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BULLETIN JAN - MAR 2024 - VOL 58 NO 1

Salisbury Visit
Dominion/Granada Acton
Gravesend & Dartford
Post-Covid Cinema Comeback
Hollywood Britain

BULLETIN OCT - DEC 2023 - VOL 57 NO 4


Hyde Park, Leeds
Odeon Portsmouth Demolition
Oxford's Super Cinema
Playhouse Bexhill-on-Sea
1970 Good Cinema Guide
Deborah Kerr

BULLETIN JULY - SEPT 2023 - VOL 57 NO 3

Elain Harwood Tribute

Long Gone Cinemas of Nantwich

1970 Good Cinema Guide - Shepherd's Bush

Colour Films

BULLETIN APRIL - JUNE 2023 - VOL 57 NO 2

Ritz Luton
CTA Visits - Guildhall School of Drama/Barbican Arts
Commodore Liverpool
Editor's Memoirs
1970 Good Cinema Guide
CTA Wessex
Leyton Memories

Bulletin Jan-March 2023 - Vol 57 No 1

Index to Vol 56
CTA Essex/Regent Christmas Cracker
CTA Visit South Kensington
Capitol Cardiff
Projection Box Memories
Cinemas of Altrincham
Odeon Clacton-on-Sea
Royalty Goes to the Pictures


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Bulletin Nov / Dec 2022 - Vol 56 No 6

Colwyn Bay/Cosy Cinema
National Cinema Day
Classic Sheffield
Majestic Aberdeen
Lyme Regis Phoenix/Regent
RMS Queen Mary Cinema
Rewinding Back - Midlands/Liverpool
Scottish Cinema Comparison
Critic's Choice

Bulletin Sept / Oct 2022 - Vol 56 No 5

Scottish Cinema Comparison
Sunny Day at CTA Archive
Tricycle Mysteriously Becomes Kiln (Kilburn)
(1969) Good Cinema Guide
Gaumont/Odeon Preston & Majestic Reigate
ABC Reborn
Plaza Port Talbot
In The News - News Cinemas

Bulletin July / Aug 2022 - Vol 56 No 4

Irish Cinema Comparison
London Pavilion
1970 Good Cinema Guide
Save the Granville Ramsgate
B&B Scottish Cinema Chain
Tivoli Wimborne
Bridport's Palaces
Title Changes

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Bulletin May / Jun 2022 - Vol 56 No 3

Spring Day Out in Mayfair
Tivoli Wimborne Minster
Western Electric Sound Systems
Two East End Super Cinemas
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
The (1969) Good Cinema Guide
Odeon: Preston & Cosham
Gaumont Plymouth
Odeon Oddity: Great Mr Handel

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Bulletin Mar / April 2022 - Vol 56 No 2

The (1970) Good Cinema Guide
The Continual Battle for the State
Gaumont Plymouth
Newton Stewart Cinema
Majestic Theatre, Taihape, New Zealand
Rewinding Back - Second Half 20th Century
Wartime France Goes to the Pictures

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Bulletin Jan / Feb 2022 - Vol 56 No 1

Index to Vol 55
Blackburn Cinemas
Viking Largs
Beginner's Guide to Projection Room
Gartenbaukino Vienna
Hyde Park Picture House Leeds
Coming of Talkies
What's in a Name (Badge)

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Bulletin Nov / Dec 2021 - Vol 55 No 6

Cinema Architecture and Atmosphere
Back to the West End [visit report]
The Ritz Cinema name has gone full circle
ABC Cinemas' Post War House Style
Rink / Gaumont, Smethwick
Drive-In theatre Snipes
Birth of a Star

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Bulletin Sept / Oct 2021 - Vol 55 No 5

Picturedrome/Regal/Odeon, Bath (2)
Embassy Chatham visit 1981
Remodelling Ware Cinema/Astoria
Letters about Names
List of Names
Name Calling ?
Manhatten Movie Memory
Reel Stories
Carlton/Studios Salford

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Bulletin July/August 2021 - Vol 55 No 4

Welsh Casework
Picturedrome/Regal/Odeon, Bath (1)
Wanderings in 2019
Hull National update
Unidentified Cinemas
National Anthem trailers
Life and times of Adela
Magnificent Model Maker
Savoy, Hull

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Bulletin May/June 2021 - Vol 55 No 3

Virtual Talks
Kettering Gaumont
Hull bombed Cinema
What's in a Name ?
The Cinema Names List
Beau Nash Picture House, Bath (2)
Day titles
The Embassy Chesham
Unidentified Cinemas

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2021 - Vol 55 No 2

Virtual Talks
Cinema Statistics
Jack Prendergast Cinemas
A Precarious Profession
My Time at the Regent, Redcar
Beau Nash Picture House, Bath
Wanderings in Ireland

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2021 - Vol 55 No 1

Rewinding Back
Index to Vol 54 [2020]
Collecting Cinema Programmes
Electric Theatre, Bath
Cinema in Lockdown - the Sequel
2020 A Tale of Picturehouses
Odeon Luxe, Holloway

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Bulletin Nov / Dec 2020 - Vol 54 No 6

Lost Cinemas of Adelaide South Australia
Welcome Back Old Friend
Also Full Supporting Music
Single Screen Cinemas
The Grand Ryhope & Beamish Museum
AGM Membership Report

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Bulletin Sept / Oct 2020 - Vol 54 No 5

Behind the Scenes
Channel Islands Cinemas
Nice Name for a Cinema ?
Bingo Closures and Remainers
Lights, Camera, Merton

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Bulletin July/August 2020 - Vol 54 No 4

Two Liverpool Cinemas
Forum Cinema, Ealing - a history and an impression
Decaying Monuments to a Golden Age
Covid-19 Update
The first "Luxury Lounge"

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Bulletin May/June 2020 - Vol 54 No 3

Rex, Elland faces COVID-19
16mm in Cinemas
The week that killed cinemas
Oxford City Centre of Dreams
Cinemas & Theatres of Tower Hamlets

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2020 - Vol 54 No 2

Happy Centenary, Picturedrome
100 years of the King's Cross Cinema
Forgotten Heroes of 1930's Cinema Building
Inside the Gaumont Palace

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2020 - Vol 54 No 1

Rewinding Back
Best of Berks and
Gone to Pieces - visit reports
The Doncaster Frieze
100 Years and Counting
Index to Vol 53 [2019]
Two Liverpool Cinemas

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Bulletin Nov / Dec 2019 - Vol 53 No 6

Hope, Freedom and a Vue
A Sunny Saturday in Surrey - visit reports
ABC Portsmouth
From Tip-ups to Treadmills
Rewinding Back
Majestic Safe
Majestic Postscript
Smallest Museum in Dorset

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Bulletin Sept / Oct 2019 - Vol 53 No 5

Uphill, Downhill and into the Woods
Flicks in Fenland - visit reports
Cinemas and Theatres of Hackney - Update
Rewinding Back
Small Beginnings at Weymouth
My Life in the Entertainment Industry 1
More Trailers

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Bulletin July/August 2019 - Vol 53 No 4

Movie Trailers
Isle of Man Cinemas
Regal Stories
The Paramount Newcastle
The Odeon Exeter

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Bulletin May/June 2019 - Vol 53 No 3

New Screens for Old /
CTA Wessex / East is Best 2 - visit reports
Kingsway Super Cinema Levenshulme
Kent Cinemas
The Capitol, Belfast
The Coliseum, Bath
East Anglian Journey
Archive Move to Rochford

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2019 - Vol 53 No 2

Up the Northern Line
My Year with J Arthur Rank
Plaza/Gaumont Southsea
From Pictures to Pints - International
Vaudeville Electric Theatre, Bath
Index to Vol 52 [2018]
Bognor Finally gets a 4th screen

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2019 - Vol 53 No 1

Berkhamsted Double Bill and
Apollo's Birthday Celebrations plus - visit reports
Oldfield Park Picture House, Bath
Walturdaw - the house of Cinema Knowledge
Margate
Gaumont Palace, Barnstable
Ritz, Burnham-on-Sea

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Bulletin Nov/Dec 2018 - Vol 52 No 6

A Wander Around Warwickshire (visit report)
To Hull and Back - with AGM (visit report)
To the Island - an exploration of Gotland (visit report)
A Cinema of my Own
Even More Wanderings Part 2
The Metropole, Victoria

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Bulletin Sept/Oct 2018 - Vol 52 No 5

Catford and Eltham (visit report)
A Seside Cinema Paradise
Sunday Opening in Skipton
The Bioscope, Harwich Green
The Strand, Belfast
Vera Lynn in Chester
Staffing the Gaumont
Even More Wanderings
Sheerness Cinemas

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Bulletin July/August 2018 - Vol 52 No 4

Rewinding Back
Nostalgia Trip
Newsreel and letters
The Abbey Cinema, Wavertree

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Bulletin May/June 2018 - Vol 52 No 3

Policy and Future of the Archive
The Luxor, Lancing
Cinemas in Art
Palace of Dreams: The Grand Ryhope
Wilf Remembers

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2018 - Vol 52 No 2

The Odeon, Temple Fortune
Memories of the London Palladium - Part 2
Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion
The Orchestra that draws no Salary
Cinemas by Night
Rewinding Back

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2018 - Vol 52 No 1

More Talking Pictures
Scottish Wanderings
From Celluloid to Cereal - Extra Stamps
The Mayfair, Aigburth
Rewinding Back
Index to vols 50 & 51 [2016 & 2017]
Adverts in Theatres
Wilf Wanders West

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Bulletin Nov/Dec 2017 - Vol 51 No 6

CTA's Golden Anniversary continued
Wilf Wonders
The New Talking Films
We Caley Loved It
Yet More Wanderings
From Pictures to Pints - another round
Rewinding Back

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Bulletin Sept/Oct 2017 - Vol 51 No 5

CTA's Golden Anniversary continued
Stereoscopic Cinemas
Leeds Roadshow Cinemas
The J Arthur Rank Organisation
Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy
Happenings in Halifax
Picture Playhouse, Bexhill
Storyhouse, Chester

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Bulletin July/Aug 2017 - Vol 51 No 4

CTA's Golden Anniversary continued
Provincial Cinemas of N Ireland
Premier Cinema, Enfield
North by North East (visit report)
South Wales tour & AGM (visit report)
Wartime Concerts in Cinemas
Scala, Boston
The Building Buffs

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Bulletin May/June 2017 - Vol 51 No 3

CTA's Golden Anniversary continued
Tooting Granada (visit report)
Electric Palace, Harwich, Restoration
More Wanderings
Provincial Cinemas of N Ireland
Everyman, Muswell Hill
Blackburn Cinemas
Wilf Goes into Battle

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2017 - Vol 51 No 2

CTA's Golden Anniversary continued
Anniversary party (report)
The Cinema Organist
Confessions of a Trip Organiser
Porthole to Nowhere
Music Hall Days
Wilf's Tale of 2 Cinemas

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2017 - Vol 51 No 1

CTA's Golden Anniversary
Wilf searches for The Kinema
The Embassy, Chesham
Chester Cinemas that didn't open
Cinemas of Haltwhistle
New Kid on the Block
Wight Cinemas

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Bulletin Nov/Dec 2016 - Vol 50 No 6

Museum at The Regent Christchurch
Cinemas & Theatres of Bologna (CTA visit report)
More Wanderings
Things that Changeover in the Night
New Uses for Old Cinemas

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Bulletin Sept/Oct 2016 - Vol 50 No 5

A Day in Bath (CTA visit report)
Pyramid/Odeon/Tatton cinema, Sale
Kung-Fu - a kick down memory lane
Wilf goes in search of a studio
A Birmingham boy at the pictures
New Theatre, Hull
Rejuvenating Spa breathes new life . . .

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Bulletin July/Aug 2016 - Vol 50 No 4

St Albans AGM and Odyssey (CTA visit reports)
Silver Screen at the Ritz, Belper
Lighting the Odeons
Memories of the Pyramid, Sale
To Kent and Back

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Bulletin May/June 2016 - Vol 50 No 3

Thursday at the London Palladium/West End Welcome/Victoria Palace (CTA visit reports)
Two New Zealand Cinemas
Wilf Goes in Search of a Bijou
Yet More Wonderings - part 2
Devastation at Lyme Regis

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2016 - Vol 50 No 2

Review of Members' Slide Show
Index to Bulletin vol. 49 [2015]
Yet More Wonderings - 1
Memories of a Projectionist
Cinema-going in My Ilkeston
A London Palladium Story

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2016 - Vol 50 No 1

Assorted Bournemouth Cinemas - CTA visit report
The Palace, Warrington
Stanford Hall Theatre
Union Entertainment
Newsreel, Cinema Business, Letters
Jaws at 40

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Bulletin Nov/Dec 2015 - Vol 49 No 6

Just the Ticket
Even More Wanderings
The Ritz, Tunbridge Wells
The Dome, Worthing - an update
Another bumper Newsreel
and more holiday snaps !

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Bulletin Sept/Oct 2015 - Vol 49 No 5

Wandering to Winchester (CTA visit report)
John D Clark - a tribute
A bumper Newsreel
and many holiday snaps !

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Bulletin July/Aug 2015 - Vol 49 No 4

The Regent Street Cinema
The Little Theatre, Bath 2
A Return to the Valleys
Talkies come to Burnley
Revisiting Malta's Cinema Heritage
The Ritz Wallsend

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Bulletin May/June 2015 - Vol 49 No 3

The State/Granada Dartford
Further Wanderings 2
The First Odeon Enthusiast
The Little Theatre, Bath 1
My Little Cinema Reborn
Northern Light cinema, Wirksworth

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Bulletin Mar/Apr 2015 - Vol 49 No 2

Members' Slide Show
Uxbridge & Hayes (CTA visit report)
Further Wanderings 1
Kino Cinema, Rye

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Bulletin Jan/Feb 2015 - Vol 49 No 1

Index to Vol.48 (2014)
Forum cinema, Newbury - part 2
Islington Inspections (CTA visit report)
Not for the Ritz (CTA visit report)
Belfast ... and Beyond (CTA visit report)
The Bijou, Mablethorpe
BBFC

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