Plaza Cinema

The windows to left and right of the roller-shuttered, arched entrance were the men’s and women’s toilets, respectively, accessed from the small entrance foyer. Sometime very early in the 1950s the low brick extension was built as the men’s (floor below street level) with access from the auditorium. Auditorium access was made into the women’s and the foyer access sealed off. The original men’s became a staff room. I recall seeing the interval ice cream sales trays and freezers in there.

The red brick flank of the auditorium still shows the line of a canopy covering the area which never seemed to serve any real purpose. Though, as children, we could go under the canopy and put our ears to air bricks below the (now boarded; once shuttered) windows and hear the film!