Classic Brighton
129B Western Road,
Brighton,
BN1
129B Western Road,
Brighton,
BN1
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Opened in converted shop 1909 as Electric Bioscope with 50 seats. 1910 renamed Queen’s Electric Theatre when it was enlarged to 250 seats. Renamed Queen’s Picture Theatre 1915. Renamed Picturedrome 1919. Renamed Scala 1922. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1926.
Renamed Regal Cinema 1932. Renamed Curzon Kinema 1936 after an Art Deco remodel by London based architect James Morrison. Renamed Classic 1975. Closed in 1979.
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R H Scott-Spencer
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The street address of the Classic Cinema is 129B Western Road, Brighton.
It was modernised into an Art Deco style in 1936.
It closed as a cinema on 31st August 1979 with the films 2The Spaceman & King Arthur" + “The Warriors”.
The last time I visited the building, about 5 years ago, it was use as an amusement arcade.
I think you may be confusing the Curzon / Classic with the Embassy further up the Western Road but across the border into Hove. The Curzon was totally demolished around 1979 and has been replaced by the Waitrose supermarket. The Embassy, part of the Miles Byrne circuit of cinema closed as a cinema in the early 1980’s, became the Black Cat bingo hall, then a pine furniture shop and has more recently become an amusement arcade.
Thanks Ian,
You are correct. The current status of the Classic Cinema should be ammended to Demolished. I believe a supermarket was built on the site.
Here is a link to a page with several vintage photographs and a potted history:
http://www.terramedia.co.uk/brighton/Curzon.htm