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National Picture Theatre
National Picture Theatre in England Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Bernard Sharp — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Limited wheelchair access
About
National Picture Theatre is a cinema or movie theatre in England Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Britain's listed cinemas span Edwardian picture palaces, Art Deco super-cinemas of the 1930s, and the surviving independent neighbourhood houses.
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From the Wikipedia article
The National Picture Theatre on Beverley Road in Kingston upon Hull, England, was a cinema which was built in 1914. During the Second World War, the cinema was bombed and mostly destroyed when an air raid took place on the night of 18 March 1941. A film had been showing at the time of the bombing, which was Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. All 150 people in the cinema at the time escaped and there were no casualties. The interior of the building was completely destroyed but the facade somehow escaped the blast. It still remains to this day alongside fragments of the foyer and vestibule behind it. The cinema is the last remaining civilian bomb ruin still in existence and was Grade II listed in January 2007.
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Background
Description
The National Civilian WW2 Memorial Trust (NCWW2MT) is a registered charity with the aim of preserving and restoring the National Picture Theatre in Kingston upon Hull, England. As a result of the cinema being derelict since the Second World War, The National Civilian WW2 Memorial Trust were formed to <nowiki/>'establish the National Picture Theatre ruins and site as a National Home Front tribute, to be a place of education, history and remembrance, to honour the civilians who lived and worked through the Blitz not only in Kingston upon Hull but across the whole nation.<nowiki/>' The Trust was officially registered with The Charity Commission on 4 October 2012 with the current chairman being…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.7547, -0.3478
- District
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Parish
- Kingston upon Hull, City of, unparished area
- Postcode
- HU3 1UX
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
- Established
- 1914
Sources
- wikidata: Q26671192 (CC0)
- wikipedia: National Picture Theatre, Kingston upon Hull (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is National Picture Theatre?
- National Picture Theatre is in Yorkshire, United Kingdom (postcode HU3 1UX), in the parish of Kingston upon Hull, City of, unparished area.
- When was National Picture Theatre built?
- Built or established in 1914.
- Who owns National Picture Theatre?
- National Picture Theatre is owned by | height =.
- How do I get to National Picture Theatre?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode HU3 1UX. It sits within the Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham parliamentary constituency.