Coronet Cinema
103-111 High Street,
Notting Hill,
London,
W11 3LB
103-111 High Street,
Notting Hill,
London,
W11 3LB
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Located in the west London inner-city district of Notting Hill. Opened as the Coronet Theatre (a playhouse) in 1898 with 1,143 seats located in stalls, balcony and gallery. It went over to screening films full time in 1923. In 1931 it was taken over by Gaumont British Theatres/Provincial Cinematograph Theatres(PCT) and re-opened on 17th August 1931 with 1,010 seats.
It was re-named Gaumont Theatre in 1950 and continued through to 1977 playing the Gaumont and Rank releases. It was taken over by the independent operator Panton Films from 27th February 1977 and re-named Coronet Cinema, with a reduced seating capacity of 399, using the stalls and balcony seating areas only.
Today, the main original auditorium is virtually intact, however a second screen with 151 seats was erected on the stage in 2002. The main original auditorium now has a seating capacity of 380, with 220 in the stalls and 160 in the balcony(the gallery is unused). In May 2004 it was purchased by a church, but it remains open as a cinema. It is a Grade II Listed building.
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Here is a recent close-up view of the Coronet Cinema.
Some interior shots taken in 1988 can be found here:–
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exterior shots taken in the summer of 2009 showing the front and rear of this incredible building
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/4301920810/
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photos taken at the UK premiere of Black Death June 2010, a Frightfest screening with Q&A by Chris Smith the director
the queue waiting to get in
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the auditorium
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Some photo’s of the Coronet taken in January 2011 here:–
Exterior:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/5348116695/
Auditorium (Screen 1):
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A few more shots:
Screen 2:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/5363345534/
Screen 1:
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I saw “Malcolm X” here back in 1993 or 93; I sat in the balcony, where smoking was still permitted.
A lovely, lovely house.
I was assistant manager here from 1972 till 1972 with Tony Portch as manager. I fell in love with the place the first time I walked in for my interview with Tony.
Together with a group of friends, I attended a late night show at the Gaumont one Saturday evening in the early ‘70s. The programme was an Astaire/Rodgers double bill of “Top Hat” and “Swing Time” and the atmosphere in those theatrical surroundings was fantastic. My group were not able to get seats together and, shortly after we took our seats, people were being turned away. After every musical number, enthusiastic applause rang out and a very happy crowd emerged to wend their ways home in the early hours. Following the double bill’s success here, Rank’s Booking Dept. was instructed to only arrange such screenings of one film or the other as it was felt that, in the right locations, each of the films would do well on its own. Thus two profitable shows could be had. Tills, or rather Automaticket machines, would ring merrily and I can’t imagine the films would have cost much to hire. When managing the Odeon, Stockton-On-Tees, I showed “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!” as a late night double bill in 1970 – United Artists charged Rank £14.7s.6d for the films (£14.37) and we sold over 700 tickets. I digress!