The Radion Cinema
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The Radion Cinema
Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 3 Jul 2011
Now home to BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Mirror Image hair & beauty and Jackson's dry cleaners on Newport. The Radion cinema by architect W.J.King, was the last Lincoln cinema built before the war opening on March 27th 1939 with all 850 seats occupied to watch Barry K. Barnes and Valerie Hobson in 'This Man is News' and Gracie Fields in 'We’re Going to be Rich'. It closed as a cinema in July 1960 and after a spell as a supermarket, BBC Lincolnshire opened in November 1980
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Image Location
Latitude
53.238038
Longitude
-0.538182