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picture house

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noun

  1. an old-fashioned name for cinema

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Jacob and Lucy Agate watched It's a Wonderful Life at the sold-out Woolton Picture House on Christmas Eve before Jacob appeared on the big screen at the end of the film.

From BBC

Woolton Picture House, which first opened in 1927, closed in 2020 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Officers were called to the scene near The Picture House pub on Market Street in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, at about 11:25 BST on Tuesday, Gwent Police said.

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Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield has also been added to the list while Dudley Hippodrome has been removed after it was demolished.

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He said: "The New Picture House will continue to operate as usual until further notice. The directors look forward to supporting T-Squared Social with their development plans and to welcoming new and existing customers into the New Picture House on completion of the re-development works."

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