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Cannon Cinema

Formerly The Savoy

By John Desborough

"The Cannon Cinema was formerly known as the Savoy Cinema. I queued many times outside the rear entrance and previously at the seafront entrance back in the late 50s and early 60s. We had our wedding reception in the dance hall upstairs in 1966."

The Savoy, now the Cannon cinema

Image reproduced with kind permission from Brighton and Hove in Pictures by Brighton and Hove City Council

Text sent to website by e-mail on 05-02-2003

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I can remember the Savoy Cinema in the fifties. At this time I was attending Fawcett School and we had been given a consessions to see the film Dambusters for the princely sum of one shilling - shows my age. At that time I was 12 and feeling quite grown up until my mum caught me having a crafty drag. Like a clot, I had not kept an eye out for her and as she worked only a short distance away from the Savoy, she was in a good position to spot me. I managed to talk my way out of it, but I didn't touch a fag for a long time after that. I enjoyed the film though and that was the most important thing.

By John Wignall (15/08/2007)