On my travels yesterday I encountered the third of the three
Tudoresque cinemas designed by Alfred John Thraves. This one, apparently never
used as a cinema but for many years a restaurant, is on the east side of North
Street in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
The other two are the
original Tudor Cinema, in West Bridgford, Nottingham, now demolished, and a
cinema in West Kirby on the Wirral, still standing but used for other purposes.
Thraves was born in West Bridgford in 1888, in the 1901 census he is listed as
living there, at 15 Patrick Road, the son of Joseph and Agnes Rosna Thraves,
and he died in 1953. In 1937 he designed the very different and classically art
deco Savoy cinema in Sheepmarket, Spalding.
