ABC London Road

Perusal of the Reading Evening Post on Newspapers.com shows that the naming situation for ABC’s Reading cinemas is more complicated than stated. From the end of October 1965 the Granby is advertised as “ABC Reading”, with the Central retaining it’s name. This presumably confused people and from November 12 1967 the Granby gets it’s name back and advertising refers to ABC Central and ABC Granby. This continues until July 25th 1971 when the Central is advertised as ABC Friar Street and the Granby becomes ABC London Road.

The first looks like the original auditorium of the Victoria Cambridge…….

I’m sorry to report that l was the closing manager for this fabulous building. As soon as the last patron had left the building after the last dreadful program (Creepshow), engineers were removing the tabs and projectors while we held a staff closing party in the Licensed Bar. One of our 70mm projectors (Philips dp75, l think,) ended up at the ABC Brighton in time for the first showing of ET in 70mm.