Archive for January, 2008
Raising the Tooting Wurlitzer
The Granada Tooting was opened in 1931 to much fanfare and is regarded by many as the most opulent Cinema in Britain. It has a striking exterior tower enlivening an otherwise non-descript south London suburb but it is the gothic interior that takes the breath away. The icing on the cake was the provision of [...]
December Gallery
Photographs from the 2007 AGM, held at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, by courtesy of the General Manager, Graham Sykes.
Photos by Mervyn Gould.
Committee members (Left to Right)- Ian Grey (Treasurer/Webmaster), Paul Smith (Bioscope Editor) Frank Wright, Frank Manders, Kate Taylor (Chairman).
Annual General Meeting Minutes
MERCIA CINEMA SOCIETY
MINUTES of the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007
held at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre on Saturday 1 December at 1.15
Book Reviews
BASINGSTOKE ENTERTAINED Mervyn Gould, Mercia Cinema Society, 2007
Jeremy Buck – CTA Bulletin Jan/Feb 2008
This new publication from the Mercia Cinema Society is a comprehensive review of the theatres and cinemas in this Hampshire town. Basingstoke has never had a purpose-built [...]
Bioscope 106 Imminent
(Update- now despatched)
The February 2008 edition of Mercia Bioscope has now been proofed and approved for the printer.
106 contents -
Older News
NEWS
January 17th 2008
The Mercia Cinema Society Website was successfully moved to a new hosting provider recently. As well as generous storage and bandwidth capacity, the opportunity has been taken to introduce [...]