Although only 2 and a half I recollect the scaffolding around the new Rex. My parents were excited and a year or two later when I was older it was our cinema of choice for family films.
The inside was red – seats, proscenium curtains and carpets. I watched it built from my push chair when we lived in Dewsbury Road. Later I worked in 1954 for A V Montague who had designed the Rex. It was simple in decor and the screen curtains were some sort of small squares a bit like an egg box. The staircase was grand and opened into a lounge area that never to my knowledge was ever furnished.
Although only 2 and a half I recollect the scaffolding around the new Rex. My parents were excited and a year or two later when I was older it was our cinema of choice for family films.
Very comfortable recent cinema we went to occasionally in the 1940s. In the 1980s attended a wedding there and still comfortable.
The inside was red – seats, proscenium curtains and carpets. I watched it built from my push chair when we lived in Dewsbury Road. Later I worked in 1954 for A V Montague who had designed the Rex. It was simple in decor and the screen curtains were some sort of small squares a bit like an egg box. The staircase was grand and opened into a lounge area that never to my knowledge was ever furnished.