Scala Cinema

In the small town of New Milton, on the Hampshire coast, midway between Chichester and Lymington, in 1919, an ex-Army hut was transported from Christchurch and re-opened as the Scala Cinema.

According to the Kinematograph Year Book for 1928 the proprietor and resident manager was by then (at least) F. A. Hobson. There was one show nightly, and there was a dance hall attached.

A larger rival, the Waverley Cinema (see separate Cinema Treasures entry) appeared in 1929. The Scala Cinema was wired for sound when a locally made sound system was installed. The Scala Cinema made its final appearance in the Kinematograph Year Books in 1935.

The building was demolished. Shops were built on the site.

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