Plaza Cinema

208 Gorton Lane,
Manchester, M18 8DA

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Biffaskin
Biffaskin on December 19, 2023 at 9:59 am

1929 rebuild to plans by Ernest Ogden, client named as O & G Dewhurst. Reconstruction of existing cinema. The King George V was opened in 1912 with 700 seats. Closed 1929 and replaced by the Plaza Cinema on the same site. Reference Builder 1 March 1929 page 451, hopefully, this helps explain things a bit!

durhamdown
durhamdown on January 2, 2016 at 10:50 am

The variations in seating accommodation may be because much (most?) of the seating, at least in the 1930s, was on benches, not individual seats. It becomes a matter of judgement how many you can squash onto a bench!