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The Regal auditorium with the lights low. Twelve burgundy velvet recliners in three stepped tiers of four, with small bronze side tables between pairs and bronze handrails along the tiers. Midnight navy walls behind slim fluted walnut panels, stepped bronze Deco sconces washing up them, a stepped ceiling cove with a warm hidden line of light, and a burgundy velvet curtain drawn back from a wide blank screen. Charcoal carpet with a faint fan pattern and small step lights.

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The Regal

12-seat cinema. 1930s Art Deco, south side.

The card

shops 14 of 19

The Regal

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The notes

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What it really is 12-seat cinema
Front 1930s Art Deco
Side South, number 14 of 19 walking the street clockwise from the north-west
Frontage 8 m
Floor area about 137 m², from the model, including the corner room

One of the six heroes, a 1930s Art Deco picture house: stepped cream faience fins up the front, a black vitrolite plinth, a red REGAL blade sign, a marquee with chaser bulbs and NOW SHOWING, a ticket booth in the lobby and lit poster cases. It has no canopy, so the marquee carries the front. The auditorium behind turns the corner into the south-west.

The room behind it has its own page under behind the fronts: The Regal auditorium, 1930s Art Deco, restrained.

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The Regal auditorium with the lights low. Twelve burgundy velvet recliners in three stepped tiers of four, with small bronze side tables between pairs and bronze handrails along the tiers. Midnight navy walls behind slim fluted walnut panels, stepped bronze Deco sconces washing up them, a stepped ceiling cove with a warm hidden line of light, and a burgundy velvet curtain drawn back from a wide blank screen. Charcoal carpet with a faint fan pattern and small step lights.
01 · The Regal auditorium with the lights low
The Regal at dusk, close up. A cream Art Deco front with fluted fins and a black plinth, a tall red REGAL blade sign, a black marquee reading NOW SHOWING under a row of chaser bulbs, a round glass ticket booth in the lobby and lit poster cases. Blockbuster's blue sign and the red phone box are at the left edge, and Our Price's black fascia with records in the window is on the right. Wet paving, a slim black lamp post and the limestone grid of the upper floor above.
02 · The Regal at dusk
The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun. Left to right: Ashworth Ironmongers on the corner, Texas Homecare with a red fascia and a part-closed roller shutter, Ironside Boxing Club showing a boxing ring through the window, the narrow fronts of Fletcher's Range and Midland Bank with a bracket clock, Blockbuster's blue sign, the red phone box, The Regal's marquee and blade sign, and Our Price on the far corner. Three slate roofs step above the limestone upper floor, with a chimney.
03 · The south side straight on from above the courtyard in autumn sun