Picture House

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Picture House 2021

Cecil Clavering- Odeon Architect.
Hailsham Pavilion at 100
Working for Star
Focus Sevenoaks 1977-79

Picture House 2020

Classic Repertory Cinemas
Blackpool Cinemas
Thomas Jackson
Bernard Snowball’s working life

Picture House 2019

Village Cinemas in Banchory and Around
William Keys career
Bernard Snowball’s working life

Picture House 2018

Virgin Cinemas
Picture House Campbeltown
Peter Jewett’s ABC Memories
Scala Kings Cross

Picture House 2017

Odeon, Elephant & Castle
Plaza Crosby
Depot Lewes
Gaumont Sheffield Attendances
John Duffin Paintings
Commissionaires and Usherettes.

Picture House 2016

50th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
50 Years On & In the Beginning / Running the CTA / A Case for Casework / Moving The Archive / Publications / Our Cinema and Theatre visits / Our Membership
Plaza Stockport: a Success Story
The Salvation of the Grosvenor Rayners Lane
Pascal J. Stienlet - architect

Picture House 2015

Tolmer Cinema
Worst cinema in Soho
Michael Stringer memories
West End Cinema Photos
Granada Man - Steve Waddingham
WW2 at the Savoy, Northampton
Will Onda and James Atroy
Stafford Entertainments

Picture House 2014

World War One and the Film Trade
Films at the Royal Albert Hall
Being there: A Child of the Cinema
Many Lives of Majestic Oxford
Casework: Regals at Bridlington and Sunderland
Memories of Odeon, North Finchley

Picture House 2013

Verity's Survivor - Carlton, Haymarket
Northern Morris Associated
Cinema Murders
Point of Appeal
Cinemas serving the Military
My Start with Granada

Picture House 2012

Special Presentation

• Saving the Electric Palace, Harwich

Picture House 2011

• Lesley Kemp
• Sidney Clift
• Being There: Brighton
• Circuit Releases 1960

Picture House 2010

• The 1909 Cinematograph Act
• Imitations of Odeon
• Royal Records of Cradley Heath
• Holophane and the Golden Age of Colour Lighting

Picture House 2009

• The Beaufort Birmingham
• The Granada Tooting in 1934
• J Braddon´s Cinema Life
• Rank, Scotland, The Postwar Years

Picture House 2008

• Theodore Komisarjevsky
• Circuit and Other Releases of 1956
• Worth Saving? The Case for the New Victoria Bradford

Picture House 2007

• Photographs from Harry Myers
• Cinema at the Coalface
• Shaws of Darwen
• Edward A.Stone

Picture House 2006

• A Family Business: Sol Sheckman And The Essoldo Circuit
• All The Essoldo and Sol Sheckman Cinemas

Picture House 2005

• The Autobiographical Notes of Alfred David, Showman
• The Last Days of the Davis
• The Hills are alive in East Anglia: the Sound of Music comes to Norwich
• The Wanderer Returns (Gaumont Palace, Hammersmith's organ)

Picture House 2004

• Cinerama in Britain
• Being There: the boom years
• Built by Braziers
• Waller Jeff's Scrapbook
• Bright Lights and Long Shadows (cinema images by John Duffin)

Picture House 2003

• The Picture House/Torbay Cinema, Paignton
• Tabs
• James McKissack, architect
• Clark & Fenn: more interiors
• Major W J King
• English Multiplexes: best exteriors

Picture House 2002

• Hands off the Whiteladies
• The Mermaid's Palace: Renovating the New/Apollo, Victoria
• Clark & Fenn in the 1930's
• When Exhibitors saw Scarlett: The War over Gone with the Wind
• Being there: the 1940's
• John Compton, Organ Manufacturer
• A Chronology of Compton Theatre Organs
• Tim Foster Architects

Picture House 2001

• The Paramount, Newcastle upon Tyne
• A Granada Man
• E. de Wilde Holding (Wessex architect)
• Two years at the Rivoli
• Truth, myth and Supposition at the Electric
• The Astoria, Finsbury Park and Edward Albert Stone

Picture House 2000

• F E Bromige - Cinema Architect
• The Oldest Cinema?
• The Carlton Cinema, Swansea - the very best bookshop in Wales
• Two Gaumont Managers: David Goodman & Albert Watts

Picture House 1999

• The Oldest Cinema: The Haringey Contender
• Gaumont, Holloway: The full glory
• Bill Penney's Cardiff cinema round-up
• When management was fun - Classic moments
• Preservation Matters
• An Odeon miscellany (1949 frontages)

Picture House 1997

• Pictures at the Palace (Theatre)
• Alight in the dark: Pearce Signs
• Alone in the Dark
• Re-inventing Cinemas - the work of Burrell Foley Fischer
• Images form the Daily Herald archive
• David Nye: cinema architect
• Jimmy Nairn: a life in pictures

Picture House 1996

• 100 years on: celebrating the first film show
• Travelling shows and the first static cinemas
• Geggies, Empires, Cinemas
• Reggie Rea: Sheffield's Daredevil Showman
• About the Albert Hall, Sheffield
• Art of West End advertising
• Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE
• The Regal, Wells: The inside story

Picture House 1993

• The people's cinemas: picture houses of the Co-operative movement
• The Ideal, Lambeth: an experiment in a church cinema
• Night out for Ninepence: picture-going in Dursley
• The cinemas of Alistair Macdonald
• Great Granada the pride of Tooting

Picture House 1992

• The cinemas of Sidney Colwyn Foulkes
• United Picture Theatres: the Cinderella circuit
• Project Tivoli: a Wimborne affair
• Remember this? The Bijou, Sloughborough

Picture House 1991

• The cinemas of George Coles: pictures from his personal albums

Picture House 1990/91

• Remembering John Squires
• 3000 Plus
• Circuit release of 1953
• Where space matters
• The Dominion Theatre, London
• The wide screen - and after (Leeds & Huddersfield)

Picture House 1990

• The dream lands of Julian Leathart
• The cinema at Burgess Hill
• Clitheroe's Civic Hall cinema
• Saving our cinema heritage
• March of the Multiplexes
• Miles Jervis - Showman
• Note on Joseph T Mears and the Mears circuit
• Facing the Fifties

Picture House 1988

• Eric Rhodes: Mr. Classic
• With ABC in Scotland
• The cinemas of Cambridge
• The film trade in Leeds
• Llanelli's Golden Jubilee

Picture House 1987

• When I was the cinema king - Montagu Pyke
• The Pyke circuit
• Regent, Brighton
• The Theatre Organ
• The talkie revolution
• The shoestring circuit - Shipman & King

Picture House 1986

• Sol Levy: Midlands pioneer
• Front-line Folkestone
• Reginald W Cooper of Nottingham
• ABC in Northwest London

Picture House 1985

• Television in the Cinema,
• Atherley Southampton,
• Hippodrome Blackpool.