Palace Cinema
Main Street,
Grange-over-Sands,
LA11 6DP
Main Street,
Grange-over-Sands,
LA11 6DP
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In Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, the Palace Cinema opened in 1923, with 500 seats. A café and a ballroom were also housed in the large building, which was owned by Albert Nelson and J. H. Lines.
The 1940 Kinematograph Year Book listed the executors of Albert Nelson as the proprietors. By the 1953 edition, the owners were Nelson Brothers. At that time the café was also mentioned, but not the ballroom, which had presumably gone into other uses.
The Palace Cinema closed on 22nd December 1957, by then with 396 seats. A notice on the doors said that closure was caused by the failure of the management to obtain an exemption from Entertainment Tax available to cinemas in towns of fewer than 3,000 people. (The census in 1951 listed 3,028 people, but the management maintained this still included many wartime evacuees, and that the true population was only 2,840.)
The building became home to Amber Court Chinese restaurant, offices and shops. By 2017 it was in use as a restaurant, bar and gymnasium.
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A photo from 1997
PALACE
The current(July 2017) uses are pub (Keg and Kitchen) Palace Gym and Chinese restaurant.