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From a book about cinemas (sorry, forgot the name!)…

Thorne had a cinema as early as 1912, the Picture Palace, which in January of that year entertained inmates of the Workhouse. In March, 1926 it was announced that the town was to have two new cinemas: one next to the Primitive Methodist Schoolroom in South Parade was planned by Mr. John Brooks of "Lindhurst", Thorne, and the second was to replace the existing Picture House.

Plans for the Fieldside project were approved by the R.D.C. in April 1926 and work had commenced by July of that year. The new Kensington with seating for 1,000, was formally opened on Monday 4th April, 1927. It was still open as a cinema in 1967 when the owners were Star Associated Holdings who had plans to convert it into a luxury entertainment centre for films, bingo and a social club. It reopened as the Ritz in 1967 with “My Fair Lady” but the last film was shown in September of the same year.

Mr John Austin was the manager for many years until his retirement in January 1967. In 1917 the manager for Thorne Picturedromes Ltd., was E. Ackroyd. The building exists as a disco club.

The South Parade project appears never to have succeeded. A third cinema was proposed by Mr. G. H. Wright of Doncaster’s Central Hall, in December 1913 when he announced an experimental picture house at the Town Hall. Yet another enterprise was a plan by Mr. J. Lovelace in November 1919 to adapt the old Town Hall as a cinema house.