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Welcome to the website dedicated to the now disused former Granada cinema in Hove, East Sussex, to the west of Brighton. This art deco Cinema was opened in the 1930s as a Granada Theatre, and showed films up until 1974, when it was acquired by Ladbrokes and re-opened as a bingo hall. The old cinema was thus granted a new lease of life, and stayed open as a bingo club, latterly run by the Gala Group, until it was closed in the summer of 2003. This website includes both a history of the building, located at 193 Portland Road, and a large number of photographs taken around the time of closure. Parts of the cinema had by then changed out of all recognition, while other areas, namely the circle seemes to almost have been trapped in a thirties time warp.

This website is in no way affiliated with The Gala Group. The photos herein were all taken between August 29th and September 2nd 2003. should you have any stories, memories, photographs or memorobilia, you can contact me at granada "at" 74simon.co.uk.

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