Tudor Cinema

Located in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The Tudor Cinema was opened on 2nd December 1929 with “The Sea Beast”. It was designed by Nottingham based architect Alfred J. Thraves in a Tudor Revival style.

In September 1931 it was equipped with a sound-on-disc sound system and screened its first talkie Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer”. It was soon equipped with a British Thomson-Houston(BTH sound system.

In 1946 it was taken over by the Leeds based Star Cinemas chain, and after a refurfishment, re-opened on 9th September 1946 with Gregory Peck in “The Valley of Decision”. In 1954 it was equipped with CinemaScope, the first film to be screened in that process was “Doris Day in "Lucky Me”. From August 1963 it began part-time bingo on 3 days a week.

Star Cinemas sold the cinema to Silverline Entertainments Ltd. in 1972, and they closed the Tudor Cinema on 2nd February 1974.

In 2014, the building is in use as the Yang Xian Cantonese Restaurant.

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