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Another Basingstoke Review
The BKSTS Cinema Technology Magazine- by Jim Slater
I was pleased to receive as an early Christmas present a copy of an interesting book by Mervyn Gould, one of a series published by the Mercia Cinema Society, which was founded in 1980 to promote and publish research into the history of picture houses.
Basingstoke
Entertained
A History of Cinema [...]
Another Basingstoke review
BASINGSTOKE ENTERTAINED
Mervyn Gould
Mercia Cinema Society, 2007
Paperback, 98pp., £8.95
ISBN 10: 0-946406-62-6
Since Basingstoke has never had a purpose built theatre this book, perhaps naturally, centres on the history its cinemas. However there is a record of plenty of live entertainment within its pages and its author, long time SMA member, Mervyn Gould, in his fourth book (and [...]
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 [...]
Basingstoke Entertained
PUBLISHED 1st December:
Basingstoke Entertained – Mervyn Gould
86pp + prelims & index
£8.95 / £7.90 to members
NOW AVAILABLE ***READ PRESS RELEASE***
LATEST PUBLICATION: Basingstoke Entertained by Mervyn Gould, £8.95/£7.90 Mercia Members *(updated)*
PRESS RELEASE
New books charts Basingstoke’s chequered cinema [...]
Astorias!
Mercia Bioscope No. 26
– special edition –
THE PARAMOUNT ASTORIAS
David Jones
This booklet traces the building and history of the four LONDON ASTORIA
Cinemas – the Brixton Astoria, the Old Kent Road Astoria, the Finsbury Park
Astoria and the Streatham Astoria.
[...]
The Picture Man
OBITUARY- Arthur Ernest Northover
Arthur Northover, mobile cinema owner and author, died, aged 81, on Tuesday 1st February 2005. A Northamptonian by birth and up-bringing, he had lived [...]