Palladium Cinema

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Photo of dilapidated auditorium showing water and fire damage. The tabs appear to be partially closed. This was Durham’s most luxurious cinema and was a ‘cut above’ the busier Essoldo on North Road which was better positioned and also benefitted from a generally better booking policy. The Palladium’s only ‘trump card’ was its exclusive arrangement with 20th Century-Fox although this failed to assist the place during that Company’s rather lean years in the early 1970’s……