The Compton organ console, probably while it was installed in the ABC Cinema, Plymouth

Date:
1976 - 2006
Location:
ABC Cinema, Derry's Cross, Plymouth, City of Plymouth
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Reference:
NWC01/01/1369
Type:
Photograph (35mm Slide)
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Description

The cinema opened as the Royal Cinema in 1938 and was renamed the ABC Cinema in 1958. The cinema had a 3 manual, 8 rank Compton organ, with Dudley Savage as the cinema's organist. The auditorium was divided into a bingo hall and cinema in 1977; the organ was removed to Blackheath Halls, London in 2006. The date of this photograph is not known; it is likely that it shows the organ while it was still installed in the cinema, at a time when stalls section of the auditorium was being used as a bingo hall.

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

Keywords

Organ, Mid 20th Century Cinema, Music And Dance