69a: *Extra Episode - The (Full) Story Of Bancroft Road, Reigate

354.24 - 396.212 Peter Stewart

Music halls were dying out because of the rise in popularity of the cinema, and they could see their income drying up, unless they, as we might say today, diversified or pivoted. Now, Reigate had a cinema, the Hippodrome in Bell Street, which had been opened in 1911. Originally, it was called the Palace Picture Drome. And in 1916, Harry and Emmy came to Reigate, saw it, and took it over.