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.