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boroughgreen kent
« on: Tuesday 24 August 10 14:30 BST (UK) »
i wonder can any person of the area in boroughgreen, can help my sister wae born there in march 1932 and she would love to know whether there was a local cinema,picture house in the village.
any info would be gratefully received maybe a picture or name any sort of info
     thsnks in anticipation paul

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 24 August 10 16:44 BST (UK) »
With questions like this it is alway advisable to Google, lots of information can be found that way. You should find this site useful.


http://www.boroughgreen.org/about_history.html

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: boroughgreen kent
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 25 August 10 20:38 BST (UK) »
Having driven through Borough Green I do not remember seeing any cinemas/picture houses there nor any buildings which could have been so at any time.
Fleming (Bristol) Fowler/Brain (Battersea/Bristol)    Simpson (Fulham/Clapham)  Harrison (W.London, Fulham, Clapham)  Earl & Butler  (Dublin,New Ross: Ireland)  Humphrey (All over mainly London) Hill (Reigate, Bletchingly, Redhill: Surrey)
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 25 August 10 20:50 BST (UK) »
The cinema was built in 1912 by Mr. H. Gilbert. It had a gas engine driving a generator.It was called the Electric Palace.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: boroughgreen kent
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 26 August 10 19:28 BST (UK) »
There is a mention of the Rex cinema in Borough Green here http://www.bygonekent.org.uk/article/final-curtain  I remember the building, the cinema closed in 1964, and I visited it later in the late 70s when it was a necktie store/warehouse. There are houses on the site now.

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