sate 22’ deep, 5 dressing rooms. Café. Pictures & variety. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Matlock Cinemas, Ltd. 940 seats. Continuous Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Pictures and Variety. Proscenium width 25ft. Stage, 22ft. deep, Seven dressing-rooms, Café attached. Phone Matlock 121. Station, Matlock, L.M.S. To Star circuit 1955 & re-named. CinemaScope. Bingo stalls & circle twinned – 200, 100. To Edkey circuit. Closed c.1993/4. To Trevor Harris. Re-opened 22nd July 1994. Part nightclub/part retail.
PICTURE PALACE Dale Road Opened 22nd March 1913. Prop., Matlock Pic Pal Co. Cap. 520. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Matlock Cinemas, Ltd. 600 seats. Continuous Prices 5d. to 1s.2d. Stations Matlock, L.M.S. Closed 1960s.
VICTORIA HALL PICTUREDROME / Victoria Hall Smedley Street fl. 1912-1915. Lessee Mr. Wild. Cap. 450.

MATLOCK BATH Derbys
Baths Assembly Room W. Hall (1907)
GRAND PAVILION Opened 1910. Prop. U.D. C. 1916 lessee, R. H. Taylor. By 1932, lessee H. L. Osmond. By 1935, lessee E. C. W. Thompson. To Matlock Cs June 1936. Closed to film c.1938. By 1941: (Morrison) - 500 seats. Continuous nightly, Mat. Sat. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 23ft. Stage 37ft. deep. Five dressing-rooms. Phone Matlock 257. Station, Mat¬lock Bath, L.M.S. Films by Broxburn Transport. 1990s Music venue.
Pavilion f., Secretary (1907)

MEADOWFIELD Brandon Colliery Co. Durham
CO-OPERATIVE KINEMA / Central Hall Built 1902. 1st-floor hall. Used for dances & early films. Opened as proper cinema October 1913. Mgr., Thomas A. Young. Prop., Brandon & Byshottles Co-operative Society, Ltd. Mgr 1919 – 34 Charles Robinson. By 1941: (WE) 608 seats. Mon. continuous. Tues. to Fri. once nightly. Sat., twice nightly. Booked at Newcastle. Prices 5d. to 10d. Proscenium width 23ft. Stage, 24ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Phone Brandon Colliery 45. Station, Brandon Colliery, L.N.E.R.
Closed Sunday 16th July 1961. Projectionist Robert Swainston. Gaumont-Kalee machines and arcs.

MEASHAM Leics
EMPIRE CINEMA 1932: Sankey Bros. proprs. 1941: (AWH) -Prop., Mrs. F. R. Hunt, ‘Glenbrook,’ Gynsills Lane, Anstey. Phone Anstey 261. 350 seats. Booked by Prop. Twice nightly, Mon., Fri., Sat. Once nightly, Tues., Wed. and Thurs. Three changes weekly, Prices 8d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 40ft. Phone Measham 34. Station, Measham, L.M.S.

MELBOURNE Derbys
EMPIRE (AWH) -Prop., Mrs. F. R. Hunt. Phone Anstey 261. 225 seats. ‘Glen¬brook,’ Gynsill’s Lane, Anstey. Booked at Glenbrook, Gynsills Lane, Anstey, near Leicester. Continuous. Three changes weekly. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone 78. Station, Melbourne, L.M.S.
Public Hall f., A. J. Collyer (1907)

MELKSHAM Wilts
Free Hall W. Harris (1907)
MAXIME
PICTURE HALL High Street 1931: Melksham Pictures Ltd.: Mrs. Higgins, manageress. By 1941: (RCA) Bank Street - Prop., Melksham Pictures, Ltd., 6, Green Street, Bath. Phone Bath 3959. 450 seats. Booked at H.O. One show nightly, Three on Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Station, Melksham, G.W.R.
Town Hall C. Awdry (1907)

MELTHAM Yorks.
ALHAMBRA (Duosonic) -Prop., Fred Haigh, Bank Cottage, Melham. 600 seats. Once nightly, twice Sat. Two changes weekly. Phone Meltham 207. Station, Meltham, L.N.E.R.
Oddfellows’ Hall J. R. Carter (1907)

MELTON MOWBRAY Leics
Corn Exchange f., G. Andrews (1907)
KING’S THEATRE / Co-operative Hall King Street 1st-floor hall.
PLAZA CINEMA / PICTURE HOUSE 6 King Street Opened c.1914 - 875 seats. 1941: Booked by C. E. West at Evington Cinema, Leicester. Shows, Mon. to Sat. Evenings. Prices 5d. to 1s. Phone Melton Mowbray 251. Station, Melton Mowbray, L.M.S. Closed. Bingo. Demolished for road widening.
REGAL King Street Prop., Melton Mowbray Picture House Ltd. By 1941: (BTP) - Props., Melton Mowbray Picture House, Ltd., Allen House, Newarke Street, Leicester. 897 seats. Con¬tinuous. Mats., Tues, and Sat. Booked by C. E. West, at Evington Cinema, Leicester. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Melton Mowbray 251. Split – bingo stalls. Still open – 226 seats.

MERE Wilts
Queen Victoria Hall f., Humby (1907)

METHERINGHAM Lincs
ROYAL

MEVAGISSEY Cornwall
CINEMA (RCA) -Props., Cornwall Cinemas (Newquay) Ltd. 200 seats. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Once nightly; twice Wed. and Sat, Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 20ft. Station, St. Austell, G.W.R.
Town Hall Demolished.

MEXBORO’ Yorks
Circus Pitch Thomas Tuby (1907)
EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE (WE) - Prop., Mexboro’ Theatres, Ltd. Man, Dir., J. J. Woffenden. 1,120 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Phone Mexboro’ 108.
Exchange Assembly Rooms Secretary (1907)
MAJESTIC (WE) - Prop., Mexboro’ Theatres, Ltd. Man. Dir., J. J. Woffenden. 884 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Station, Mexboro’, L.N.E.R.
OXFORD PICTURE PALACE Market Place (BTH) - Prop., Mexboro’ Theatres, Ltd. Man, Dir., J. J. Woffenden. 500 seats. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Station, Mexboro’, L.N.E.R.
PRINCE OF WALES’S W. H. Melton (1907)
ROYAL ELECTRIC CINEMA Bank Street (BTH) - Prop. & Man., George Goodacre. 550 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Twice nightly, Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Mexboro’ 112. Station, Mexboro’, L.N.E.R. Still stands.

MIDDLEHAM Yorks
PICTURE HOUSE (AWH) - Prop. & Man., W. C. Sykes, Yoreview, Middleham. 350 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly. Dance Hall attached. Prices 6d. to 1s. 10d. Station, Leyburn, L.N.E.R.

MIDDLESBROUGH Yorks
ABC / ELITE PICTURE THEATRE Linthorpe Road/Borough Road Opened July 1923. Architect: James Forbes. Prop., Walter Bentley. 1,900 seats. To ABC December 1935. By 1941: (WE) Props. , Elite Picture Theatre (Middlesbrough) Ltd. Controlled by Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,843 seats. Continuous. Daily Mat. Café and Dancing. Phone Middlesbrough 3,400. Station, Middlesbrough, L.N.E.R. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Closed June 1964. Internal reconstruction – re-opened as ABC 27th November 1964 - Roustabout. Architect: C. J. Foster, site Peter Park. 1,203 seats. Mgr. C. S. Watson. Prices, 4s to 6s. Tripled 1974. Closed 26th February 1983. Bingo.
Blacks former John St. chapel 1907 – The Squire’s Folly.
CINEWORLD / UGC Marton Road 11 screens. Re-named mid-2005.
Cleveland Hall / Liberal Clubs Rooms J. T. Atkinson (1907) Opened as cinema 1908. Tommy Thompson’s first venue. To Thomas Ormiston circuit. To G-B March 1928. Closed 1930. Demolished for ‘bus station 1936.
Co-operative Hall T. Clerk (1907)
EMPIRE CINEMA / EMPIRE Architect: Ernest Runtz. Brill & Graydon (1907) fl. 1942 William Bastiman
FORUM Normanby
GEM PICTURE HOUSE High Street, North Ormesby (WE) – Prop., The Palladium (Hartlepools) Ltd., Palladium Buildings, Eastbourne Road, Middlesbrough. Phone Linthorpe 88156. 358 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous nightly, Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Middles¬brough 2893. Station, Cargo Fleet, L.N.E.R.
GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE Newport Road (BTH) - Props., B. & M. R. Baker, Corporation Road (Phone Middlesbrough 3833). 800 seats. Booked at Hall by A. Osborne Thom. Continuous, Daily Mat, Prices 8d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 20ft. Phone Middlesbrough 2389. Station, Middlesbrough
GAUMONT / GAUMONT PALACE / GRAND OPERA HOUSE Linthorpe Road/Southfield Road Robert Arthur (1907) Converted to cinema. To G-B March 1928. Closed June 1930. Internal re-build inc. removal of upper tier. Architects: W. E. Trent & Ernest F. Tulley. Re-opened as G.P. March 1931. 1,700 seats. Name cut to Gaumont c.1937. By 1941: (BA) - Props., Denman Picture Houses, Ltd. 1,600 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 5.30 p.m. Station, Middlesbrough. Closed 29th February 1964. Demolished. Shops/offices.
HIPPODROME Wilson Street. 1912 Thompson took over from Signor Pepi as cinema. To G-B March 1928. 2,296 seats.By 1941 (BAF) - Prop., Gaumont -British Picture Corporation, New Gallery House, Regent Street, W.1. 2,296 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Daily Mat, Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage, 75ft. wide, 35ft. deep ; eight dressing rooms, Phone Mtiddlesbrough 341511. Station, Middlesbrough, L.N.E.R. Closed 1st December 1956. Ballroom from 1959. Bingo. Closed by 1987. Re-opened as The Venue 1991.
MAJESTIC Longlands Road Opened 1946. Closed to film.
MARLBOROUGH CINEMA / Marlborough Grand Concert Hall Gilkes Street (ex-chapel) – T. Watson Smith. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Marlborough (Middlesbrough) Ltd. 1,243 seats. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Hall. Phone Middles¬brough 2221. Station, Middlesbrough, L.N.E.R.
Oddfellows’ Hall f., H. T. Tyerman (1907)
ODEON THEATRE Corporation Road Opened 25th February 1939 – It’s In The Air. Architect: W. Calder Robinson and/or Basil Herring (Harry Weedon). By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Odeon (Middlesbrough) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cook¬ham, Berks. 1,761 seats. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Phone Middlesbro’ 2888. Tripled 1974. 4th screen added 1989. Refurbished c.1999. Closed 24th June 2001. Jumpin’ Jaks nightclub. Derelict. To be demolished 2006.
Oxford Palace A. Graham (1907)
PALLADIUM Eastbourne Road, Linthorpe (WE) - Prop., Palladium (Middlesbrough) Ltd., 4, Palladium Buildings, Middlesbrough. Phone 88156. 780 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 50ft. Phone Middlesbrough 8513. Station, Middlesbrough, L.N.E.R.
PAVILION Newport Road Theatre. Converted to cinema 1913. (BA) - Prop., North of England Cinemas, Ltd. 797 seats. Booked at H.O. Two shows nightly. Prices 5d. to 8d. Proscenium width 22ft. 4 in, Phone Middlesbrough 397111. Station, Middles¬brough, L.N.E.R. Closed to film 1957. Disco. Closed by fire1973. Restored 1991 as live venue.
PAVILION Gibson Street, North Ormesby (BTH) - Prop., North Ormesby Entertainment Co., Ltd. 600 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Sat. twice nightly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Pros. width, 22ft. Two dressing-rooms. Phone Middlesbrough 2311. Station, Cargo Fleet, L.N.E.R.
REGENT
SCALA CINEMA Newport Road - (ex-chapel) Opened 17th May 1920. Prop., Solly Levy, later Walter Bentley. 800 seats. To ABC December 1935. By 1941: (BA) Prop., Scala (Middlesbrough) Ltd. 1,000 seats. Continuous nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 3d. Proscenium width 21ft. 6 in. Phone Middlesbrough 3230. Closed 22nd April 1940. Re-opened by indepndent. Closed 1957. Demolished.
Temperance Hall f., W. Bainbridge (1907)
ESSOLDO / ROYAL / THEATRE ROYAL Sussex Street (No 2) C. Imeson (1907) To Thomas Ormiston. To G-B March 1928. 1,450 seats. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Sol. Sheckman. S.S. Blyth Kinemas, Ltd., Waterloo Chambers, Bath Lane, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 1,450 seats. Booked at H.O. Twice nightly. Prices 3d. to 1s. 6d. Stage. 28ft. deep and 7 dressing-rooms, Phone Middlesbrough 3415. Station, Middlesbrough. L.N.E.R. Re-named Essoldo 1953. Closed 17th July 1961. Demolished. Housing on site.
Town Hall f., J. M. Parnaby (1907)
Victoria Hall J. Hall (1907)

MIDDLETON Lancs
Community Cheapside: Seats: 1999 Closed 31st October 2003.
Co-operative Hall Secretary (1907)
EMPIRE THEATRE / HIPPODROME Corporation Street (BTP) - Props., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd. Imperial Bldgs., Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ardwick 2226. 915 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Middleton 2834. Station, Middleton. Bingo, nightclub, closed.
PALACE Manchester Old Road (WE) - Prop., Middleton Cinemas, Ltd. 966 seats. Two shows nightly, Mon. and Sat., one rest of week. Mat. Mon., Tues., Thurs, and Sat. Prices 3d. to 9d. Phone Middleton 252, Station, Middleton, L.M.S. Closed. Demolished 2001.
PARDOE’S THEATRE W. Pardoe (1907)
PICTURE HOUSE Wood Street (BTH) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd. Booked at Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester, 650 seats. Continuous, Prices 5d. and 9d. Phone Middleton 2950. Station, Middleton, L.M.S.
VICTORY (BTH) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 659 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Middleton 2950. Station, Middleton.

MIDDLETON-in-TEESDALE Co. Durham
COSY CINEMA Middleton-in-Teesdale Kinema Co. Ltd., Horse mkt. By 1941: (AWH) - Prop. Teesdale Cinemas, Ltd., Hippodrome, Bishop Auckland. Phone 121. 400 seats. Booked at H.O. Once nightly. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Station, L.N.E.R.

MIDDLEWICH Cheshire
ALHAMBRA Wheelock Street (WE) - Prop., Sandbach Cinemas, Ltd., Palace, Sandbach, Phone Sandbach 103. Booked at H.O. Rd. Smith, mana¬ger. Two shows nightly. Prices 7d. to 1s. 5d. Phone Middlewich 18. Station, Middlewich, L.M.S.
STAR CINEMA - Prop., C. Whirehead. Head Office, Alhambra House, Middlewich. Prices 4d. to 1s. Station, Middlewich.
Town Hall f., F. Woods-Johnson (1907)

MIDHURST Sussex
CINEMA North Street (AWH) - Prop., Moderne Cinema Properties, Ltd., North Street. 380 seats. Continuous, Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Proscenium width 35ft. Booked at H.O. Café attached. Phone 381. Station, Midhurst, S.R.
ORION / TOWN HALL CINEMA Redeveloped as supermarket.
Public Hall f., C. H. Bowyer (1907)

MIDSOMER NORTON Somerset
Drill Hall f., Colour-Sergt. W. Davidson (1907)
PALLADIUM (BTH)-Props., Trueman Dicken Cinemas. Continuous. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Phone 66. Station, Midsomer Norton, G.W.R. Films by Road Transport.

MILDENHALL Suffolk
COMET North Terrace (BTP) - Props., Comet Cinema (Mildenhall) Ltd. 475 seats, Once nightly. Booked by D. F. Bostock, Ipswich. Double feature Programmes. Prices 8d. to 2s. Pros.width, 20ft. Phone 2242. Station, Mildenhall, L.N.E.R.

MILLLER’S DALE Derbys - see Tideswell.

MILLBROOK Cornwall
LYRIC / Liberal Hall Demolished 1990.
-Wed, and Sat. - Travelling show W. J. Hocking

MILLOM Cumb
Co-operative Hall f., J. Jackson Cain (1907)
County Hall E. Brown (1907)
PALLADIUM CINEMA and THEATRE St. George’s Road (WE) - Prop., M.B.C. Cinemas, Ltd., Hippodrome, Workington. Phone 194. 666 seats. Booked at H.O. by Morris Maud. Twice nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Stage 25ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Ballroom attached, Phone Millom 253. Station, Millom, L.M.S.

MILNROW Lancs
EMPIRE (WE) - Prop., Marks Circuit Cinemas, 6 St. Mary’s Gate, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 4078. 630 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous evenings. Three shows on Sat. Pictures and Variety. Proscenium width 19ft. Stage, 4ft. deep; two dressing rooms. Prices 3d. to 1s. Phone Milnrow 5308. Station, Milnrow, L.M.S. Films by Road Transport.

MILNSBRIDGE Yorks
PICTURE PALACE Savile Street (BTH) (BTH) - Prop., Milnsbridge Picture Palace, Ltd. 650 seats. Booked at Leeds. Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone 217. Station, Longwood, L.M.S.

MILTON KEYNES Bucks
CINEWORLD 16 screens / 3,450 seats
ODEON / EASYCINEMA / THE POINT Midsummer Boulevard Britain’s 1st multiplex 1985. Seats: 1:156 2:169 3:248 4:220 5:220 6:220 7:220: 8:248 9:169 10:156 EasyCinema to May 2006. Reverted to owner UCI & thus Odeon. Re-opened 19th May.

MINEHEAD Somerset
ABC / ODEON Butlin’s Holiday Camp Now 2 screens.
ARCADIA
COSY CINEMA / CENTRAL PAVILION Bancks Street Opened c.1912. 360 seats. Re-opened as Cosy 2nd August (Bank holiday) 1920. Closed 30th September 1930.
Public Hall R. E. Sticklan (1907)
QUEEN’S HALL The Strand, Sea Front (Closed Winter) Opened 1st June 1914. Architect: W. J. Tamlyn. Props., J. B. & S. B. Marley. Mgr Sam Marley. 800 seats. Prosc. 28’, 18’ deep, 46’ wide. c.1918 props., E. J. White & F. Stanley. WE installed 28th October 1930. By 1941: Props., Minehead Entertainments, Ltd., 62, Oxford Street, W.1. 750 seats. Booked at H.O. Occasional Plays. Prices 9d. to 2s. Stage and six dressing-rooms. Phone 211. Station, Minehead. SG46: Prop.: Minehead Entertainments, Ltd., Regal, Minehead. Agent: A. Freedman, 110, Bickenhall Mansions, Baker Street, London,W.1. Cap.: Stalls 510, circle 200, boxes 4. Once nightly 7.30. Matinées Wednesday and Saturday. Plays of best class. Stage: Prosc. 28ft. x 20ft., min. depth 16ft., Stage to grid 30ft., ten hemp lines. Elec. equip.: Voltage 230 A.C. Foot¬lights, two circuits. Battens two, with three circuits. Two spots on stage. One f-o-h following lime. Dressing rooms: Two and two chorus. Orchestra: Acc. eight, usually resident. During WWII used for troop concerts & canteen. Closed soon after. Now amusements.
REGAL The Avenue (WE) Opened 2nd July 1934 - Evergreen. Architect Andrew Mather. Props., Minehead Entertainments, Ltd., (A. Freedman) 62, Oxford Street, W.1. Phone Museum 5189. 1,250 seats. Booked at H.O. Occasional Variety. Prices 1s. to 1s.10d. Continuous, from 2.30p.m. Stage, 27ft. deep. Café and Ballroom attached. Phone 439. Station, Minehead. Now theatre above supermarket.
SEAFRONT CINEMA Opened 1910. Prop. E. H. Claridge. Wooden structure as cinema. Closed c.1913.

MIRFIELD Yorks
REGENT / Town Hall Dewsbury Road f., J. Parkinson (1907) By 1941: (BTH) - Lessee, G. Andsley, 539 Leeds Road Dewsbury. Continuous. Mon., to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Phone Mirfield 210. Station, Mirfield, L.M.S.
VALE CINEMA Opened 1939. Closed 1994.

MITCHAM Surrey
MAJESTIC THEATRE Upper Green (WE) Opened 1933. Architect: S. B. Pritlove. 1941 - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, W.1. 1,511 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 42ft. Stage, 16ft. deep. Two dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Mitcham 2719. Station, Mitcham, S.R. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Closed for Bingo 1961, demolished.
Vestry Hall f., R. M. Chart (1907)

MONKSEATON Northumb
ABC / CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / REGAL Cauldwell Lane West Monkseaton

MONMOUTH Mon
HIPPODROME / ALEXANDRA Old Dixton Road Demolished.
SAVOY / PICTURE HOUSE SCALA / PICTURE PALACE Church Street (Cinephone) -Props., Pro¬vincial Cinematograph Theatres, Ltd., New Gallery House, 123, Regent Street, London, W.1. 600 seats. Booked at H.O. Con¬tinuous evenings, Mat., Sat. Prices 8d. to 2s. 6d. Stage 18.ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Phone Monmouth 146. Station, Mayhill (Mon) G.W.R. Seats: 300
Rolls Hall f., C. Morgan.

MOORTHORPE nr South Emsall Yorks
EMPIRE Opened c.12th December 1912. Prop. Empire (Moorthorpe) Ltd. Man. dir. J. T. Issott. 600 seats. 1916 lessee Frederick Walker & co. Ltd. 1919: closed, rebuilt re-opened October as New Empire. Prosc. 28’, 20’ depth, full width fly tower, safety curtain, 7 dressing rooms. 1,060 seats. 1920: Prop. Walter Issott & Co. Ltd. Res. man. A. Rayner. Twice nightly Mon. & Sat. Continuous rest. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 9d. 950 seats. Licensed for music & dancing. Voltage 75. 1922: Prop. (?lessee) Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. 3d to 1s. 1930: Prop., Walker, Issott & Co., man. dir. A. Rayner. Pictures & varieties. Booked at hall. Once nightly, two on Sat. 5d to 1s. ?Sound-on-disc. 1931, renovated, redecorated with scantily-dressed chorus girls, Kalee 8 rear-shutter machines & WE sound-on-film/non-synch. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Walker, Issott & Co., Ltd. 940 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two shows on Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width, 28ft. Stage, 26ft. deep. Full-height, full-width fly tower (c.50’ to grid). Six dressing-rooms. Phone South Elmsall 71. Station, South Elmsall, L.N.E.R. CinemaScope 1957. 830 seats. Closed to film 15th October 1968. Bingo. Closed 2003. Partially demolished 2003 - housing.

MORDEN Surrey
ODEON THEATRE / KINEMA London Road (WE) - Prop., 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 1.30p.m. Stage. Two dressing-rooms. Café. Phone Mitcham 2900. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids & Stage Amplification

MORECAMBE Lancs
Albert Hall T. Baxter (1907) Showed pics from 1909 – Harry Hargreaves, who also had Lyric
ALHAMBRA PALACE Opened 1901. Ald John Gardner. To cinema. Terence Byron summer season 1946.
APOLLO 4 Central Drive: 4 screens
ARCADIAN Promenade Demolished 2003.
Central Pier E. Hill (1907)
CLASSIC / ODEON THEATRE Euston Road/Thornton Road (BTH) Opened 2nd September 1937 – It’s A Grand Old World. Architect: W. Calder Robson (Harry Weedon) 1,560 seats. By 1941 -Prop., Odeon (Morecambe) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Continuous. Mats., daily. Phone Morecombe 1104. To Classic December 1967. Closed 28th February 1976 – Carry On Behind. DIY shop.
CLASSIC Victoria Street
Devonshire Hall J. H. Walker (1907)
EMPIRE The Promenade Demolished.
LYRIC Harry Hargreaves c.1910
MORECAMBE TOWER (BA) - Prop., Denman Picture Houses, Ltd., New Gallery House, Regent Street, London, W.1. 2,000 seats. Pictures, Musical Comedies and Variety. Booked at H.O. Open Sunday Evenings. Phone Morecambe 116. Café and Dance Hall attached. Station, Morecambe (Euston Road) L.M.S.
NEW PLAZA CINEMA (WE) New Queen Street - Lessee, W. Shaw, Senr., for Morecambe Amusements Co., Ltd., Astoria Cinema, Morecambe. Phone Morecambe 248. 922 seats. Continuous in summer season. Oct. to June, once nightly. Mat., Mon., Wed., and Sat. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Booked at Manchester and Liverpool. Proscenium width 21ft. Phone Morecambe 408. Station, Morecambe L.M.S.
PALACE THEATRE Sandylands Promenade (WE)
PALLADIUM Victoria Street (BTH)-Prop., Palladium (Morecambe) Ltd. 1,047 seats. Booked at Hall. One show nightly in winter. Continuous in summer. Prices 7d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Morecambe 108. Station, Morecambe, L.M.S.
REX Knaresborough Rd
ROYALTY THEATRE Julian Malvern (1907) SG46: Prop. : Morecambe Royalty Theatre Co., Ltd., Market Street, Morecambe & Heysham, Lancs. Cap.: Stalls 155, P. stalls 217, D. circle 166, U. circle 110, gallery 200. Once nightly 7. Matinées Wednesday. Repertory. Stage: Pros. 24ft., height 32ft., min. depth from setting line 17ft., height under fly galleries 20ft., width between fly galleries 31ft., height of grid from stage 42ft. No counterweight equipment. r. 33 hemp lines. Revolving stage. Elec. equip.: 230 v. A.C., 50 cycles. Footlights, three circuits with ind. dimmers. Four battens with three circuits with ind. dimmers. Spot bar with two spots each ind. dimmer controlled. Two spots on stands. Two floods on stands. Dressing rooms: Six single, two chorus. Band room. Orchestra : Acc. 12. Resi¬dent five.
West End Pier J. Porter (1907)
WHITEHALL PICTURE HOUSE (BTH) Marine Road-Prop., Morecambe Bay Cinemas, Ltd. 916 seats. Booked at Manchester and Liver¬pool. Continuous, summer. Once nightly rest of year. Prices 7d. to 1s. 10d. Pro¬scenium width 20ft. Phone Morecambe 224. Stations, Morecambe (Euston Road & Promenade) L.M.S. & Film Transport Auto.
WINTER GARDENS / KING’S PAVILION / VICTORIA PAVILION / PEOPLE’S PALACE & AQUARIUM Opened 1878. 1896 sold by W. Morgan to T. Baxter & R.B. Abbot - West End Pier Co. Rebuilt as Vic Pav. 1897. Architect: Mangnall & Littlewood, consultant Frank Matcham. Lessee: W. Holland (1907). March 1909 to William Henry Broadhead. Enlarged to 3,000 as K’s Pav. Post-1918, pictures winter, variety Summer. 1933 sold. Chairman Harry Smirk. Re-opened 26th March 1934. By 1941: (PTA) - 3,000 seats. Once nightly. Prices 6d. to 2s.6d. Phone Morecambe 8. Stations, Euston Road & Promenade, L.M.S. To Moss’ Empires 1953 (£146,000). Leased to Trust House Forte (Leisure). Closed September 1977. 1987 listed Grade II. 1990 to Fred Edmondson.1992 listing upgraded. October 1996 restoration begun. 1998: exterior restoration work completed. 2003: To Barnfield Construction, Nelson.

MORETON Cheshire
Mann Institute Miss R. Horne (1907)
PICTURE HOUSE Pasture Road (BTH) - Prop., S.M. Super Cinemas, Ltd., 37/38, Golden Square, W.1. 800 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Phone Upton 22. Station, Moreton, L.M.S.
Redesdale Hall f., J. Kennedy (1907)
Swan As¬sembly Rooms F. Baguley (1907)

MORETON-in-MARSH Glos
PLAYHOUSE Church Street Prop., Playhouse (Moreton-in Marsh) Ltd. Pictures and occasional Variety. Films booked at Plaza, Amesbury. Phone Amesbury 354. Continuous nightly. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Stage, 12ft. deep. Two dressing-rooms. Phone 73. Station, Moreton-in-Marsh, G.W.R.

MORETONHAMPSTED Devon
REX Wartime adaptation? Galvanised corrugated iron.
CAMP CINEMA R.A.F. Harrowbeer

MORLEY Yorks
Alexander Hall (1907)
Co-operative Hall f., Secretary (1907)
King’s Hall (1907)
NEW PAVILION South Queen Street Opened 1911. By 1941: (WE)-Prop., Picture House (Morley) Ltd. Phone 232. 800 seats. Booked at Sec’s Office, G. Hylton, A.C.A., 10 East Parade, Leeds. Continuous. Twice nightly Sats. Prices 8d. and 1s. Stage and four dressing-rooms. Phone 218. Station, Morley, L.N.E.R. Bingo since 1968. Empty. Café / Restaurant.
ODEON THEATRE-Props., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks (under Construction). Scheme not proceeded with.
PICTURE HOUSE Queen Street (BTH) - Prop., Picture House (Morley) Ltd. 998 seats. Booked at Sec’s Office, G. Hylton, ACA., 10 East Parade, Leeds. Continuous. Sats. twice nightly. Prices 8d. and 1s. Phone Morley 232. Station, Morley, L.N.E.R.
Temperance Hall S. Rhodes (1907)

MORPETH Northumb
CINEMA Seahouses (AWH) -400 seats
Circus Pitch Borough Surveyor (1907)
COLISEUM THEATRE North Road Opened 1926. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Stanley Rogers Cinemas, Ltd., 147/9, Northumberland Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Phone Newcastle 20317. 1,100 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 26ft. Stage 23ft. deep; eight dressing rooms. Café. Phone Morpeth 192. Station, Morpeth. Bingo for a time. Now ‘M2’ nightclub.
JUBILEE HALL Rothbury
Masonic Hall f., J. J. James (1907)
MINERS HALL Station Road Pegswood (AWH) -Props., Pegswood Miners Welfare Committee. 450 seats. One show nightly. Booked at Hall. Proscenium width 20ft. Prices 6d. and 9d. Station, Pegswood. Film Transport.
Miner’s Welfare Institute, Linton
PI.AYHOUSE (WE) -Booked at Wallaw Buildings, Ashington, Northumberland. 1,000 Seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Morpeth 124. Station, Morpeth. Closed 1961, supermarket.
RED ROW PICTURE HALL (AWH)-Props., Thos. Gibson & John W. Young. 417 seats. Prices 8d. and 10d. Continuous. Tues. to Fri., two shows Mon. and Sat; one show Sun. Booked at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Phone Amble 34. Station, Acklington.
Town Hall G. Bowmaker (1907)

MOSSLEY Lancs
Co-operative Hall Secretary (1907)
EMPIRE CINEMA Apsley Gar¬dens (Picturetone) - Lessees, C. A. Wilkinson & R. Plummer. 600 seats. Once nightly. Twice nightly Sat. Mat., Mon. and Sat. Booked at Manchester. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. Phone Mossley 78. Station, Mossley L.M.S.
Liberal Hall James Park (1907)
Mechanics’ Institute E, Thompson (1907)
ROYAL PAVILION (Picturetone)-Lessees, C. A. Wilkinson & Downs, Apsley House, Mossley. 600 seats. Booked at Manchester. One show nightly. Mats., Tues. and Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. Station, Mossley.

MOTTRAM Cheshire
SAVOY THEATRE (AWH) –Lessee/Prop., Wilbraham G. Stansfield. 500 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly. Twice Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Mottram 356. Station, Broadhottom.

MOUNTSORREL Leics
ROCK CINEMA & Dance Hall Leicester Road (Gyrotone) - Props., G. G. Baum & J. Fisher. 290 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly, Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Prices 5d. to 1s. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Rothley 164. Station, Sileby, L.M.S. Closed. Now printing works.

MUCH WENLOCK Salop
Corn Ex¬change f., A. Owen (1907)
MEMORIAL HALL - Prop., F. Taylor, 1, High Street 200 seats. Three performances two nights weekly. Booked at 1 High Street. Prices 5d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Much Wenlock 260. Station, Much Wenlock, G.W.R. Once a cinema, now a museum.

MURTON COLLIERY Co. Durham
EMPIRE Woods Terrace Opened 22nd November 1912. 1929: Sydney Chicken, manager & sec. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Murton Empire Picture Co., Ltd. 620 seats. Booked at Newcastle¬-on-Tyne. Two shows nightly. Prices 6d. and 9d. Phone Murton 11. Station, Murton Junction, L.N.E.R.
OLYMPIA off Church Street Opened September 1910. Licensed for pictures & variety. Prop., J. Gibb. By 1941: (AWH) - Prop., Murton Empire Pic¬ture Co., Ltd. 1929: Sydney Chicken, sec. 400 seats. Booked at New¬castle-on-Tyne. Twice nightly, Mon. and Sat Once nightly rest of week. Prices 6d. and 9d. Phone Morton 11. Station, Morton Junction L.N.E.R.
REX Knaresborough Rd

MYTHOLMROYD
Oddfellows’ Hall G. Sainsbury (1907)

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NAILSWORTH Glos
PUBLIC HAI.L CINEMA (Morrison) -Lessee, W. J. Beach. One show nightly. Two on Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone No. 69. Station, Nailsworth, L.M.S.
Subscription Rooms f., W. J. Pearse (1907)

NANTWICH Cheshire
COSY CINEMA / COSY SUPER CINEMA / NEW PICTUREDROME Opened 1912 - converted from Ebenezer chapel. Prop. Norton’s Pictures. Cosy 23rd December 1920. Taken over by T. E. Markham. Pros width 16ft. 550 seats (TMC). 1928 4d, 6d, 1s. Booked @ Old Wyche by prop. Closed by 1937. Re-opened as Cosy Super Cinema by 1940. 6d to 1/6d. 400 seats. By 1941: Prop., T. E. Markham, Ye Olde Wyche Cinema, Nantwich. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. 400 seats. Booked at Nantwich. Phone 5338. Station, Nantwich, L.M.S. Nightclub. To Southan Morris circuit by 1948. Closed 1st April 1950 – Yankee Fakir. Supposedly building sold to Essoldo circuit in 1954 with Regal, but stayed closed. Now nightclub.
REGAL / YE OLDE WYCHE SUPER CINEMA / YE OLDE WYCHE THEATRE Churchyard side/Market Place Opened Monday 11th October 1920 – Broken Blossoms. (plaque above entrance gives 1919) Prop. T. E. Markham. Res. man. S. Weaver. Two shows nightly. 2 changes weekly. 5d – 1/6. Seating 1400. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 70. 1922: man. J. Weaver. Wycombe 6d – 2s. 1924: Wyche. Markham prop & man 5d – 1/6. 1928: Bked @ hall. Pictures, variety & stage plays. Proscenium width: 25 ft., stage 20ft deep. Café attached. Tel 38. 4d to 1/6d. Installed B.T-H. sound system 1934: Continuous. 7d – 1/6d. Tel 5538. 1935 – 900 seats c.1936 sound changed to WE 6d to 1/6. Super Cinema by 1939 - Mrs. I. M. Lyons, manageress. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., T. E. Markham. 1,100 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 9d. Proscenium width 25ft. Phone Nantwicb 5338. Station, Nantwich, L.M.S. Circuit sold to W. Southan Morris circuit, renamed Regal by 1945. To Essoldo 1954. Closed: Saturday 17th September 1966 - Born Free. Auditorium demolished. Frontage and dressing rooms intact. Office & works.
TOWN HALL CINEMA / Town Hall High Street f., S. Williamson (1907) Early picture shows. KYB 1920: Prop T. E. Markham. res man. J. Weaver. Two shows Mon & Sat: one on other days. Two changes weekly. Prices: 2½d – 11d. Seating 700. Licensed for music and dancing. Voltage 70. Probably closed on opening of Old Wyche.

NELSON Lancs
ALHAMBRA THEATRE / ALHAMBRA CINEMA / Variety Hall / Brown’s North St Baths North Street Opened 1886. Prop. Joseph Brown. Bath boarded over in winter to form hall. Opened to film 1906. Electrograph Animated Pictures. ‘Certified Operator– C. S. D. Dickinson’. 1908 – bath closed re-named Alham. Closed as cinema Saturday 2nd January 1926. Cleaned & re-decorated. Re-opened as variety theatre Monday 11th January 1926. Mgr Charles Gaston. Once nightly, twice on Sat. Prices 6d, 9d, 1s. Closed June 1926. Stage added, re-decorated. Re-opened as New Alham. 2nd August 1926. C.P. & variety. By 1941: Prop., Brown, Ltd. 600 seats. One show nightly. Three Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 4d. to 6d. Proscenium width 20ft. Stage 14ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Phone 950. Station, Nelson. Closed 5th May 1957 – Ten Tall Men. Mgr. John Rushton. Leather works.
CAPITOL / TIVOLI THEATRE / CINEMA HOUSE / NEW CINEMA Seldon Street, Leeds Road Opened Saturday 23rd August 1913. Prop., Sam Lyons. January 1922 re-named. Prop. Victory Theatres Circuit (Arthur Peel). Closed 3rd July 1926 – Boomerang Justice and A Cloudy Romance. Re-opened as Tiv. C.P. Th. 2nd August 1926 – Autumn Follies. Once nightly, twice Sat. Prices, 6d, 9d, 1s. Rep. from December 1926. Talkies from 9th November 1931 – Cinephone; 1932 WE. Re-named Cap. 7th September 1935. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Tivoli Theatre (Nelson) Ltd. 600 seats. Booked at Victory Theatres, Ltd., Accrington. Once nightly. Three shows Sat. Prices 6d. to 10½d. Stage 25ft. deep. Three dressing-rooms. Phone 515. Station, Nelson, L.M.S. Marina May – September 1948. 1954 427 seats. Closed 3rd April 1955 – Clash by Night.
GRAND THEATRE of Varieties / GRAND THEATRE Nelson (later Market) Street Opened 23rd January 1888 – The Silver King. 1890 lessee John Barker. 1891, sold to Astley, lessee Croft. 1899 alterations. G. E. Mudd (1907) – Business mgr. Lessee Mrs T. Greenwood Croft. Closed 5th June 1909. Altered. Re-opened 2nd August - Pics. & Var. Re-opened 17th December1909 - W. C. Horner. WE Talkies Monday 10th March 1930 – The Broadway Melody. To Herbert Hartley 1923, internally altered – gallery removed. Re-opened as Grand Cinema Saturday 19th January 1924 – If Winter Comes. 6d, 9d & 1s. By 1941: (WE) Prop., Hartley Cinemas, Ltd., Palace Theatre, Leeds Road, Nelson. Phone 278. 1,502 seats. Booked at H.O. and Manchester. Once nightly. Twice nightly Sat. Daily Mat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 31ft. Phone Nelson, 566. Station, Nelson, L.M.S. 21-year lease to Star 1960. Mgr Lew Askew. 21-year lease to Star 1960. Mgr. Lew Askew. By 1964 mgr. R. Hellawell. Closed full-time Saturday 18th May 1974 – Not Now Darling. Sunday Pakistani films. To Dennis Geldhard 28th March 1981 – Moonraker. To Unit 4 later 1981. Closed October 1986 for a few months. Re-opened by Unit 4. To Apollo 1989. Closed 11th January 1994 – Robin Hood – Men In Tights. Demolished 2001.
MAJESTIC THEATRE Scotland Road Opened Saturday 30th November 1925 – The Arab and His Hour. Rebuilt from Electric. Architect: R. Jacques. Prices, 6d, 9d, 1s, 1/6d. 1,134 seats. Once nightly, twice on Sat. WE Talkies 19th March 1930 – Hollywood Revue. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Victory Theatres, Ltd. Booked at H.O. Edgar Street, Accrington. Phone Accrington 2,701. 1,100 seats. Three shows daily. Prices 8d. to 1s. 9d. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Nelson 334, Station, Nelson, L.M.S. Closed Sunday 2nd July 1961 – Cinderfella and The Paleface. Mgr. Harold Lister. Victory Theatres Circuit wound up. Demolished for Marsden Building Soc. H.Q.
New ELECTRIC PALACE & CONCERT HALL Russell Street Opened 17th December 1910 – 1st-floor hall. Prop. Herbert Hartley. Prices, 3d to 9d. To Arthur Peel November 1918. Closed May 1925. ‘Entirely gutted, remodelled, and enlarged’ as Majestic. <