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Research request for help, Percival/Patel
I am researching Francis Rustomjee Patel, who was better known by his professional name Frank Percival.
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Forthcoming Coventry book
Mercia’s next publication -
The PICTURE PALACES of COVENTRY
will be at the printer shortly
Gil Robottom’s history – very fully illustrated with plans, programmes, and photographs of the buildings
After-piece bringing the story up-to-date by Ian Meyrick – author of Oxfordshire Cinemas. Over 170 pages. Fully indexed.
Laminated card colour cover. As soon as details of price and availability [...]
You have been warned…
August Gallery- Preserved Bioscope Box, Gaiety Theatre, Douglas
The Gaiety originally opened in 1900 as a theatre and was subsequently equipped for projection by the provision of a fireproof Bioscope Box at the rear of the Ampitheatre, the rear part of the upper circle. This space continued essentially untouched for nearly seventy years, mostly used as a dumping ground for obsolete equipment once [...]