Whiteladies Picture House
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Whiteladies Picture House by Derek Harper as part of the Geograph project.
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Whiteladies Picture House
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 13 Jul 2013
Also shown in Image The cinema was built in 1920-1 with a ballroom and restaurant, on the site of a nunnery, and the description at http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1245430&searchtype=mapsearch includes details of the "striking" tower, with "mushroom shaped piercing" in the belfry-like octagon, plus dome, cupola and finial. A website explains the ambitions of a group campaigning to reopen the picture house as an arts centre https://web.archive.org/web/20131207205517/http://www.whiteladies-picturehouse.com/ (one event taking place elsewhere on the day this was taken) and also gives a very thorough history https://web.archive.org/web/20130701043323/http://www.whiteladies-picturehouse.com/history/ . NB: (2016) I have changed the links as the originals have expired.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.462937
Longitude
-2.609272