Ace-State Cinema

Fairlop Road,
Barkingside, IG6 2EF

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Biffaskin
Biffaskin on July 13, 2023 at 3:08 am

Interestingly, the link to Dusashenka’s Flickr album linked by Ken Roe has the re-opening article by ABC, with interior photographs, giving the cinema as having been closed for 5 years, so a closure year of 1943, rather than 1941. This ties in with the 1944 KYB, prepared and printed in advance in 1943, which lists the State Cinema (under Barking) as still being operational under the Kay Bros. (Kessex Cinemas).

ODEONesque
ODEONesque on July 25, 2013 at 8:37 am

Well done to you Ken Roe, nice to see what the interior was like.

Actordave
Actordave on January 7, 2013 at 4:48 pm

This was my local cinema and I can remember going to see All Creatures Great And Small back in the mid 70’s.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on April 30, 2011 at 4:36 am

This set of photographs includes an article on the February 1948 re-opening, and has photographs of the interior:
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Ken Roe
Ken Roe on May 1, 2006 at 7:36 am

Here are two views of the former State Cinema as seen in the Summer of 1994:
Front main entrance on Fairlop Road, in use as a bingo hall (same use in 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/138412375/
The secondary entrance on Fullwell Avenue which served as the former balcony cinema operation when the building was ‘twinned’ for cine/bingo. Seen here after 10 years of closure (today in 2006) it is all boarded up:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/138412826/