Royalty Cinema

dsdumpling on March 24, 2018 at 9:38 pm

The Cinedrome Electric Theatre, was located on the site of the current Dartmouth Clinic at Zion Place, Mayor’s Avenue, and is first listed in Kelly’s Directory of Devon in 1923; by 1939 it was listed simply as the Cinedrome. It had 600 seats, and occasional variety was performed on the 20 feet deep stage.

It retained the Cinedrome name until at least 1944. By 1947 the name had been changed to The Maxime and the cinema is listed in the Kinematograph Year Book (1949-1959) as being operated by Cornell Cinemas (Port Talbot) Ltd.

The White brothers took over the lease on the Dartmouth cinema in the mid-1960s. They removed the Maxime name from the Dartmouth cinema and traded it simply as The Cinema (as listed in the 1968 Kine & TV Year Book).

They later sold what remained of the lease for the Dartmouth Cinema on to Mr C.C.W. ‘Charles’ Scott, of Scott Cinemas, in the early 1970s.

After being closed for refurbishment, The Cinema reopened in April 1973 as the Royalty Cinema and continued to be run by Scott Cinemas until it closed in August of 1986.