Classic Brighton
129B Western Road,
Brighton,
BN1 2LA
129B Western Road,
Brighton,
BN1 2LA
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Now I think of it,there was a labour exchange on the corner next to the cinema.I remember the line of men described as “being on the dole”, a sad picture in the mid-thirties,
I saw a few films there; I remember it being called “The Scala” although when I saw “That’s a good girl” with J. Buchanan and Elsie Randolph it must have been “Regal” Nice little cinema. Saw “Blonde Bombshell” there.On the corner of Western and Montpelier Roads. I passed it every day on the bus to Brighton Grammar School
Here is a link to a page with several vintage photographs and a potted history:
http://www.terramedia.co.uk/brighton/Curzon.htm
Thanks Ian,
You are correct. The current status of the Classic Cinema should be ammended to Demolished. I believe a supermarket was built on the site.
I think you may be confusing the Curzon / Classic with the Embassy further up the Western Road but across the border into Hove. The Curzon was totally demolished around 1979 and has been replaced by the Waitrose supermarket. The Embassy, part of the Miles Byrne circuit of cinema closed as a cinema in the early 1980’s, became the Black Cat bingo hall, then a pine furniture shop and has more recently become an amusement arcade.
The street address of the Classic Cinema is 129B Western Road, Brighton.
It was modernised into an Art Deco style in 1936.
It closed as a cinema on 31st August 1979 with the films 2The Spaceman & King Arthur" + “The Warriors”.
The last time I visited the building, about 5 years ago, it was use as an amusement arcade.