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Cosy Cinema
replied on: 2/22/2006 9:10:57 AM

Ripley & Heanor News
3rd March 1922
“Cosy” cinema opened
Heanor’s new picture house was formally opened on Monday evening, in the presence of a well-filled building, the company present by special invitation being drawn mainly from Heanor and the several parishes abutting on all sides, and from Ripley and Eastwood.
Although still in the hands of the builders for completion, sufficient can be seen of the venture to realise that the new Cinema House, styled the “Cosy Cinema”, will do credit to the architectural beauty of the town, and will figure prominently in the social life of the townspeople. Indeed, it should form an attraction in a much wider field. Standing in a position of great prominence on the south side of and facing the Market Place, with exits into Mundy Street, in no way does the new amusement house belie its name. Commodious and well apportioned, the nominal seating accommodation of the theatre is 600 on the ground floor and 250 in the balcony. From front the rear downstairs the seating has been carried out in red plush tip-up seats, and the balcony seats are upholstered in old gold plush. Everything has been carried out on up-to-date lines, and regardless of expense in such essentials as effective lighting and heating and ventilation. The artistically panelled walls and ceiling of the theatre complete a generally pleasing effect to the eye, and adds to the cosiness and cheerfulness of the place. The balcony is approached by means of stone staircases on either side of the main entrance and at the halfway stage accommodation has been provided under the balcony for a buffet and billiard room large enough to hold two tables, but the completion of these is to be a thing of the near future.

Cosy Cinema Mr Burrows
Manager – Mr. H. H. Buxton
Architect – Mr. Toms of Messrs Bright and Toms of Nottingham
Contractors Messrs Stapleton and sons of Ilkeston
Councillor Bradley declared the cinema open
Charles Chaplin in “The Idle Class” showing all week.

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