Focus Cinema
High Street,
Bagillt,
CH6 6HE
High Street,
Bagillt,
CH6 6HE
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Converted from a Chapel, the 650-seat Regent Cinema was opened in the late-1930’s. Once part of Deeside Entertainments, then by 1953 Paramount Picture Theatres Ltd. of Welshpool(Guy Baker). It became a bingo club, then a scenery store.
Re-opened as the 150-seat Focus Cinema cinema around 1992 and closed Christmas 1995. Closure was due to Peter Moore the lessee/operator at the time, being arrested for the murder of four gay men he had stabbed to death between September & December 1995 and torturing 39 men over a 20 years period. (He was sent to trial, convicted, and given a full life sentence). Peter Moore was also operating three other north Wales cinemas: Empire Cinema Holyhead, Kimmel Bay (south of Rhyl) and Wedgwood Cinema, Denbigh.
The Focus Cinema opened again for a few weeks by another cinema operator, but closed again.
Sold for housing to be built on the site.
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Mike Blakemore
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I beleive that the building was a former chapel, with the red bricked frontage added on for conversion into a cinema.
Yes looking at the picture it is very evident.. the rear extention.. looking at the side wall you can see the encased re-inforcements to hold up the balcony. In the foyer you could see the archway of the chapel doorway.
The sign on the front of the building came from the front of the Focus Cinema in Crewe, England.
Yes I did put the note on Focus Crewe I was going to add it to here :) saved me.