0810 Berkhamsted Rex (26) - a photo on Flickriver

0810 Berkhamsted Rex (26)

The double height foyer has now been separated from the cinema (the entrance to the circle was behind the Great Gatsby poster) and is a high quality bar and restaurant known as Gatsby's - but the architecture is the same as when it was built. Opened in May 1938, the Rex was designed by David Evelyn Nye for the Shipman & King circuit. It seated 1,100 with more seats in the circle than the stalls due to the location of the cafe on the ground floor. The circle was twinned - badly - in 1976, and the stalls became a bingo hall. It was closed in 1988 and also listed grade 2 the same year. It was left in a vandalised and derelict state, with calls for its demolition. Almost miraculously it was restored and reopened in 2004, with enormous success, the large foyer separated as a restaurant, and the former car park used for flats, but the glorious auditorium renovated as a single screen once more, now seating 350 in luxurious comfort.

In 1988 it looked like this:-
www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/2133237959/

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England - Rex (Studio) Cinema, High Street
October 2008, image reworked 2021

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Berkhamsted (show map)

Taken on: October 13, 2008

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Sets appears in: • Functioning Cinemas • Berkhamsted Rex

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Camera: Olympus E-510, f/2.8, 1/10 sec, 11mm (=22mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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