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Central Picture Theatre blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: The Central Picture Theatre This purpose built cinema opened in July 1913 and originally seated around a thousand patrons. It subsequently changed its name to the King Edward and opened, it remains a fine example of the first phase of cinema building in the Art Nouveau style. It showed its last film in 1972 and has since been known by a variety of names, used mainly as a nightclub. Recorded plaque organisation: Blackpool Civic Trust.

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