Regent Theatre, Great Yarmouth
Photographs of Regent Theatre, Regent Road, Gt Yarmouth
By John Layton
Here are two photographs of the Regent Theatre/Cinema, which now houses Mecca Bingo on Regent Road.
The Cinema held Saturday Matinees for children, called the 'ABC Minors', up until the 1970's, which provided cheap entertainment for youngsters, and gave their parents much needed respite on a Saturday morning!
The bill for these matinees would be a serial, typically Batman or Flash Gordon, cartoons, and some comedy shorts, by the likes of Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges and Old Mother Riley, who was actually a man called Arthur Lucan!
Photograph of Regent Theatre
Gt Yarmouth Museums
Photograph of Regent Theatre restaurant
Gt Yarmouth Museums`
Postcard of the Regent Theatre
Great Yarmouth Museums