At 130 Western Road, where Waitrose now stands, there was a cinema which operated from 1909-1979, variously as Electric Bioscope, Queen’s Electric Theatre, Queen’s Picture Theatre, Picturedrome, Scala Cinema, Regal Cinema, Curzon Kinema, and finally as Classic Cinema.
Originally the size of a small shop seating about 50 people, it expanded over the years to include an orchestra pit when silent films had a live soundtrack, to over 650 audience capacity in the 1930s. The last film screened was either The Warriors or The Spaceman and King Arthur.

“I remember sitting in Brighton’s Curzon cinema for more than seven hours, watching Errol Flynn lead the Light Brigade to glory. In those days films were own continuously and you could stay as long as you liked – or dared.”

Your next stop, the Brighton Little Theatre, is accessed by a small flight of steps.