Gaumont Palace Derby

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Photograph taken prior to opening. The Safety Curtain painted by Frank Barnes and similar to that Barnes painted for the Gaumont Palace Doncaster, which opened two weeks earlier on the 3rd September 1934. The splay walls have unusual lighting feature, Compton organ with illuminated console in the raised position, the organ chambers were situated behind the ornamental grilles across the top of the proscenium.

Ron Knee