King George's Cinema

Located in the east London district of Poplar. A conversion of Saint George’s Public Hall. The King George’s Cinema opened around 1925 owned by G. Quick, with G.E. Agate as manager. It screened films for a cheap admission price, which was very popular in this poor area of London’s East End. By 1928 a new owner was W. MacVeagh, who remained owner until 1932.

Still open in 1932, it was closed in 1935, as the cost of fitting sound equipment was prohibitive. However it re-opened in around 1936, with a Mihaly sound system installed and it continued, even becoming a cinema with free admission in 1939. This was not to last, as on 3rd September 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, it was closed compulsory (as were all cinema and theatres in the UK for a couple of weeks), the King George’s Cinema never re-opened as a cinema. The building suffered some damage by German bombs during World War II.

Editions of Kine Yearbook often has it listed as the King George’s Picture Hall, but an actual programme held in the archive of the Cinema Theatre Association has it as the King Georges Cinema.

It has since been demolished and Poplar Fire Station now stands on the site.

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