Broadway Cinema
The West End Brewery owned by George Hemming & Sons stood at the corner of Wrentham Street in 1889. It was on this site in September 1911 that building began on a cinema. Designed by Harold Seymore Scott ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Gala Cinema
The Gala Cinema in 1979. Showing is "Flesh Gordon" with "Shivers" on the following week. It had been open as The Gala since 1977 but will always be best remembered as The Broadway and to a lesser extent ...
Gala Cinema, Bristol Street, Lee Bank
When the photograph was taken in around 1980 this cinema in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, was called the Gala Cinema but this was only one of several names it had over the years. The original building having ...
The Broadway
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 ...
The Gala
Famously known as The Broadway Cinema for most of its life it was in the seventies known as The Cinephone and in the eighties as The Gala. Showing on this day was "Bambi", probably one of the summer re-runs ...