Grange Picture House

HJHill commented about Grange Picture House on Jun 21, 2015 at 8:01 am

Those were the days when shops would hang covers at their windows on hot, sunny days. The retail unit on the right sold sweets and tobacco. There wasn’t a sweets/tobacco kiosk in the cinema; though there were the usual interval sales of ice-cream etc from trays worn stoically by usherettes. In the 1950s the shop seemed as dated as the cinema had become. On the left of the building there wasn’t a matching shop. Inside, that area was men and women’s toilets for the rear seats; and stairs up to the projection room.

The entrance doors were set back in the central opening. Pantograph-style metal gates were drawn across when the cinema was not open.