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Snowy Gamble’s World of Cinemas
Above and on opposite page: Cinemas of Bridge Road Richmond, west to east, which were all on the north side of the road;
The National, photographed in 1992 when it was available for lease. It was an independent, its programs in Week One of suburban
release. Hoyts Cinema (exterior and interior), now a retail premises, and the Theatre Richmond, the shortest-lived cinema of the three.
Above: Further east on Swan Street, the Burnley
Theatre in 1992. This was a Week One
independent like the National, and only three road
km. away from it, well within the range expected of
a switcher.
Right: The Globe, Church Street about 1920.
Located near the corner with Swan Street, this
theatre was given a new façade in the 1930s.
Also an independent, its programming was linked
to that of Hoyts, in Week Six.
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