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George Biles (1 July 1900 – 7 December 1987) [1] was a British sign painter and lettering artist who worked in Bridport, Dorset, in South West England. [2] [3] Biles ran a signpainting business in Bridport from 1924 to a few days before his death aged 87, and painted a large number of pub signs, murals, theatre backcloths, charters and other work.
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 ...
Bridport is a market town ... The Electric Palace Cinema has occupied its existing site since 1926. ... Bridport and the surrounding area was used to film Hugh ...
The film's world premiere was held on 5 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival [30] while its UK premiere was held in London's Leicester Square on 3 March, [31] [32] though the film was shown in the small market town of Bridport, Dorset two days before this on 1 March 2009 [33] in the Electric Palace Theatre, of which ...
Workers clear up bomb damage in front of the Scala Cinema during the Manchester Blitz, October 1940. The cinema is thought to have opened around 1912 as The Scala. [1] A company called The Scala Electric Palace (Withington) Ltd was registered in 1912, [4] and in the 1914 Yearbook of Kinematograph Weekly the cinema is listed as having opened in January 1913 as The Scala Picturedrome. [5]
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 .
– 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