Imperial Cinema

5-7 Brighton Road,
Crawley, RH10 6AE

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HJHill
HJHill on September 16, 2018 at 1:21 pm

The 1928 reopening was on Saturday 20 July. The balcony accommodated 124, the stalls 540. The stalls floor sloped down from the back and down from the proscenium; so occupants of front rows would not have to crane their heads back. The projectors were Ernemann Imperator II. The screen was 20ft wide; and there was an orchestra of four. (Source: West Sussex County Times 20 July 1929)

Buffer
Buffer on April 1, 2014 at 11:36 am

Shipman and King purchased the Imperial before they opened their Embassy but ran both cinemas until after the Second World war

Ian Grundy
Ian Grundy on December 28, 2011 at 10:00 am

A photo with the building in use as the showroom here:–

FORMER IMPERIAL CINEMA