The Paris Cinema

glasfryn

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somewhere in Eastbourne

• Sep 12, 2013

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it was in New road Brighton
anyone remember it ??

 

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smiler

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Shoreham by Sea

• Sep 12, 2013

• #2

Yes but never went in it

 

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Gwylan

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Uffern

• Sep 13, 2013

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Blimey, it closed in 1957 - I'm an old git and I don't remember it at all.

I'm more intrigued by the People's Picture Palace, which is now the Labour Club on Lewes Road, I find it really hard to imagine a cinema there. And why was it known as The Scratch?

 

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sams dad

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• Sep 13, 2013

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Gwylan said:

..... And why was it known as The Scratch?

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Because it was a flea-pit ?

 

glasfryn

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sams dad said:

Because it was a flea-pit ?

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once and that was enough
Rothbury in Portslade was nearly as bad, Continental, in Kemp town had wooden seats
the Paris was quite plush from what I remember

 

tinycowboy

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• Sep 13, 2013

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glasfryn said:

Continental, in Kemp town had wooden seats

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As a young lad, I never failed to check the adverts in the Argus for what was showing at the Continental. My mind was boggling....

Incidentally, my brother did a school project on old Brighton cinemas. I remember he was particularly keen on the Kinema? Might be before anyone's time...

 

glasfryn

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I have just looked at the list of all cinema's in the Brighton area and there are dozens I had never heard of
but then it was the birthplace of moving pictures so only right really

 

WATFORD zero

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• Sep 13, 2013

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glasfryn said:

I have just looked at the list of all cinema's in the Brighton area and there are dozens I had never heard of
but then it was the birthplace of moving pictures so only right really

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Pedant alert ! St Anne's well gardens, Hove to be precise

 

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• Sep 13, 2013

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I remember going to The Gaiety on saturday mornings where the gyratory in Lewes Road is now. Remember it being quite rowdy in there.

 

glasfryn

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Canonman said:

I remember going to The Gaiety on saturday mornings where the gyratory in Lewes Road is now. Remember it being quite rowdy in there.

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depends on when it was we used to go there quite a lot for Saturday morning pictures, we only got rowdy when Tarzan escaped the huge rock/log croc/elephant after being crushed to death the week before