Video 44659/Br/1/I193. 'Down Our Way - 3' (recorded and transmitted 12/03/75) shows Pat talking to Fred about the Picture House Cinema, later a bingo hall called 'The Broadway' on Filwood Broadway.
The cinema opened on 20 October 1938, seated 1,160 people and was built by local firm R J Hurford; Dennis Hurford and Roy Chamberlain acted as architects. The cinema was also used for bingo, boxing matches and as a concert venue where P J Proby performed in July 1964.
The video includes the memory that Saturday morning was a children's film club. The 'Filwood Broadway' still exists but only as an empty and boarded-up building -- it was sold in the late 1980s and closed soon after.
The nearby Filwood Social Centre/Community Centre features in many of the Knowle West TV videos from the 1970s.
Reference numbers are related to Bristol Record Office catalogue numbers.
Knowle West TV was developed by Peter Lewis and produced by Jekka McVicar. From 1973-75, programming was made, edited and broadcast by the people of Knowle West and broadcast to people's homes via the Rediffusion cable network. For more information: http://knowyourbristol.org/on-the-move/exploring-co-production/knowle-we...