Date:1953
Description:Photograph showing Odeon Cinema advertising the film 'A Folly to be Wise', directed by Frank Launder, starring Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allen, Ronald Culver, Edward Chapman and Martita Hunt. Odeon Cinema on the corner of the Green and Newport Road, which was opened by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury in 1936. The opening gala was concluded with a showing of Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times'. The cinema was sold in 1981 and it became The Astra, but now belongs to Apollo Cinemas.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
Stafford's library was housed in the Borough Hall until 1914. The new library building ...
Lorry float decorated to promote films of the week showing at the Odeon Cinema in ...
Regulars and staff pictured in the Grapes public house, on the corner of Newport ...
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Image courtesy of: Mrs Caris Catchpole
Donor ref:C.Catchpole-013 (55/27345)
Source: Miscellaneous Collection
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