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Centre Gardens and Hall Archibald Street and Winnacott Street, Willagee, WA

A magnificent example of a well set up traditional Picture Gardens of the era.

Photo 1960 by (Ken Booth)

The Willagee Centre Gardens, seating 500, were built by Ken Booth in 1955, at a cost of £15,000. An impressive brick facade on the street housed the projection booth, ticket office, toilets and shop. This was one ´gardens’ which took great pains to give the impression of being really inside a garden.

Four blocks of canvas deckchairs faced the screen, with well-tended shrubs and strategically placed small trees in garden beds inside the high brick wall, and climbing plants covering the side walls.

Apparently there was also a small hall associated with the gardens, which continued on to 1965, after the gardens had been closed in 1962 and the site bought by Woolworths.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -