The Picture House

The Picture House is a J D Wetherspoon pub located on Fox Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. The building was originally built as the King's cinema in 1932, later served as a bingo hall and night club, and is now a Wetherspoon pub. The pub offers Wi-Fi, TV screens and step-free access, and is open daily from 8:00am.

The building now occupied by The Picture House was built as the King's cinema in 1932. It was the second picture house on the site, replacing the Picturedrome, which dated from 1904. Three Forest Street cottages were demolished to make way for the King's Cinema, a wood and corrugated iron structure said to have had seats for as many as 1,000 people. A casualty of cinema's general decline in the 1960s, King's cinema closed down in 1967. Within a few weeks, it reopened to a full house as the Star Bingo and Social Club. The bingo hall survived into the 1990s and, more recently, was used as the Picture House Night Club. It is now this Wetherspoon pub.

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