Savoy Cinema
1649-1651 Pershore Road,
Birmingham,
B30 3DR
1649-1651 Pershore Road,
Birmingham,
B30 3DR
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I have a feeling that someone was killed falling over the balcony in there in the 50s ?
From 1958 Become “Art Display Services Ltd” Poster contractors for ABC Cinemas…. Remember being sent there for Posters while with ABC….
Thank’s for clarifying that Derek.
The savoy cinema was at the place know as breedon cross.The reason for this was because it was opposite a public house known as the breedon,which was destroyed by fire,demolished,and are now turned into a block of flats.
The street address of the Savoy Cinema is 1649-1651 Pershore Road, Stirchley, Birmingham. It originally opened in 1923 as a silent cinema and music hall known as the Kings Norton Palace of Varieties (later known as the Palace Cinema).
In 1933 it was refurbished and modernised and re-opened as the Savoy Cinema. A monthly programme for 1938 is headed ‘The Savoy, Kings Norton’. It closed on 2nd February 1958 and was converted into industrial use, known as Savoy Works.
Strangely, the only ‘Savoy Cinema’ I have records of in my listings of Birmingham cinemas (various Kine Yearbooks) is the Savoy, Breedon Cross, Kings Norton which had a seating capacity of 950.