Coliseum Picture Theatre
78 West Street,
Brighton,
BN1 2RA
78 West Street,
Brighton,
BN1 2RA
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Previous Names: Grand Concert Hall and Picture Palace
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In the East Sussex coastal resort of Brighton, an early, short-lived cinema started life as the Concert Hall and Picture Palace, which opened on Thursday 25th May 1911.
The building first opened in 1892 as a long, narrow skating rink. As a concert hall and cinema, it seated nearly 2,000 with its newly added balcony. Aside from films, a speciality was military band nights.
Cinema use ceased in 1917, then resumed briefly from 1918, when it was known as the Coliseum Picture Theatre. But the building found its true vocation from 1919 to 1950 as Sherry’s Palais de Danse.
In March 1961, renamed the Ritz, bingo took over.
When I visited, in January 2004, the building was home to Creation nightclub. Later named Headcandi. More recently, it has become The Synergy Centre, “a community arts venue designed to offer affordable creative space to any organisation working towards a positive, conscious-minded, socially inclusive and environmentally friendly society”. The two main rooms can seat 350 and 150 persons. It had closed by March 2019.
It was announced in April 2021 that the building would be demolished.
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Just about to be demolished to make way for flats. Announced in local paper, The Argus.
Streetview confirms that it has now been demolished.