Picture Hall Proprietor

[matron54]

Can anyone help please with some research we are doing on a James Smith born 1862 Colton, Staffs.  On the 1911 Census he is Boarding with his wife Hannah at Lord Street Oswaldtwistle,
his occupation is Picture Hall Proprietor.   We would like to know if it's possible to find out if he
owned a Picture Hall in Oswaldtwistle??
El.

[rosie99]

There is mention of Empire Picture Theatre, Oswaldtwistle around that time
http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=055-ps_1&cid=5-20-3#5-20-3

also mentioned on same page
Proposed alterations to Palace Pictures, Rhyddings Street, Oswaldtwistle, by Joseph Dixon, Accrington, for Mr. Thomas Haworth (850 (62)  PSBl/20/318  n.d

[matron54]

Thanks I will have a look.
El.

[stanmapstone]

A book "Ninety Years of Cinema in Oswaldtwistle and the Upper Irwell Valley" by Brian Hornsey was published in 2010, ISBN 1905855818, 9781905855810

Stan