Cinedrome
27 Fore Street,
Liskeard,
PL14 3GZ
27 Fore Street,
Liskeard,
PL14 3GZ
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The first film was as per the text a navy recruitment film, it’s title was ‘The Royal Navy Division at Work and Play’. The first Market House was built in 1574. A replacement was built on the same sight at a cost of £800 in 1821/22 designed by John Foulston, his fee was 15 guineas.
Mr Pickle’s purchased an organ from a chapel that was in nearby Pensilva village for 30 shillings to accompany the silent films.
My thanks to the Liskeard Old Cornwall Society (and my mum!) for obtaining this extra detail/information for me to add to here.
The old market building still stands at 27 Fore Street, the Boots the Chemists having built a single floor extension outwards with the curved end and doorways, which had been open-space for market stalls. My grandmother went to the cinema in the early 30’s as a child, it was called the Cinedrome then, and owned by E.J. & W. E. Pope who opened the Cinedrome, later called the Carlton Cinema, hence one closing and the other opening at the same time. The Pope’s also operated the Carlton in Okehampton.