Tudor Cinema

This was the first cinema built in the Nottingham area since the advent of ‘talkies’. Funding for the cinema was raised by local residents. W & F Chell were the builders and supplied all the fittings and joinery. The bricks came from T&J Smart’s Ludlow Hill brickworks. Plumbing was by H Whitmore of Bridge Grove and Central Avenue. I haven’t found confirmation, but I believe the electrical work and stage fittings were by WJ Furse of Traffic Street, Nottingham.

This was my local cinema until it was so sadly closed and demolished. We went to the Saturday morning kids' bunfights (6d in the stalls, 9d in the circle) and had a couple of school trips to see films; one was ‘The Ten Commandments’. It was located on the corner of Central Avenue and Rectory Road, where the tui holiday company now is.