Memories of the Palace Cinema - Fletcher Abbe Leigh

An archive of the oral history project Memories of the Palace Cinema Alton. The Palace Cinema was one of the longest running purpose built cinemas in the country. Opened 1912 and closed 2022. This book presents interviews with locals and responses to an online questionnaire. To collect memories of the Palace Cinema, to document the fact that this little market town had a cinema and the impact that cinema had on peoples' lives.

The Palace may be closed, but the memories live on.