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ELECTRIC DREAM IS OVER

Daily Star

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March 02, 2024

BRITAIN’S oldest working cinema has closed after 115 years and now faces being demolished and turned into flats. 

ELECTRIC DREAM IS OVER

The Electric Cinema opened in 1909 – showing silent films with a piano backing – after being built out of a converted taxi rank.

Businessman Kevin Markwick stepped in to save the Art Deco picture house in the pandemic after its future was thrown into doubt.

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