Looking from the circle in the Scala Cinema, towards a man on the stage playing a 3 manual Conacher theatre organ

Date:
1980 - 1993
Location:
Scala Cinema, Corporation Street, Rotherham
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Ritz Bingo Club, Coporation Street, Rotherham
Reference:
NWC01/01/1103
Type:
Photograph (35mm Slide)
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Description

This cinema building was designed by the architects Blackmore and Sykes, opening in 1934 under the name of the Regal Cinema. It was renamed the Scala Cinema in the 1970s and closed in 1983. It subsequently became a bingo hall named the Ritz. The theatre organ was removed from the cinema in 1993.

Content

This is part of the Series: NWC01/01 Norman Walley: Series of slides; within the Collection: NWC01 Norman Walley Cinema Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Walley, Norman: Blackmore And Sykes

Keywords

Organ, Mid 20th Century Cinema, Music And Dance