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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United Kingdom » England » Keighley, West Yorkshire » ABC Keighley
Also known as Ritz Cinema

ABC Keighley

Keighley, West Yorkshire, England
38 Alice Street
, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom BD21 3DA
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Moderne
Function: Bingo Hall
Seats: 1526
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Samuel Beverley
Firm: Verity and Beverley
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Following the take over of Union Cinemas by ABC Theatres a number of theatres planned and started by Union opened under the ABC control, including the Ritz in the northern town of Keighley which opened on 28th February 1938.

Seating 1526 and provided with a Compton 3Manual/5Rank organ and small variety stage the Ritz was the most luxurious theatre in the area and it even had the facility of a cafe-restaurant which seated 100. It was designed by the well respected firm of Verity & Beverley with Sam Beverley acting as the chief architect for the scheme.

It was renamed ABC on 30th July 1971 and showed its last film on 2nd February 1974, its end apparently hastened by the fuel crisis which crippled the UK at that time.

Eventually it was converted to Bingo and remains in that mode to this day as a Gala Bingo Club. A false floor has been constructed at balcony level but above that the Ritz survives unaltered. Alice Street is a side road near to the town centre but just far enough off the beaten track - so the site has not yet proved attractive to developers.
Contributed by Ian Grundy

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Photo (as bingo hall) here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/82494790/
posted by Ian on Jan 27, 2006 at 4:09am
I saw Paint Your Waggon with my Grandma when I was about 10 years old
posted by Johnny Crow on Jul 5, 2007 at 5:30am
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