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Rochester
29-08-2008, 10:57 PM
Visited with converse 1 and cocksocket phil d:gay

The Regal Cinema Wakefield, is a beautiful example of the deco-modernist architecture typical of the 1930s. Opened in 1935, the cinema comfortably held 1,700 people and became a very important focal point of the community. Not just providing entertainment, the newsreel, such as Pathe, brought a hitherto unavailable insight to the public through the war years.

Held in such fond memories by many, who could forget the Saturday morning pictures tailored especially for children. The lolly pop ladies of the intermission selling treats to eager young fans of Flash Gordon or The Lone Ranger. You could join the Minors Club and wear your luminous green badge, the dim light easily identifying other members of this childhood elite.

In 1976 the cinema closed briefly for refurbishment and reopened as The ABC. Sadly, it has been closed down for many years and is awaiting redevelopment into flats.

Hints of the bygone grandeur can still be seen with echos of it's glamourous past. Not only entertaining on the silver screen, many live performances of music and operatics were extremely poular.

Currently it is in a very poor state of dereliction and flooding. Time then to bid a fond farewell and consign another cherished memory to history.


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