cinemas
Rathbone Cinema
Canning Town Cinema Hall
Cinema-going was extremely popular throughout the twenties and thirties, with people going two or three times a week to enjoy the glamour of Hollywood and the plush interiors of the cinemas. Canning Town actually had one of the first purpose-built cinemas, opened in 1909 in Rathbone Street.
Curfew House, Stratford
88 Church Street Stratford. This Building has a very interesting billboard outside, with an advert for Brook Bond dividend tea, Players cigarettes and a Broadway Cinema Stratford poster for 'Go West Young Man' 1936 film starring Mae West, Randolf Scott & Warren Williams and 'Fugitive In The Sky' starring Jean Muir & Warren Hull. It has a round sign for essolube hanging from it and a Post Office telephone workmen cart just behind it.
Photo 3/6/1937. Newham Heritage & Archives Ref 29/3/10 AH34
Wrestling at Granada East Ham
A poster advertising wrestling at the Granada Barking Road East Ham on Thursday 31 October 1968. London versus The Rest. The Granada East Ham was a well Known entertainment venue. The Granada is now a Bingo Hall.
Copy of a poster owned by K.Taylor
Broadway Cinema, Stratford
Broadway Cinema , Tramway Avenue E15, was opened in 1927 and closed by bombing 1940-41. It became the Gaumont in 1948 and closed 1960.
Carlton Cinema, 1931
Carlton Cinema stood in Green Street. It was built in 1927 on the site of the old St-George's-in-the-East industrial school and was built in an exotic "Egyptian" style using decorative tiles. It stood until the 1980s, when it was demolished. For a time it was called the ABC Cinema. The rear of the site is now a car park although there are still shops along the Green Street frontage.
New Imperial Cinema
The New Imperial Cinema proclaimed itself as Canning Town's brightest spot in the 1950s.
Broadway Cinema, 1944
The Broadway Cinema which opened in 1913 was on High Street South between Rancliffe Road and Mitcham Road. This rare photo of the Broadway which can be seen through the bombed-out ruins of the White Horse pub.
From the Thompson collection of glass negatives of East Ham War damage. In Newham Heritage and Archives.
Carlton Cinema
The Carlton Cinema, Green Street, advertising ‘Jack Hylton'. A stage appearance by this famous band, between the usual film programme.
From the collection of Newham Heritage & Archives.
Broadway Cinema
The intermission. The Broadway Cinema, Stratford, was an enormous building, reflecting the mass appeal of films.
Plaza Cinema
A small cinema in Stratford Broadway illuminated with newly arrived neon lighting.
From the collection of Newham Heritage & Archives.
