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Electric Cinema, York, a former ... a former cinema in York, in England This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 22:54 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
View of Hastings Old Town from the East Hill. Hastings Old Town is an area in Hastings, England, roughly corresponding to the extent of the town prior to the nineteenth century. It lies mainly within the easternmost valley of the current town. The shingle beach known as The Stade (the old Saxon term meaning "landing place") is home to the ...
There is a small four screen Odeon cinema in the town, located opposite the town hall; however, there are plans to build a new multiplex cinema as part of the Priory Quarter development in the town centre. The town has an independent cinema called the Electric Palace located in the Old Town and a restored cinema in St Leonards called the Kino ...
Swindon Arts Centre is a 212-seat entertainment venue in the Old Town area of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. [1] It opened in 1956. The Swindon Arts Centre is at the heart of Swindon's Old Town, on Devizes Road. The venue hosts a varied programme of entertainment all year round, made up of both professional and amateur productions.
He is best known for renovating and owning The Electric cinema in Birmingham, England, the oldest known working cinema in the United Kingdom. Lawes composed the soundtrack for the BBC television series All Quiet on the Preston Front (1994–1997), co-directed the 1998 film Demagogue , and directed the 2011 documentary film The Last Projectionist .
The Electric closed, however, on 12 December 2003. [9] The cinema was put up for sale and was quickly purchased by local film director and producer Tom Lawes. [7] After a £250,000 refit and renovation, the cinema reopened on 17 December 2004. The building was restored to its 1930s Art Deco look from photographs taken during that period.
ABC Cinemas was established in 1927 by solicitor John Maxwell [1] by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Pictures Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926.
121 All Saints Street Hastings is a Grade II listed building [1] in the Conservation Area of Hastings Old Town, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1648, is timber-frame, jettying to the front and side, and with a dragon beam, and bears the crest of Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet. [2] It is one of the best preserved half-timbered houses in Hastings.