Palace Cinema Broadstairs

Formerly York Gate Hall It is just up the hill from the York Gate built by George Culmer in 1540. This cinema once held the armour collection of Sir Guy Laking. (Eminent armour expert, and son of the physician to King Edward VII), He holidayed next door at York Gate House, and adapted the hall to display his armour collection. He died soon afterwards and after his death in 1919, Broadstairs Town Council bought the building and swapped its use from storing armour to storing beach equipment!!
Before its rejuvenation into a cinema, the hall was let out for puppet shows during the 1950s and 60s.
But following the closure of other Broadstairs Cinema’s, it was converted to the 155-seat Windsor Cinema in 1965 and became a Grade II listed building in 1974.
Since then, the now 111-seat cinema has seen multiple owners and refurbishments.
At one stage it featured an illuminated cinema organ, before becoming the Palace Cinema in 2016.
It still survives today showing all new films in this small flint fronted building constructed in 1911 and uses the latest digital technology. The owners are carrying out research into the buildings history.



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