Windsor Cinema
Hartley Road and Wilton Road,
Nottingham,
NG7 3AJ
Hartley Road and Wilton Road,
Nottingham,
NG7 3AJ
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Architects: Alfred John Thraves
Functions: Furniture Showroom
Styles: Art Deco
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Located in the northwest Nottingham district of Radford, on the corner of Hartley Road and Wilton Road. The Windsor Cinema was opened on 29th June 1939 with Ray Milland in “Men with Wings”. It was independently operated. Designed by Nottingham based architect Alfred J. Thraves, it had a 60 feet tower feature on the left of the façade. Inside the auditorium seating was provided in stalls and circle levels. There were decorative grilles on each side of the 29 feet wide proscenium. It was equipped with a Western Electric(WE) sound system.
It was equipped with CinemaScope in 1955. The Windsor Cinema was last advertised on 9th March 1962 with Terrence Stamp in “Billy Budd” and “Goalbreak”. It operated until June 1962 before its final closure.
The building became a Players cigarettes gift store. It is today in retail used as a United Carpets & Bed Warehouse.
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In the ‘60s this was the Players No.6 gift showroom where we exchanged the cigarette coupons for stuff (to make us feel good about smoking!)
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Nottingham Windsor Cinema. Designed in art deco style by Alfred Thraves. It had a wealth of internal plasterwork, which looks very like Mollo & Egan to me, and much still survives. It was converted to Cinemascope in 1955, at which point the original proscenium and possibly the decorative side grilles may have lost - there is no trace of them now. The balcony has also been partially removed, and a false floor inserted at the screen end. It closed in June 1962, and became a Players Gift Showroom, before its current use as a carpet warehouse. Believed to be under threat of redevelopment. The roof is in poor condition. The facade is mostly intact under the cladding, originally with an elegant canopy above the entrance doors, with three tall windows (now blocked off) at first floor level that lit the circle foyer. It may well have had neon lighting. Clearly (even now) this was once a very elegant cinema, but the size of the site, together with the adjacent car park, is likely to prove its downfall in the near future.
WINDSOR CINEMA - Exterior
WINDSOR CINEMA - Ceiling above balcony
WINDSOR CINEMA - Foyer
WINDSOR CINEMA - Art deco window on stairs to circle