Imperial Cinema
5-7 Brighton Road,
Crawley,
RH10 6AE
5-7 Brighton Road,
Crawley,
RH10 6AE
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The 1928 reopening was on Saturday 20 July. The balcony accommodated 124, the stalls 540. The stalls floor sloped down from the back and down from the proscenium; so occupants of front rows would not have to crane their heads back. The projectors were Ernemann Imperator II. The screen was 20ft wide; and there was an orchestra of four. (Source: West Sussex County Times 20 July 1929)
Shipman and King purchased the Imperial before they opened their Embassy but ran both cinemas until after the Second World war
A photo with the building in use as the showroom here:–
FORMER IMPERIAL CINEMA