The Old Gaiety
Introduction
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The Old Gaiety
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 19 Jun 2018
Former cinema, The Gaiety, at 109 Irsha Street, converted to flats around 2010. It was originally a chapel (marked on the 1904 1:2,500 map as a "public hall"), and was converted to a cinema around 1920, subsequently closing around the 1950s. The capstones above the doors read HRV and 1893, the latter being the original building date. Irsha was once a hamlet separate from Appledore itself, with Irsha Street running the length of it. The houses date mainly from the 19th Century, but there are some earlier buildings.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.056342
Longitude
-4.19436