Theatre One Cinema
Ford Street and Cox Street,
Coventry,
CV1
Ford Street and Cox Street,
Coventry,
CV1
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The Alexandra was the first cinema in Coventry with CinemaScope. It closed from Saturday September 25th 1954 to Saturday October 2nd 1954 for installation of CinemaScope and 4 track mag. stereo sound. On Sunday October 3rd The Robe began a three week run.
Demolished 2014
Grand opening ads and pictures posted.
Theatre One opened as twin cinemas on 27th December 1971. The opening films were “Scrooge” starring Albert Finney in Cine One and “The Tales of Beatrix Potter” in Cine Two. The previous Friday, the Coventry Evening Telegraph published an adverting feature on the new cinemas with adverts from various distributors. In the accompanying article, there is an interesting comment that when the Alexandra was reconstructed as Theatre One, the cinema had obtained from the Monopolies Commission a ruling that it should receive 12 ½ % of ABC and Rank releases. Apparently it was the first independent cinema in the country to be given a share of the major circuit releases.
The Alexandra closed on Saturday 22nd November 1969. It reopened as Theatre One on Saturday28th March 1970, the opening film being The Reckoning starring Nicol Williamson.
A photo of Theatre One in 1995:–
THEATRE ONE