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Classic Cinema

Originally ‘The Electric Bioscope’ opened in 1909.

Flamboyant cinema manager, 1970s
My father, Chris Hughes, was the flamboyant manager of the Curzon Cinema in the 1970’s when it was called The ...
Killed off by the video age
Second run cinema The Classic was a second-run cinema, so the films had all played somewhere else first. Disney, Bond films ...
Late night music films
Usually a big queue I remember the Classic Cinema in the early 1970s when I was in my teens; I left ...
The Classic Cinema
A cinema since 1909 This photograph shows the Classic Cinema in 1979, just after it had been closed down. The last ...

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