Cornwall Cinema Gazetteer

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Town Hall

Operated by A E Hamblin as a part-time cinema from the 1920s in the Market Place and in the 1930s by Will Neath "Neath's Non-Flam Pictures" suggests a 16mm venue. Taken over by Philip E G Taylor in 1935.  The cinema operated with 150 seats and a proscenium of 10'.  By the end of the 1930s Mr Taylor had formed Cornwall Cinemas (Newquay) Ltd to run his cinemas and had increased the screenings to once nightly Thursdays, Fridays and twice Saturdays, previously there had only been Saturday evening shows. The operation ceased 17th February 1945.  The building now houses the library.

Chapel Bungalow ~ Victoria

Opened on 29th November 1946 in an old Chapel on Fair Street, only portable projection was used. The operator was Raymond Hewiton-Clarke.   There were 189 seats.  The operation ceased in the early 1950's, possibly with the opening of the 35mm operation at the Trevelyan.  That surely cannot be neon from its cinema days still on the facade?

Gone but not forgotten:        Trevelyan

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By 1954 the cinema operation was based at the hall next to the Weslyn Trevelyan chapel on Fore Street
and was run by Trevelyan Theatres (Dawlish) Ltd.  British Thomson Houston sound and a 20' by 10' scope  
screen was used within a 25' proscenium.  Last recorded about 1959, the building was demolished in the
1990s and is now a car park.