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CINEMAS

PICTURE HOUSE

Updated:  04 September 2011 

Plans for the conversion of premises at 19 George Street were approved in September 1917 after much wrangling.  A licence was finally granted on April 24th 1918 and Mr Sydney George Boultwood must have opened his new cinema, called the Picture House, immediately because he was advertising the following day.  "Hearts Adrift" was to be shown daily from 2.30pm in 2¼ hours of entertainment 'presented amidst surroundings of comfort and refinement'. Prices were 6d, 1s and 1/6d plus tax.

In 1921 Mr Boultwood applied for permission to erect a circle in the Picture House.  This was approved but it seems unlikely that it was ever built as on Wednesday May 3rd 1922 the cinema closed, the final film being a rather old one, the 1916 6-reel "Poor Little Peppina" starring Mary Pickford and Eugene O'Brien.

The premises became a branch of Montague Burton's the tailors together with a billiard hall.

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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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