Herga Cinema

130elgin on November 18, 2016 at 11:51 am

I lived at Belmont as a boy.In the war people queuing to get in would grind coins into the soft red brick wall, leaving perfectly round craters.At interval time the exit doors were opened and usherettes would come round spraying some liquid with a Flit gun.As kids we said it was to kill the fleas.But we still liked going to the Herga.

thegoodlead on October 18, 2016 at 12:37 pm

Regarding the opening date of this cinema. The 1913 OS 25 inch map shows a cinema on the same site, albeit a different shape footprint to the 1930s Herga. So the building currently on the site was clearly a rebuild of an earlier cinema.

Ian on December 19, 2006 at 9:15 am

A photo of the former Herga, after closure and conversion to a store, can be found here:–

http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/213273407/