Kosmos Kinema

40-42 Calverley Road,
Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2TU

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Previously operated by: Essoldo Circuit (Contol) Ltd., Union Cinema Co. Ltd.

Functions: Retail

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Kosmos Kinema

Opened on the 23rd February 1914 in a shopping street. Affectionately known as the ‘Kozzy’ it was known for Mac Sennett comedies and westerns. Fred Bernhard of the Union Cinemas circuit took control in October, 1935. When Union Cinemas circuit was absorbed by Associated British Cinemas(ABC), he retained all their Tunbridge Wells cinemas until his early death in June 1949. Essoldo took over from his Provincial and Urban Cinemas in February 1954 and an increasingly X-Rated fare was presented.

Closure of the Kosmos Kinema took place on 26th March, 1960 with “Demetrius and the Gladiators”. Gutted to become a Pricerite store, the foyer was kept for Peter Lord. Traces of the bay window remain above the current shop -Kew. There was a café attached and the local press record a lady discovering a silent outmoded version of the café years after it closed, in a rare time warp experience.

Contributed by Martin Tapsell

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Buffer on February 10, 2014 at 2:13 am

The exterior was taken in c.2013 and shows a surviving bay window.

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Buffer on October 11, 2014 at 1:02 pm

In September, 2014 used by Hotter, a shoe shop chain with auditorium to right of this shop.

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