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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United Kingdom » England » Harrogate, North Yorkshire » ABC Harrogate
Also known as Regal Cinema

ABC Harrogate

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
Cambridge Road
, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom HG1 1NS
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Twin
Style: Art Deco
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1646
Chain: Unknown
Architect: William R. Glen
Firm: Unknown
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The Regal Cinema commanded a superb central position in Harrogate and was a particularly fine design by Associated British Cinemas(ABC) in-house architect WIlliam R. Glen working with local architects H. Linley Brown and H. Taylor. Total seating was provided for 1,646 in stalls and single balcony. There was an unusually lavish, and wide, screen arch with three illuminated panels either side on the splay walls, the central one containing one of the stylised "Oscar" figures similar to the Halifax Regal.

It opened on 18th September 1937 with Otto Kriger in "Glamorous Night" and Joel McRea in "You Can't Take the Money". Organist Wilfred Southworth opened the Compton 3Manual/6Ranks organ which had a melotone attachment and an illuminated console position on a lift.

The Regal Cinema was renamed ABC in the early 1960's. In 1973 it was twinned with half the under-balcony area becoming a 130 seat cinema (ABC2) and the the remainder a Painted Wagon pub. The balcony continued as ABC1 apparently unaltered, and retaining all the original features.

However the ABC's excellent location proved it's undoing and on 26th February 1983 it closed. It was sold for redevelopment and swiftly demolished to be replaced by a parade of shops including a McDonalds outlet.
Contributed by Ian Grundy

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A Compton theater organ size 3/6 was installed in the Regal Cinema in 1937. Status: Removed to a school in 1968.

posted by Lost Memory on Oct 20, 2007 at 4:19pm
Exterior picture here:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/2234370657/
posted by Ian on Feb 1, 2008 at 10:59am
This is a 1983 demolition photo.

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16pm
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