Art Cinema

madorganplayer on May 10, 2023 at 6:22 pm

The organ must have been ejected by the early thirties as it was soon equipped with a Compton 3c/5 theatre organ.This organ although not still in the Art is still in existance.The organist at one time there was a Mr Arthur Turner.Arther married into money and bought his own cinema,the Hollywood Plaza in Scarborough.There he bought and installed the Wurlitzer organ from the Ritz ABC Ipswich.A man with money he was,an organ builder he wasnt.The thing was cobbled together and it was a miracle it played at all.

andertpj on January 17, 2012 at 3:59 pm

Albert Winstanley built and lived in my childhood home in Lytham St Annes named Kingswear (we still have this house). The address is 53 Orchard Rd, St Annes, FY8 1PG. I believe he had offices on St Annes Crescent (Imperial Chambers) as an architect and surveyor for many years. He designed a theater in Crew- the staff of which were kind enough to send me scans of his sketches.

Paul Anderton

Ian on December 22, 2007 at 2:32 pm

More scanned images of the interior from 1988 here:–

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Ian on February 7, 2007 at 9:23 am

Albert Winstanley was born in Scotland in 1876. He was initially employed in a practice led by Arnold England but soon had his own company with offices at 49 Deansgate Manchester and in Lytham St Annes. From 1919 to 1928 Charles Hamilton Mackeith was his assisant. To the above list can be added a rebuild of the Art Picture Theatre New Mills(1921). He died in 1943.

Ian on December 25, 2006 at 4:32 am

Exterior photo here:–

http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/331843057/