Cosy Cinema
193 Queen Street,
Withernsea,
HU19 2JR
193 Queen Street,
Withernsea,
HU19 2JR
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Located in Withernsea, near Hull, Yorkshire, it was on Queen Street, adjacent to the Kinema. The Cosy Cinema was opened around 1920. Around 1930 it was equipped with a British Acoustic(BA) sound system. From around 1939 to the late-1940’s it was in use as a live theatre. In the mid-1950’s it was equipped with CinemaScope and returned to cinema use in the summer season. The Cosy Cinema was closed on 31st December 1974. It operates today as the Victorian Bar.
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Ken Roe
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There are actually two cinemas in this picture, next door to one another. The Cosy is the nearer one entered through what appears to be an earlier terraced property with a bay window above the canopy. The Kinema is beyond in a more traditional style of cinema architecture, and it is this building which is the amusement arcade today.
The Kinema had 666 seats (KYB 1940) in stalls and balcony.
A more recent photo here: KINEMA
The Cosy was still listed in the 1954 KYB. Then it was operated by Vin Lockey of Withernsea and had 280 seats.
You have good eyesight Ian :o)
No. I made a similar mistake in identification on a photo in my flickr stream and got (quite rightly) pulled up! There was also a third cinema (the Savoy) in the same street. The Cosy is – somewhat mystifyingly – uncertain as to when it opened. This is obviously an old, possibly 1930’s, photo yet the Cosy is not in any KYB that I have until 1954. Yet it is clearly (once you know) separate from the Kinema next door.
I sadly have dodgy eyesight and an increasingly dodgier memory!!!!