Behind that central panel, the two projectors were within a brick-built room. There was a corridor at the back with windows overlooking Ebenezer Place. The lone pair of port holes at the right were for a spotlight located in a room containing the gramophone and (I seem to recall) the rewind and film store facilities. The spotlight was replaced by lamps on the auditorium walls above where the usherettes stood, leaning back with the weight of a laden tray! In the late 1950s, whilst at junior school (Bell School on Southfield Lane) my dad arranged for me to be shown round by one of his friends who was a projectionist.
Behind that central panel, the two projectors were within a brick-built room. There was a corridor at the back with windows overlooking Ebenezer Place. The lone pair of port holes at the right were for a spotlight located in a room containing the gramophone and (I seem to recall) the rewind and film store facilities. The spotlight was replaced by lamps on the auditorium walls above where the usherettes stood, leaning back with the weight of a laden tray! In the late 1950s, whilst at junior school (Bell School on Southfield Lane) my dad arranged for me to be shown round by one of his friends who was a projectionist.