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HOVE’S PIONEERING CINEMAS – THE TWO EMPIRES

The other Empire was not far away, in Haddington Street. This was Hove’s first cinema, opened on 10 December 1910 by Mr H E Scriven, a young man then still in his teens, who had been the first operator at the Arcadia Cinema, Lewes Road, in the preceding year. This was a two-storey building, which fronted Blatchington Road, and it was adapted to a cinema with a balcony by the simple process of cutting away part of the floor of the top storey.

Image Reference: JG_14_147.tif
Date: 1929
Image Details: Original monochrome print
Size of Original: 134x101
Place: Hove
Additional Information: Films"The Cavalier and "The Power of Silence" advertised. Both made in 1928.

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