Regal Cinema
233 High Street,
Uxbridge,
UB8 1LD
233 High Street,
Uxbridge,
UB8 1LD
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Wasnt the scene where Maggie smith plays the Theatre organ in “Private Function' filmed in this cinema. Liz smith played Mother and she’s sat on the Organ Stool at the side of Maggie Smith who says "we’re going up Mother!” The late Liz Smith has a bemused look on her face if I remember correctly
I went there once only to see Dr Zhivago then years later on an Open Day to view the auditorium
@ curmudgeon How about the Avion Aldridge designed by Roland Satchwell He conceived the Odeon Look with Cecil Clavering
What a wonderful proscenium. And looks as though it could have accommodated a ‘Scope screen without alteration. Any other unusual proscenium designs?
Malc1945.. your comment regarding the projection equipment is misguided.. The projectors were Westar with a Westrex sound system and Peerless arc-lamps.. at least they were during the 50s and 60s. A Zenon system may have replaced the Peerless arc-lamps after my time there.
Recently picked up series 1 of 70s UK police series The Professionals. A large portion of one episode, Look After Annie, was shot in the Regal Uxbridge at the end of November 1977, seemingly just a few weeks after it closed as a cinema. There are numerous interior shots of both the auditorium and dressing rooms, which is the setting of a political speech in the episode, as well as some exteriors to the rear of the building. Worth picking up the newly restored Blu-ray of this series just to see this splendid cinema before it was altered inside!
We had Ross projectors here with RCA sound system.
This is what it looks like in September 2010
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A set of vintage photographs of the former Regal Cinema:
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February 2010 photographs of the auditorium as a nightclub:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbarr/4332341263/
A vintage photograph of the exterior of the Regal Cinema in early 1932, soon after opening:
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A March 1952 view, note the ABC ‘triangle’ sign:
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The auditorium in 1970:
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The closed Regal Cinema in May 1983:
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A closer view:
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