Civic Gardens 919 Beaufort Street, Inglewood, WA 1936 – Previously the Piccadilly Picture Gardens

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Civic Gardens 919 Beaufort Street, Inglewood, WA 1936 – Previously the Piccadilly Picture Gardens

Photo of the Civic Gardens – The Daily News (Perth, WA) Sat 28 Mar 1936.

The Piccadilly Picture Gardens was built in 1926, however Damaged by a fire on 5 January 1928, the Civic Theatre was built next door on the corner of the site and the combined venue was named the Civic theatre and Gardens. The re-built gardens & the new Civic hard-top theatre opened on the 23rd March 1936.

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Tom Snooks was actively involved with the Civic Theatre site in Inglewood, Western Australia from the early 1920s until his death in 1958. It was in the early 1920s that Tom built the Piccadilly Picture Gardens, which was one of the first outdoor film-showing venues in the inner north-eastern suburbs. It was a structure that fascinated the local children, as it was built to resemble a castle, clad in appropriately painted corrugated iron. The gardens were damaged by a fire on 5 January 1928. Tom reshaped the entire site by building an indoor cinema with adjoining picture gardens – now re-christened the Civic theatre & Gardens, re-opening 23rd March 1936 – Contributed by Greg Lynch –