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Lytton Road Assembly Rooms

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The Regal, New Barnet

The Lytton Road Assembly Rooms were built by E. Fergusson Taylor in New Barnet around 1870.[1]

Film pioneer Birt Acres gave a display of moving pictures to the Lyonsdown Photographic Society there on 10 January 1896.[2][3]

The building became a cinema in 1925[4] and was replaced with a purpose built building in 1926 known as The Hippodrome, the New Barnet Kinema, the New Barnet Picture Theatre, and The Regal from 1933.[5][6] It later became a Mecca bingo hall, a snooker club, and finally a Quazer laser war games centre. It was demolished in 1999 and the flats known as Clivedon Court were built on the site.[4]

References

  1. ^ Eyles, Allen, & Keith Skone. (2002). Cinemas of Hertfordshire. Hatfield: Hertfordshire Publications. ISBN 978-0-9542189-0-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Eyles, Allen; Skone, Keith (2002). Cinemas of Hertfordshire - Allen Eyles, Keith Skone - Google Books. ISBN 9780954218904. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  3. ^ Shail, Robert (2007). British Film Directors: A Critical Guide - Robert Shail - Google Books. ISBN 9780809328338. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  4. ^ a b Regal Cinema. Ken Roe, Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  5. ^ Taylor, Pamela, & Joanna Corden. (1994) Barnet, Edgware, Hadley and Totteridge: A pictorial history. Chichester: Phillimore. Image caption 138. ISBN 0850339189
  6. ^ "Cinemas Update", John Heathfield, Friern Barnet Newsletter, No. 34 (September 2008), pp. 5-7.

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