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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]
The Palace Theater and the Majestic Theater are a pair of historic performance and film venues at 1315-1357 Main Street in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut. Built in 1921-22 by Sylvester Z. Poli in a single building that also housed a hotel, they were in their heyday a posh and opulent sight, designed by noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb .
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.
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 ...
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Owen became a patron of the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich, Essex, and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the historic building. [20] [21] [22] Owen is a supporter of Liverpool FC [23] and narrated the fly on the wall documentary series Being: Liverpool. [24]
– King Kong memorabilia, including a 1930s foyer life-size model of Mr Kong, from the Electric Palace Cinema in Bridport, Dorset. £500 – memorabilia of Lieutenant Edward Arthur Maund, African explorer. He competed against and later worked with Cecil Rhodes for mining concessions in Matabeleland and Mashonaland. £2,000