Gaumont Reading
143-145 Oxford Road,
Reading,
RG1 7UY
143-145 Oxford Road,
Reading,
RG1 7UY
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“The Pavilion” building is now home to the LifeSpring Church and is available for hire.
I remember going to the last film to be shown. It was very cold, as the boiler had run out of oil. At the start of the show the tabs would not open and the projectionist has to run down and open them by hand. I recall very few in the audience that sad last night. Not a cinema I really liked much. A real barn of a place with the screen quite high. A long narrow hall if I recall.
Ctaig… Check with you local Public Library" archives, especially the “opening day” shots, or perhaps Odeon themselves.
Does anyone have a picture of the inside when it was a cinema. We’re looking at buying the building for a church and would like to see what it looked like before it was pulled apart to be a bingo hall and pool hall. Thanks
From the many photos I have up/downloaded of English cinemas and theaters, many had steps leading up to the box office or entry doors.
I wonder how handicapped patrons managed in the days before wheelchair ramps were finally installed?
A vintage photograph of the newly re-named Gaumont, playing the Gaumont release in January 1958:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/readingg.jpg