Exterior view of the Cinematograph Theatre at 269 Seven Sisters Road, showing posters advertising the latest films and a newspaper vendor standing outside a tobacconist shop next door

Date:
15 Mar 1915
Location:
Cinematograph Theatre, 269 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, Haringey, Greater London Authority, N4
Reference:
BL22928
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The cinema was opened in 1909 by cinema entrepreneur Montagu Pyke. The building is one of eight cinemas photographed for United Electric Theatres Ltd., although the Kelly directory of 1915 lists Amalgamated Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. at this address. The vendor in the image is carrying a poster announcing the shelling of the Dardanelles forts.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Jwc: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Early 20th Century Cinema, First World War