Part 1 abandoned palladium cinema 47 years it's sat vacant.

let me know if you ever went here when this was open? Or worked here? Would love to hear your stories.. Part 1 In November 1911 the building first opens as the Hockley Picture House. It functions as a modest single-floor neighbourhood cinema with a total capacity of 506 seats. In 1922 a grand restoration took place to capitalised on the massive post-WWI boom in cinema going. the original structure was largely demolished. Renowned local architect L.L. Dussault designs a much larger grander three-story building featuring an elegant interior decorative scheme stalls and an upper circle balcony as seen in my video today. It was renamed the new palladium cinema. By 1936 ABC cinema bought it out and renamed it the palladium cinema. Due to a decline in ticket sales and a rise in home televisions the cinema closed down with the very last double-feature screened on its final night in Feb 1965 it showed The Spy and Daggers Drawn / À Couteaux Tirés. it was then turned into a bingo until 1979 when it permanently closed and this is how is sits after 47 years of being abandoned. #frozenintime #abandoned #urbanexplorers #explorer #vintagestyle #vintagefinds #exploringhistory #historia