Roxy Theatre

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By 1935/6 there was growing community dissatisfaction with the standard of facilities offered by the cinema as a community function center. The local council responded with a plan to borrow £7000 to construct a new civic hall on the School of Arts site. Local interest in this idea subsided once it was realized that household rates would need to be raised in order to pay the debt! A compromise was reached when Woodrick undertook to purchase and make improvements to the Plaza if the Council refrained from building a hall. He bought the theater in mid-1936 and commissioned the leading cinema architects of the day - Crick and Furse - to come up with renovation plans.