Four films on this week, Charlie Chaplin in The Pilgrim, an all start cast in The Old Oaken Bucket, Alma Rubens in Find the Woman, and Douglas Maclean in Bell Boy 13.
Picture showing original rows of seats still in place but in a dirty condition.
The main centre stairs which were used as the main entrance to No1 screen can still be seen at the bottom of the picture.
Taken when I was granted access to the old ABC picture house in the centre of Halifax, The then owner had to make a route up to this vantage point which had been boarded away.
The screen was said to be still in the building somewhere but has never…
This started as the Ritz Cinema in 1937. The cinema closed in 1963 but reopened as a bingo hall in 1965. The venue was then bought and renovated as a dance hall in 1981 before being taken over again in 1987 by a couple who had it for 27 years. Glen…
The Royal Electric Theatre' on New Road opened in 1913 on what is now the Memorial Gardens. It ceased as a cinema June 24th 1921 when the present day Picture House opened.