Bowness Cinema
by Maggie Mccall
Title
Bowness Cinema
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Maggie Mccall
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Photograph - Photograph
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A wonderful old cinema in Bowness on Windermere. Old fashioned, with even the old style interval with ice-cream ladies coming around. A real gem of a place should you wish to see a film whilst in Bowness. The Royalty cinema at Bowness started life in 1927. The Royalty was built by public subscription and opened as the Public Hall. It was designed to provide silent cinema, theatre and dance facilities. The flat maple floor of the stalls had seats in groups of three or four which could be moved into the basement when dances were held.
The hall was opened in March 1927 and the first film was The Wanderer. The building was controlled by the Windermere Public Hall and Cinema Limited and around 1930 was renamed as the Royalty and came under the control of Windermere and Ambleside Cinemas – which also had the Windermere cinema. The Royalty now has three screens.
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March 24th, 2020
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