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Perfidious Albion

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Haddington Street ,Hove …. Off Blatchington Road. C1920 , people queuing for a silent film

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The Empire was evidently popular but could not compete when the “talkies” came in . It closed in the 1930s . Today there is this . The cinema was where the blank wall is …

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The Antikythera Mechanism

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Perfidious Albion said:
Haddington Street ,Hove …. Off Blatchington Road. C1920 , people queuing for a silent film

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The Empire was evidently popular but could not compete when the “talkies” came in . It closed in the 1930s . Today there is this . The cinema was where the blank wall is …

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The Empire Cinema, 1a Haddington St, Hove. When the cinema closed in 1932, my Grandad bought it and he, my Nan, Mum and her brothers and sisters lived there.
 


Zeberdi

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The Antikythera Mechanism said:
The Empire Cinema, 1a Haddington St, Hove. When the cinema closed in 1932, my Grandad bought it and he, my Nan, Mum and her brothers and sisters lived there.
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Does 1a still exist?

This is the back of the gym on the left then the terrace starts at No 3. I often took a short cut down Haddington St to get to the Stirling Arms (my local) but never noticed the house numbers until looking on GE just now.

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Jack Straw

Jack Straw

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Jul 7, 2003
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Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!


Jack Straw

Jack Straw

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Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!
Weststander said:
It was. SS Brighton became an Odeon.
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I was taken to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on ice there, around 1960. I was just 4 years old. The dwarves were taller than me!
 






Weststander

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Jack Straw said:
I was taken to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on ice there, around 1960. I was just 4 years old. The dwarves were taller than me!
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I saw that 7 years later at The Regent (the Disney 7 years cycle), the first movie I can kinda remember, age 2 or 3.

We went to that old Odeon in 1970 to see The Aristocats.
 












thedonkeycentrehalf

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"The workmen eventually succeeded in shoring up her gaping gable end" - there is an euphemism you don't hear very often!
 




Weststander

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Driver8 said:
Slightly off topic but seems best place to post today’s BBC Archive post.



Today

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To the west of that, I think was Fiat dealer's Tilley’s, the site later became Oakley who sold high end Volva Penta powerboat engines. Dull information for the day :smile:.
 




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