Lovely to see it today as part of the Annual ‘Open House’ event. Amazing so much survives, though it could do with some refurb. Best of all a chance to see the beautiful Wurlitzer. Hope they get the money to restore it again after the flood.
On a related topic, I’m researching a book about a man who was prosecuted in 1936 for having sex with a 16-year-old usher from the Granada Tooting. They made contact in the cinema and arranged to go to the Strand Palace Hotel. The lad in question had been posing for 2 – 3 years for nude pictures for ‘connoisseurs’, so was obviously experienced and this seems to be a little bit of a ‘vice ring’. What I’m wondering is whether this kind of thing was common. Whether cinemas and ushers/usherettes were known for this in the 1930s in the way that Music Halls were in the 1870s-90s. Anyone got any information?
Lovely to see it today as part of the Annual ‘Open House’ event. Amazing so much survives, though it could do with some refurb. Best of all a chance to see the beautiful Wurlitzer. Hope they get the money to restore it again after the flood.
On a related topic, I’m researching a book about a man who was prosecuted in 1936 for having sex with a 16-year-old usher from the Granada Tooting. They made contact in the cinema and arranged to go to the Strand Palace Hotel. The lad in question had been posing for 2 – 3 years for nude pictures for ‘connoisseurs’, so was obviously experienced and this seems to be a little bit of a ‘vice ring’. What I’m wondering is whether this kind of thing was common. Whether cinemas and ushers/usherettes were known for this in the 1930s in the way that Music Halls were in the 1870s-90s. Anyone got any information?