Catshill Cinema

Stourbridge Road,
Bromsgrove, B61

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Biffaskin
Biffaskin on December 1, 2023 at 2:06 am

The school still survives as an NHS centre, and is Listed Grade II. Designed in 1909 by County Architect A.V. Rowe, G.H. Gadd, a local architect supervised the building’s erection. The school opened in 1912. The school hall retains the original decoration, including wood panelling, herringbone pattern wood block flooring and barrel-vaulted ceiling. The school was called Parkside School.

popcorn_pete
popcorn_pete on July 5, 2018 at 6:26 am

The cinema on Stourbridge Road was in the Old School Hall and was run by Harry Bowers in the 1920s. It closed down when talkies arrived at the Plaza in 1931. There was another in the village on Golden Cross Lane where Spar is now, run by Archie Holloway in the 1940s. The tin-roofed hut was declared unsafe and business moved to the Village Hall opposite which lasted until 1964. The Hall is still standing.