Cosy Cinema

193 Queen Street,
Withernsea, HU19 2JR

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Ian
Ian on October 15, 2013 at 11:51 am

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!!!!

Mike_Blakemore
Mike_Blakemore on October 15, 2013 at 10:54 am

You have good eyesight Ian :o)

Ian
Ian on October 15, 2013 at 9:51 am

The Cosy was still listed in the 1954 KYB. Then it was operated by Vin Lockey of Withernsea and had 280 seats.

Ian
Ian on October 15, 2013 at 9:35 am

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