Description:The front of the Broadway Cinema in 1954. "Sign Of the Pagan" is showing starring Jack Palance as Attila The Hun. Two shillings and four pence would have got you a seat on the balcony!
Local resident Margaret Millard said: "I don't remember The Broadway showing popular modern films of the day. We usually went to the Bristol or Scala".
It stood on the corner of Wrentham Street and Bristol Street and was designed by Harold Seymore Scott. It was opened at the beginning of 1912 and was called the Electric Picture House. In 1923 it was renamed The Broadway to a redesign by Horace G. Bradley who added sliding doors for ventilation. In 1956 it was rebuilt, this time to the design of H. Werrner Rosenthal, to become a 623 seat Cinephone and the first cinema to specialise in continental films. In 1977 the cinema closed for a while before opening for a short while as the Gala. It later became the Climax Cinema, finally closing it’s doors in the early 1980s. The building was briefly used for promotional work during the Superprix.