Archive for June, 2009
Our three new Committee Members
taking on the tasks of raising Mercia’s profile and increasing our moribund book sales are three new committee members, appointed at a meeting in March
Lifting the threat of having to frame a closure motion for the next AGM to consider, the three offered their services, not only as way of averting close-down, but in a [...]
Postage and packing…and Paypal
The Committee have recently taken the decision to introduce postage and packing charges on all new publications, commencing with Cinemas of North Tyneside.
Publishing high quality research into Cinema history is the prime charitable aim of the Mercia Cinema Society. The society needs to strike a careful balance between the size of print run and the [...]
Cinemas of North Tyneside now available
Members price £10.95 plus £1.20 UK Postage and packing (Enter membership number to qualify)
Membership number:
Non-member’s price £12.95 + £1.20 P&P
PRESS RELEASE from Kate Taylor
Issued : June 2009 01924-372748 kate@airtime.co.uk
North Tyneside’s 35 picture houses recalled in comprehensive history
Well-known local historian writes fourth book [...]
Two Coventry reviews
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From the Coventry Evening Telegraph:
Gil Robottom’s history of Coventry cinemas
Jun 5 2009 By Jane Stirland
“GIL ROBOTTOM spent 25 years researching the history of Coventry’s cinemas, but died suddenly before his work could be published.
Determined that his efforts should not be in vain, his grieving widow, Lynne, collected all [...]
2008 Mercia AGM Minutes now online
MERCIA CINEMA SOCIETY
MINUTES of the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2008
held at the Tyneside Film Theatre Newcastle-on-Tyne Saturday 13 December at 1.45
1 Chairman’s welcome : Miss Taylor welcomed all present, and as there were members who were attending for the first time, introduced herself and those members of the committee present. She then checked the quorum.
2 [...]
June Gallery- Cinema in Braintree
from Mercia Bioscope no. 94 February 2005
CINEMA IN BRAINTREE
Richard Cooper
When I first came to live in the Essex town of Braintree, it was a relatively small community that boasted little more than a quaint High Street with a couple of supermarkets, a number of pubs and a twice-weekly market. Already struggling for survival by the [...]