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Gazetteer
as early as the mid 1920s and run by A E Hamblin. It was used for
various entertainments and still owned by Independent Order of
Oddfellows. In 1933 the building was taken over for full time
cinema and renamed Regal. The operator was Albert George
Tomkin, but within a year he sold to Dawson Hele Knight. The
seating capacity was 208. The proscenium width was 14' and a
screen 9' by 7' and appears to have gone over to sound very late
with GB Duosonic. Transferred to Phillip Taylor on 21st September
1937, then to Roseland Halls Ltd probably still run by Mr Taylor and a
20' by 9' CinemaScope screen was added and the cinema closed in
1978. It then became the Little Puppet Theatre until it was
converted into a restaurant as it remains today.
