MOVIE PALACES #87 - GAUMONT CHIPPENHAM WILTSHIRE - 1936
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Movie Palaces #87 - The GAUMONT, Timber Street, CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire
was a development by GAUMONT/ALBANY WARD-PCT.
Architects W. E. Trent and W. Sidney Trent.
Opened November 1936 with 1061 seats.
Video uploaded by ComptonLodgeStudios,
Compton Lodge, Sapcote Road, Sapcote, Leicester.
1936 was a good time in cinema building when architects know how to build cinemas worthy of their name. True art deco styling at its very best . Gaumont knew how to make them feel like cinemas too unlike today's cinema business which is all about money and not what customers want ..
Thanks Derek, The Gaumont chain built some very nice cinemas, PAUL.
Saturday morning cinema great times never forget.
Thanks Nick, PAUL.
Another beautiful and lost building
I remember the whole of the Boys High School (1,000+) from Hardenhuish Lane site to Timber Street for the school Christmas Treat of watching 'The Train' (B/W 1964). The school took the whole cinema over. Also watching Live and Let Die (1973) on its first run (and staying in to watch it a second time). The cig machine on the outside wall where - as kids, you could buy 10 embassy without worry to take inside. Being thrown out for chucking wine gums over the balcony into the stalls and seeing Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time (the soundtrack LP always reminds me of the ambiance).
Later it became Goldiggers night club (all I recall is Cameo - Word Up at ear bleeding volume). Then flats in which my mother in law spent some of her last years.
Happy Days and Cherished Memories Cliffs! Thank You for sharing - PAUL at ComptonLodgeStudios.
Saturday morning, all local kids went to the show. greeting everybody with a smile. then called out on stage if it was your Birthday.
Hi Briddy, Thanks for commenting - PAUL.
The building was demolished in January 2005 and replace by shops and apartments. The 3 friezes, depicting the Spirit of Cinema, with her attendants of Sound and Light, were incorporated into the facade of the new building. For more info search for "golden days ends in dust goldiggers chippenham"
Hi Alan - Thanks so much for the additional onformation, I'll check out "golden days.....". Many thanks once again - PAUL.
when the film was over I was the paper boy on a saturday night selling the pink un. selling about 160 copies, the bristol pink and the bath green un. I went home about 8ish.
Happy Days! Briddy - PAUL.