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Buckley Society Magazine Issue Six: The Palace Picture House by Neil Cropper: Advert for The Palac"

Palace Cinema, Chester Road, Buckley

April 1921

The following extracts were taken from the Kinematograph Year Books from the 1930s to the 1960s, with one example from each decade. See under the same author at 28.75 for the Tivoli entries

 

Kinematograph Year Book 1937

 

Buckley. Pop. 6,000

 

Palace (BA sound) -Prop., Cropper and Sons. 400 seats. Res and Booking Manager, T.N. Cropper. One show nightly, two on Saturday. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d to 1 shilling. Phone Buckley 34. Stations: Buckley Junction, L.N.E.R., and Padeswood and Buckley, L.M.S.

 

Kinematograph Year Book 1947.

 

Buckley. Pop. 6,500.

 

Palace (BA)- Prop., J. Jervis. 400 seats. Res and Booking Manager, T. N.

Cropper. One show nightly, two on Saturday. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d to 1 shilling. Phone Buckley 34. Stations: Buckley Junction L.N.E.R. and Padeswood and Buckley, L.M.S.

 

Kinematograph Year Book 1959.

 

Buckley .Pop. 7,543.

 

Palace (GB-Kalee)- Phone Buckley 309. Prop. J. Robinson. 331 seats. Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, two shows, Tues, Thurs, one show. Continuous. Three changes weekly. Prices 9d to Is 6d. Booked at Chester Road Palace Cinema. Proscenium width 19ft. Screen 14ft. Station: Buckley Junction.

 

Kinematograph Year Book 1962.

 

Buckley. Pop. 7,543.

 

Palace (GB-Kalee)- Phone Buckley 309. Prop. Mrs. E. T. Roberts. Station: Buckley Junction.

 

 

 

 

 

Author: McAllister, David

Tags

Year = 1921

Month = April

Building = Commercial

Document = Ephemera

Work = Other

Extra = Entertainment

Extra = 1920s

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