Redstar

Following on from the lost cinemas thread has anyone got any suggestions for Britain's most unusual cinema?

Steve Crook

I'll open the nominations with the courtyard of Somerset House in London with the audience (of up to 2,000 people) sitting around in the courtyard and the film projected onto a screen about 3 stories high.

Of course it can only be used on a summer's evening. But it was great seeing A Matter of Life and Death there in August 2005

Steve

smudge

How about The Kinema-In-The-Woods in Lincs, or the Feckenodeon village hall cinema nr. Redditch...?

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

batman

There used to be one in Ely which was in a converted swimming pool .... I don't know if it is till there. The screen used to be in the deep end (emptied of course) with the seats raking up towards the shallow end (also empty).

Our local ASDA did drive-in movie nights in the car park with a giant screen on the roof of the supermarket. They did a couple, the last one being Grease, but the local council banned them after complaints about the noise. They used speakers instead of those little microphone thingies .... I went to the Grease one, it was great!

Bats.

penfold

Canterbury Cathedral was nice......best interior decor and no chewing gum on the seats....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Steve Crook

Very true - but the Archbishop was rotten as an usher. The ice-creams kept falling off his tray

Steve

Hugo

The Screen Room in Nottingham claims to be the world's smallest public cinema with 21 seats

Steve Crook

Do they still claim to have the smallest pub as well, The Old Trip?

Steve

dremble wedge

It's supposed to be the oldest not the smallest, but it's still a marvellous place.

The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds claims to be the smallest.

Steve Crook

Ah yes, that was it. But I don't remember it being very big either.
And does Nottingham have more pubs per staggered mile than any other city? It certainly has quite a lot. Or did when I was last there, but that was a while ago now

Steve

manager

I remember one in Manchester when I was a kid called The Fourways, ... It was actually on a junction of 3 roads

batman

Norwich used to boast a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week.

I have been to The Old Trip and it is certainly small .... I don't know The Nutshell, but in Norwich there is a pub called The Vine which is just one room, about the size of an average terraced house sitting room.

How small is The Nutshell if it is smaller than The Vine?

Bats.

Dave Rattigan

The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is unusual as a cinema; not historically, but nowadays, as it has the oldest and/or largest (if not only) art deco screen of its kind, that rises out of the stage at the start of every performance, and also has Britain's only remaining resident cinema organist, so far as I know.

Cypher

Is that the pub which used to be called The Trip to Jerusalem? (Perhaps its name has been changed in the interest of political correctness?)

C.

"Fetch me another anger therapist!"

Steve Crook

That's the one. It still is called that. It's actually "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem". The abbreviation is nothing to do with political correctness. It's quite common to abbreviate pub names

Steve