The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, celebrates its 75th anniversary this month

The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

Hello Martin,

The Broadway Cinema, celebrates its 75th anniversary this month
It opened on 16 August 1936 to Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!

The Heritage Foundation are putting on free tours of the cinema from 9 - 11 September (10am to 12.30pm)
if you are interested? To book call 01462 476057.

There is also a talk on Cinema in Letchworth Garden City by Heritage Museum Curotor Josh Tidy at 1pm on Thursday 15 September. To book, please call the number above.

from Friday 16 (from 5pm), Saturday 17 and Sunday 18, all tickets will be 75p!

Chris Marsom
chris.marsom@letchworth.com

The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

The Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

There was a time when people used to line up down the road to see a film at this cinema. The longest wait I ever saw was for the film Grease, my sister saw it four or five times!

There used to be another cinema next door the Palace, sadly knocked down, for a branch of W H Smith Do It All. (focus). Not a welcome development to Letchworth, at that time the Garden City Corporation were not always good at preserving the heritage. The are now as they purchased this Cinema to preserve it. The Garden City Corporation is now Letchworth Garden City Heritage