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The former cinema, in 2021. The Electric Cinema was the first purpose-built cinema in the city of York, in England.It is a Grade II listed building. [1]Early films were screened in various temporary locations in York, and in 1908, the New Street Wesleyan Chapel was converted into the Hippodrome Cinema.
The Electric Palace Cinema has occupied its existing site since 1926. It closed down in 1999 but an ensuing campaign to 'Save the Palace' resulted in the building being listed before being bought by a new owner and refurbished to include a digital projector, auditorium murals, a new restaurant and art deco bar. [48]
Electric Cinema, York, 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 Creative ...
The Electric Palace in 1912. In the early years of the 20th century the travelling fairground Showman Charles Thurston was touring East Anglia with his Bioscope shows. [6] Such travelling 'moving picture' shows were common at the time, but with the introduction of the Cinematograph Act 1909, which imposed strict fire prevention regulations on any venue in which films were shown to the public ...
Bridport Arts Centre is an arts centre in Bridport, Dorset, England. Founded in 1973, it is housed in and around a 19th-century, Grade II listed building, formerly known as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The complex includes the Marlow Theatre, the Allsop Gallery and a cinema. The centre runs the Bridport Prize, an international literary ...
It was later renamed the Electric Palace, but it closed as a cinema in 1927. [ 14 ] Meanwhile, the urban district council relocated to the former home of William Penn at Basing House, on the north side of the High Street in 1930.
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich, designed by Hooper in 1911. Harold Ridley Hooper (1886, Bury St Edmunds – 1953) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an English architect based in Ipswich, Suffolk . He was elected ARIBA in 1910, having been articled to John Shewell Corder , [ 1 ] and started his own practice in Ipswich in 1912.
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