The Gould Gazetteer- Q
QUEENBOROUGH Kent
ACE / QUEEN’S CINEMA / ROYAL PICTUREDOME High Street Opened 1912 – front, conversion of Georgian House. Fire 29th May 1918. Rebuilt – architect: Marshall Harvey. Reopened 15th November 1920 as Queen’s. 723 seats. Closed April 1936. Bought/re-opened October H. W. Grose. 1937 prop., A. Barnard. By 1941: (AWH) – Prop., Queenboro’ Cinema Co. 510 seats. Booked at Hall. Once nightly. Sat. continuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 20ft, Phone Sheerness 255. Station, Queenborough, S.R. (Closed.) Bought during WWII by Charles Crathorn re-opened, re-named Ace. Closed c.1954. Demolished for house.
QUEENSBURY Middx
ESSOLDO / PLAZA Beverley Drive – Prop., Plaza (Queensbury). Ltd., 8 Clarges Street, London W.1. Phone Mayfair 8961.
QUEENSBURY Yorks
HALL OF FREEDOM / Hall of Freedom S. Binns (1907) 1922 – Prop., Hall of Freedom Picture Co., Ltd. Res. Man., A. Gardner. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices, 3d. to 9d. Phone, Thornton 138. Station, Queensbury, G.N.R.
VICTORIA HALL / Victoria Hall f., F. P. Rushworth (1907) 1922 KYB. By 1941: (BA) – Lessee, Greengates Cinema Co., Ltd. Phone Idle 288. 470 seats. Booked at Leeds. Once nightly. Mat, and two shows Sat. Prices 5d. to 1s. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Queensbury 2124. Films by Carrier from Leeds.
QUINTON West Mids
REEL / ODEON / ABC / CANNON / CLASSIC / ESSOLDO / DANILO Hagley Road West (RCA) Opened Bank Holiday Monday, 7th August 1939 - Charlie Chan in Honolulu and Always in Trouble. Prop., Danilo circuit (Mortimer Dent). Architect: Ernest Roberts (orig plan by Andrew Mather). Prices 6d, 1/-, and 1/6. Café attached. To SM Super Cinemas 1946. To Essoldo with circuit 29th October 1954, re-named 1957. To Classic with circuit 31st March 1972 & re-named April. Tripled July 26th 1973 – screen 1 Cabaret; screen 2 The Ten Commandments; and screen 3 The Sound of Music. Boxing Day 1978 fourth auditorium added – Watership Down. Café closed 1979. Mgr. 1984 Michael Jackson. May 1986 to Cannon, structurally altered, refurbished & re-named. To ABC & re-named. To Odeon & re-named. To Ward Anderson late 2005 as part of OFT requirement following Odeon/UCI merger. March 2006 to Reel Cinemas, Loughborough. Closed & demolished 2008.
on July 31, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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This cinema was not demolished in 2008 March, in fact it is celebrating 70 years of cinematic service on 7th August 2009 and still going strong.