Ritz Cinema
Queen Street,
Penzance,
TR18 4BJ
Queen Street,
Penzance,
TR18 4BJ
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As of August 2017 cinema remains boarded up, a local business says it was last in use as a nightclub.
The Compton Organ at the Ritz Cinema Penzance was opened by Harold Ramsay who met the young local organist Dudley Savage. Dudley was signed by Harold Ramsey to tour the Union Cinemas . Reginald Foort did appear at the Ritz in 1947 for a charity concert.
The Ritz Penzance has been brought by Merlin Cinemas (which also owns and runs the Savoy Cinema in Penzance). Merlin will work with the Ritz Community Centre Trust to find a viable use for the former Ritz Cinema.
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Penzance-Ritz-saved-bulldozers-thanks-minute-buy/story-19453808-detail/story.html
There’s a brilliant website, with loads of pictures and information about the Ritz, here:
http://ritzpenzance.com/page1.html
There seems to be a campaign to save the ritz.since the summer of 2008
imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/images/2009/06/26/ritz_inside_203jpg_203x152.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2009/06/26/history_ritz_feature.shtml&usg=__Vs0t1hUuxUKDXFKqlBtWtMcwnTQ=&h=152&w=203&sz=15&hl=en&start=15&zoom=0&itbs=1&tbnid=Dq1fKYh_K9XzLM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dritz%2Bpenzance%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=eyW0Td2rAYyCvgOC1NGcBw
Recent March 2008 photographs of the former Ritz Cinema as a bingo club:
http://flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/2368998225/
http://flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/2353391906/
http://flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/2352561429/
Rear of the building:
http://flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/740781943/
Close-up in July 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/11763518@N00/2680691486/