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A Bioscope show at the turn of the century.
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

Pyke’s Cinematograph Theatre in Balham, south London, photographed soon after it opened in 1911.
RCHME © Crown Copyright.

The Richmond Cinema, built in 1929.
Courtesy of the Greater London Records Office.

Child audience.
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

The Scala Cinema, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Courtesy of David Roddis.

Interior of the Astoria, Brixton; seating 4,500 people.
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

Interior of the Granada, Tooting.
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

1930s cinema café, The Regent Sheffield.
Source – Sheffield City Library.

1930s art deco cinema interior (Odeon Leicester Square).
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

The Odeon, Brentwood, Essex opened in 1937.
Photography by Kevin S. Wheelan. Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

Cinema advertisements, 1937.
Enter the Dream-House, MOMI.

Queue outside a cinema in 1937.
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.

Cinema front. (Maida Vale Picture House)
Courtesy of the Greater London Records Office.

The Electra Palace, Eckington, Derbyshire, in 1966.
Sheffield Newspapers. Source – Sheffield City Library.

Early cinema in Richmond, Surrey (1910), used as a car showroom.
Courtesy of the Greater London Records Office.

Mecca Social Club, Gloucester, 1975 (Previously the Ritz Cinema).
Source – BFI Stills, Posters and Designs.