Gem Picture House

• Theatre ID
  1879
• Built / Converted
  1910
• Dates of use
  • : Not actually a theatre
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Bingo
• Address
  New Road, Gravesend, Kent, England

Details

Opened as a cinema, but design has a strong theatrical flavour. Recessed arched entrance from New Road. The building is well to the rear of this, occupying a site on a corner of Barrack Row, from which it can be seen to have an octagonal roof, rather suggestive of a cattle auction ring. It has a pleasant auditorium with a single balcony and looks as if it might make a tolerable playhouse, but the stage is very small and the site gives little scope for enlargement.

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• Other names
  Regal, Coral Bingo, Gala Bingo
• Events
  • Use: Not actually a theatre
  • Owner/Management: Later: Gala Bingo
  • 1910 Design/Construction:
    • Charles Lovell - Architect
  • 1910 Owner/Management: Gem Picture House
  • 1931 Owner/Management: Gem Theatre Co
  • 1933 Owner/Management: Union Cinemas
  • 1968 Alteration: converted to bingo
    • Unknown - Architect
  • 1968 Owner/Management: EMI
• Capacities
  • Original: 1080
  • Current: est. 600
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed