Phoenix Picture House, Jericho
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Phoenix Picture House, Jericho
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 11 Jul 2020
This cinema on Walton Street dates from 1913 when it opened as the North Oxford Kinema; it later became the Scala. By the 1970s it had been divided into two screens with adult films forming a major part of the programme. However, it experienced a renaissance in 1977 becoming the Phoenix showing art house and foreign language films. In the 1980s it became part of the Picturehouse Cinemas group which passed to Cineworld in 2012 although the brand has been retained. At the time of this photograph, cinemas across the country had not yet reopened following the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.760297
Longitude
-1.266668