formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
A long-awaited cinema will open in Southport town centre later this year. Plans to open the Southport Bijou Cinema first became reality for film-lover Michael Lockwood when he bought an empty restaurant building three years ago and set about recruiting … Continued
A couple who transformed part of an 18th century coaching inn into one of the UK’s smallest cinemas have admitted they aren’t even film buffs. David Maclay, 72, and Juliet Maclay, 61, bought the old Red Lion pub in Axbridge, … Continued
A Perthshire town’s old Art Deco cinema could be saved from the wrecking ball. Developers secured planning consent to tear down the former Regal picture house in Auchterarder, despite a plea from cinema historians who described it as a “rare” … Continued
In the 1930s, when Tooting was mostly farms, a grand cinema was built, and it’s still there today, and still open to the public. This the Granda Tooting, the only Grade I listed cinema from the 1930s in the UK, … Continued
Of all the striking examples of modern architecture that sprung up across the British Isles during the 1930s, the cinema must surely be considered to have had the greatest impact. A new hardback photobook charting the history and fate of … Continued
People are being asked for their views on Neath Port Talbot Council’s plans to give a new lease of life to the art-deco former Plaza Cinema building in Port Talbot’s town centre. The Council has commissioned Asbri Planning Ltd to … Continued