Crosshills Picture House
Station Road and Back Station Road,
Crosshills,
BD20 7DT
Station Road and Back Station Road,
Crosshills,
BD20 7DT
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Located in Crosshills [or Cross Hills] North Yorkshire, 4 miles south of Skipton, the 800-seat Picture House opened in 1913. It is possible that many seats in the capacity were on long wooden benches. It eventually had a British Thomson Houston(BTH) sound system installed and it a proscenium width of 25ft. By 1944 the seating capacity had been reduced to 430-seats. When CinemaScope was installed around 1954 the seating capacity was reduce once more to 374-seats The Picture House closed in early-1968 - the last advertised film was “You Only Live Twice” starring Sean Connery. The premises became a furniture store. By 2024 it was a bicycle shop named Paceline Cycles.
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Opened in 1913 with 800 seats under the management of Charles Nuttall, admission cost 2d to 6d. Seating had been reduced to 430 by 1944, but prices had risen to 3d to 10d, the proprietors were the Crosshills Picture House Co. The final KYB that I have is for 1966. Cinemascope had been installed, so seating reduced to 374. Ownership had changed to Picture House (Glusburn) Ltd., prices now had risen to 1s9d to 3s! Screen size quoted as being 25ft by 10ft, proscenium width remained at 25ft throughout…