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1 The British Cinema Boom 1909-1914: A Commercial History ________________________________________________________________ Appendix This is a list of all the limited companies formed in Great Britain between 1906 and 1914 that were involved in the field of film exhibition, plus archival references for company documents containing information about their finances and shareholders. The listings are in chronological order of registration, though private and public companies for each year are listed separately, as are Scottish companies. All of these documents were used to generate figures about company directors and capital subscription levels tabulated and discussed in Chapter Two (Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4; pp. 17-27, 36-37, 39-43, 49-50), and the figures for company mortgages and mortality rates tabulated in Chapter Four (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3). Registration documents and annual returns for companies preceded by the following symbols were also used to compile certain other forms of data: * Used to generate company shareholder data discussed in Chapter Two (pp. 25, 45-49). † Used to generate average cinema land, construction and furnishing costs tabulated in Chapter Three (Fig. 3) and discussed in Chapter Four (p. 120). ‡ Used to generate annual profit data for small cinema companies tabulated in Chapter Four (Fig. 4). § Used to generate film rental data tabulated in Chapter Five (Fig. 2). 1906 Hale’s Tours of the World Ltd; NA BT31/11585/89441 Hale’s Tours (Foreign Rights) Ltd; NA BT31/11651/90083 Hale’s Tours of the World (United Kingdom) Ltd; NA BT31/11773/91307 1907 British Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/11888/92496 Pastimes Ltd; NA BT31/11894/92555 Pathé’s Animated Picture Shows Ltd/New Egyptian Hall Ltd; NA BT31/11894/93164 Gayland Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/18135/93889 New Era Bioscope and Vaudeville Company Ltd; NA BT31/12139/95175 Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12167/95467 Ruffell’s Imperial Bioscope Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/18290/95904 1908 Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32003/99537 Biograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18570/99828 Popular Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/12296/96939 Hale’s Tours (Devon) Ltd; NA BT31/18388/97336 Lightning Travels Company Ltd; NA BT31/12332/97353 Universal Animated Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12369/97763 New Century Animated Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12390/97998 Hale’s Tours (Glamorgan) Ltd; NA BT31/12412/98278 Cinema Matinees Ltd; NA BT31/12513/99576 Recreations Ltd; NA BT31/12530/99766 Animated Pictorial Enterprises Ltd; NA BT95/3 Cinema Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/12584/100469 Provincial Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/18644/100640 Hale’s Tours of the World (Scotland) Ltd; NRS BT2/6828 1909 Electric Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32008/100942 Cinorama Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12624/101021 ‡Arena Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18682/101111 Electrical Shows Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12671/101632 London Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12695/101929 ‡Paragon Bioscope Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12706/102067 ‡Novel Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12715/102160 Metropolitan Cinematographs Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12729/102332 †‡Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18830/102799 United Rinks & Amusement Co. Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12804/103398 Provincial Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12852/104048 Daylight Cinematographs Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12874/104385 Manchester Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19024/105249 Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; CH 00105896 *Premier Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19104/106111 ‡§Gaiety Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19118/106242 London and Provincial Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19118/106246 National Theatres de Luxe Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13007/106275 Yorkshire Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13019/106419 Pavilion of Fun Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13020/106437 ‡British Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19142/106526 ‡Midland Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13035/106696 ‡West of Scotland Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7366 Jury’s Imperial Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/18688/101187 Picture Land Ltd; NA BT31/12640/101208 Cinema House Ltd; NA BT31/34889/101346 Improved Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/12683/101793 District and Provincial Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/12697/101945 London & Provincial Electric Bioscope Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12699/101974 Whilon Entertainments Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12700/101984 New Bioscope Trading Company Ltd; NA BT31/18763/102031 Cinematograph Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12707/102080 Entertainment Properties Ltd; NA BT31/18808/102622 Bedford Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12759/102746 Popular Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12770/102861 Speaking Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12771/102867 Perfecto Filmograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/3 Bioscopic Tea Rooms Company Ltd; NA BT95/3 Cinematograph Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT31/12782/103016 Provincial Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/12785/103069 Bioptics Ltd; NA BT31/18877/103347 Amusements Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/18881/103404 Electric Empires Ltd; NA BT31/12808/103454 Rinks and Cinematographs – Provinces and London Ltd; NA BT31/12829/103755 Electric Entertainments Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12831/103771 Automatic Vaudeville Daily Bioscope Ltd; NA BT31/12833/103803 Daylight Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12839/103893 Hammersmith Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12853/104076 Finsbury Park Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12856/104109 Haulgh Picture Palace and Skating Rink Company Ltd; NA BT31/18938/104128 Casino de Paris Ltd; NA BT31/12860/104169 Park Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12880/104469 Enterprise Developments Ltd; NA BT31/12284/104527 Bijou Picture Theatre (Camberwell) Ltd; NA BT31/12899/104749 Northern Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/122 Bipics Ltd; NA BT31/12916/104964 Entertainment Halls Ltd; NA BT31/12929/105170 Walham Green Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12922/105053 Ashford Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT95/122 Shepherd’s Bush Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12929/105165 World’s Biograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/12942/105369 †Clapham Junction Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19040/105464 Luton Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19061/105672 Arcade Picture Palace (Portsmouth) Ltd; NA BT31/12955/105522 Electric Theatres Bureau Ltd; NA BT31/12962/105634 H.M. Animated Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12965/105679 Leytonstone Palace Ltd; NA BT31/12978/105873 Empire (Aberdare) Ltd; NA BT31/12980/105904 Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/12980/105895 Bradarold Ltd; NA BT31/12983/105924 Electroscopes Ltd; NA BT31/19083/105933 Electric Pictures (Dover) Ltd; NA BT31/19087/105952 Wood Green Market and Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19096/106038 Popular Entertainments (1909) Ltd; NA BT31/19103/106110 Alexanders’ Animated Picture Co. Ltd; NA BT31/12997/106132 Piccadilly Circus Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19109/106156 Ealing Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12999/106166 Cinema de Paris Ltd; NA BT31/19112/106199 Penzance Palace and Skating Rinks Ltd; NA BT31/19117/106227 Kinema Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19118/106244 New Electric Varieties Ltd; NA BT31/13006/106264 Picton & Persee Ltd; NA BT31/13011/106323 Happy Hours Ltd; NA BT31/13013/106336 Sheffield Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/524 London Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/13015/106373 *Prince’s Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/19129/106365

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Page 1: The British Cinema Boom 1909-1914: A Commercial History … · 2018. 2. 1. · 1 The British Cinema Boom 1909-1914: A Commercial History _____ Appendix This is a list of all the limited

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The British Cinema Boom 1909-1914: A Commercial History

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Appendix

This is a list of all the limited companies formed in Great Britain between 1906 and 1914 that were involved in the field of film exhibition, plus

archival references for company documents containing information about their finances and shareholders. The listings are in chronological order

of registration, though private and public companies for each year are listed separately, as are Scottish companies. All of these documents were

used to generate figures about company directors and capital subscription levels tabulated and discussed in Chapter Two (Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4;

pp. 17-27, 36-37, 39-43, 49-50), and the figures for company mortgages and mortality rates tabulated in Chapter Four (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3).

Registration documents and annual returns for companies preceded by the following symbols were also used to compile certain other forms of

data: * Used to generate company shareholder data discussed in Chapter Two (pp. 25, 45-49).

† Used to generate average cinema land, construction and furnishing costs tabulated in Chapter Three (Fig. 3) and discussed in Chapter Four (p.

120).

‡ Used to generate annual profit data for small cinema companies tabulated in Chapter Four (Fig. 4).

§ Used to generate film rental data tabulated in Chapter Five (Fig. 2).

1906 Hale’s Tours of the World Ltd; NA BT31/11585/89441

Hale’s Tours (Foreign Rights) Ltd; NA BT31/11651/90083

Hale’s Tours of the World (United Kingdom) Ltd; NA BT31/11773/91307

1907 British Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/11888/92496

Pastimes Ltd; NA BT31/11894/92555

Pathé’s Animated Picture Shows Ltd/New Egyptian Hall Ltd; NA BT31/11894/93164

Gayland Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/18135/93889

New Era Bioscope and Vaudeville Company Ltd; NA BT31/12139/95175

Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12167/95467

Ruffell’s Imperial Bioscope Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/18290/95904

1908 Electric Theatres (1908) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32003/99537

Biograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18570/99828

Popular Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/12296/96939

Hale’s Tours (Devon) Ltd; NA BT31/18388/97336

Lightning Travels Company Ltd; NA BT31/12332/97353

Universal Animated Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12369/97763

New Century Animated Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12390/97998

Hale’s Tours (Glamorgan) Ltd; NA BT31/12412/98278

Cinema Matinees Ltd; NA BT31/12513/99576

Recreations Ltd; NA BT31/12530/99766

Animated Pictorial Enterprises Ltd; NA BT95/3

Cinema Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/12584/100469

Provincial Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/18644/100640

Hale’s Tours of the World (Scotland) Ltd; NRS BT2/6828

1909 Electric Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32008/100942

Cinorama Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12624/101021

‡Arena Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18682/101111

Electrical Shows Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12671/101632

London Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12695/101929

‡Paragon Bioscope Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12706/102067

‡Novel Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12715/102160

Metropolitan Cinematographs Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12729/102332

†‡Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/18830/102799

United Rinks & Amusement Co. Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12804/103398

Provincial Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12852/104048

Daylight Cinematographs Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/12874/104385

Manchester Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19024/105249

Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; CH 00105896

*Premier Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19104/106111

‡§Gaiety Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19118/106242

London and Provincial Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19118/106246

National Theatres de Luxe Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13007/106275

Yorkshire Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13019/106419

Pavilion of Fun Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13020/106437

‡British Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19142/106526

‡Midland Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13035/106696

‡West of Scotland Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7366

Jury’s Imperial Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/18688/101187

Picture Land Ltd; NA BT31/12640/101208

Cinema House Ltd; NA BT31/34889/101346

Improved Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/12683/101793

District and Provincial Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/12697/101945

London & Provincial Electric Bioscope Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12699/101974

Whilon Entertainments Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12700/101984

New Bioscope Trading Company Ltd; NA BT31/18763/102031

Cinematograph Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12707/102080

Entertainment Properties Ltd; NA BT31/18808/102622

Bedford Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12759/102746

Popular Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/12770/102861

Speaking Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12771/102867

Perfecto Filmograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/3

Bioscopic Tea Rooms Company Ltd; NA BT95/3

Cinematograph Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT31/12782/103016

Provincial Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/12785/103069

Bioptics Ltd; NA BT31/18877/103347

Amusements Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/18881/103404

Electric Empires Ltd; NA BT31/12808/103454

Rinks and Cinematographs – Provinces and London Ltd; NA BT31/12829/103755

Electric Entertainments Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/12831/103771

Automatic Vaudeville Daily Bioscope Ltd; NA BT31/12833/103803

Daylight Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/12839/103893

Hammersmith Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12853/104076

Finsbury Park Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12856/104109

Haulgh Picture Palace and Skating Rink Company Ltd; NA BT31/18938/104128

Casino de Paris Ltd; NA BT31/12860/104169

Park Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12880/104469

Enterprise Developments Ltd; NA BT31/12284/104527

Bijou Picture Theatre (Camberwell) Ltd; NA BT31/12899/104749

Northern Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/122

Bipics Ltd; NA BT31/12916/104964

Entertainment Halls Ltd; NA BT31/12929/105170

Walham Green Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12922/105053

Ashford Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT95/122

Shepherd’s Bush Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12929/105165

World’s Biograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/12942/105369

†Clapham Junction Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19040/105464

Luton Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19061/105672

Arcade Picture Palace (Portsmouth) Ltd; NA BT31/12955/105522

Electric Theatres Bureau Ltd; NA BT31/12962/105634

H.M. Animated Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/12965/105679

Leytonstone Palace Ltd; NA BT31/12978/105873

Empire (Aberdare) Ltd; NA BT31/12980/105904

Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/12980/105895

Bradarold Ltd; NA BT31/12983/105924

Electroscopes Ltd; NA BT31/19083/105933

Electric Pictures (Dover) Ltd; NA BT31/19087/105952

Wood Green Market and Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd; NA

BT31/19096/106038

Popular Entertainments (1909) Ltd; NA BT31/19103/106110

Alexanders’ Animated Picture Co. Ltd; NA BT31/12997/106132

Piccadilly Circus Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19109/106156

Ealing Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/12999/106166

Cinema de Paris Ltd; NA BT31/19112/106199

Penzance Palace and Skating Rinks Ltd; NA BT31/19117/106227

Kinema Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19118/106244

New Electric Varieties Ltd; NA BT31/13006/106264

Picton & Persee Ltd; NA BT31/13011/106323

Happy Hours Ltd; NA BT31/13013/106336

Sheffield Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/524

London Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/13015/106373

*Prince’s Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/19129/106365

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Southport Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/479

Equitable Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13021/106454

Empire Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13023/106484

International Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19137/106488

Irish Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13027/106557

Northern Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13028/106562

Cinema de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13030/106611

Theatres Contract & Finance Company Ltd; NA BT31/13036/106699

South Shields Amusements Ltd; NA BT95/4

Electric Coliseums Ltd; NA BT31/19163/106752

Ayr Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/7379

Govan Cross Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/7369

1910 †‡Universal Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19173/106861

Electric Picture Palaces (Midlands) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13045/106871

National Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/747

‡Chichester Olympia Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19201/107231

Staffordshire Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13069/107309

Hastings and St Leonard’s Roller Skating Rinks and Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/13071/107352

Shipton Entertainments Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/123

Consolidated Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13079/107467

*†United Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13091/107645

Weisker’s Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13100/107761

‡§Surrey and Sussex Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13108/107880

Streatham Picture Theatre and Skating Rink Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13114/107937

‡Academy Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19279/107973

Standard Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19297/108138

†‡British ‘Bijou’ Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19305/108181

Wilson’s Electric Empires Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13140/108264

Palace Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19322/108319

‡Victoria Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19363/108656

‡Sheffield and District Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/40561/108712

Lancashire Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13185/108815

†‡Olympia Picture Palace and Aero Exhibition Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19401/108935

‡St Albans Alpha Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19405/108974

Roundhay Amusements Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13225/109276

‡Associated Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19440/109321

Streatham Amusements Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13237/109457

London and County Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13239/109482

Ramsgate and District Popular Amusements Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/124

†Wingate Empire Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13252/109690

§Grand Electric Empires Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13263/109832

Hibbert’s Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/933

Bournemouth, Exeter and Plymouth Bioscope Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/13265/109852

Electric Theatres (Warwickshire) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13265/109858

‘Harper’ Electric Piano (1910) Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19497/109862

Premier Electric Theatre (Highbury) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13282/110085

Andrews’ Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13283/110091

*†Amalgamated Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19514/110118

Aston Cross Electric Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13284/110120

†‡Clapton Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19538/110404

‡Development Control Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19565/110721

‡Globe Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/38310+38311/110785

Swan Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13324/110860

National Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13331/110965

†‡Newbury Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32073/110986

†‡Grand Picture and Variety Theatre, Gillingham (Kent), Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/19591/111005

‡Picture Entertainments de Luxe Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13357/111044

‡Gem Electrical Picture Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19615/111235

Watchet Improvement Association Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13349/111254

Combined Electric Theatres Syndicate Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13353/111321

Maidstone Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13354/111329

†‡§Edmonton Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19626/111412

‡§British Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; CH 00111541

Goldthorpe Empire Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/125

Aylesbury Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13379/111722

High Wycombe Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13380/111731

‘Electra’ Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13386/111824

‡Bath Electric Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/33785/111820

Margate, Broadstairs, and Ramsgate Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/13387/111840

Gloucester Grand Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13388/111856

Wimbledon Hippodrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19664/111937

Cinematograph Theatres Investment Trust Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13394/111943

‡Radium Picture Playhouses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19691/112276

Brentford Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13423/112387

‡New Mills Cinematograph and Entertainment Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/19706/112439

Cinematograph Finance Corporation Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19732/112756

Corona Cinema Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13447/112770

Central Park Amusements Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13449/112804

Birkenhead Picturedrome and Billiard Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/126

Cudworth Palace of Varieties Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/551

†‡Picturedromes Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19755/113009

State Electric Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/806

†‡Hove Electric Empire Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19756/113040

Frederick’s Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/126

Peckham and Camberwell Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13472/113170

†‡§Selhurst Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19776/113253

†Gaiety (Cardiff) Electric Theatre and Rink Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/19779/113287

†‡Paignton Electric Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19781/113315

Dover, Deal, and Folkestone Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13418/112313

Scottish Electric Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7567

‡Scottish Moving Pictures Company Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7615

B.B. Pictures Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7670

Phoenix Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7727

Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13041/106811

Gosport Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13043/106847

Midland Palaces Syndicate; NA BT31/13045/106878

Entertainment Enterprises Ltd; NA BT31/13047/106929

Northern Biograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/19180/106978

Bermondsey Biograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13053/107009

Manor Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13057/107132

Vidoscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/13066/107263

Northern Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13072/107363

Prince’s Hall (Hull) Ltd; NA BT31/13072/107366

*New Empire Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13074/107388

Elephant & Castle Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13075/107419

Cinematograph Industrial Corporation Ltd; NA BT31/13078/107446

Kino Halls Ltd; NA BT31/19225/107491

Great Harwood Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19228/107519

Anchor Picture Theatres and Amusements Company Ltd; NA BT31/13084/107525

Willesden Green Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/4

Brighton Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13086/107577

Picture Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/13090/107642

Electric Fun Palaces Ltd/Empire Cinema (Greenwich) Ltd; NA BT31/19243/107658

Grand Central Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13096/107698

Greenwich Cinema de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13097/107728

*Eldorado Cinematograph Theatre Co. Ltd; NA BT31/19258/107776

Palais De Luxe Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/19262/107819

Albert Hall (Cheltenham) Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13105/107831

†Empress Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13105/107837

Folkestone Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13105/107838

Pyke’s Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/19266/107844

Up-to-Date Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13108/107881

Heaton & Byker People’s Hall Ltd; NA BT31/19271/107899

Kilburn Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13114/107945

Fratton Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19293/108099

Manchester Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/19296/108133

International Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/13135/108190

Aston Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13139/108246

Electric Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/19326/108368

Pastimes (Hucknall) Ltd; NA BT31/19335/108432

Cinema Picture Palace (Devonport) Ltd; NA BT31/13155/108464

Rinks and Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/19338/108473

Ashby’s New Halls Ltd; NA BT31/19341/108492

Philadelphia and Herrington Rink Hall Ltd; NA BT31/19353/108590

Grand Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/747

‡Holborn Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/19365/108664

Safety Bioscope Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/13178/108748

Popular Bioscopes Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19402/108939

Aldershot Cinema de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13196/108947

Industrial Enterprises Ltd; NA BT31/13197/108965

Manor Park Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13204/109039

Townsend Hall Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13210/109093

Scenic Yachting Cruises Ltd; NA BT31/13217/109160

Star Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13225/109277

Angel Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/13227/109319

Brown’s Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/19440/109323

Upperthorpe Picture Palace (Sheffield) Ltd; NA BT95/124

Leivers & Bennett Ltd/Bennett & Tolfree Ltd; NA BT31/19457/109479

Theatre Elite Ltd; NA BT31/19459/109487

La Ville Lumière Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/19462/109507

Grove (Stratford) Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/124

Cecil Cinematograph Property Investment Company Ltd; NA BT31/13265/109855

West of England Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19498/109880

Moston Palace Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13307/110565

Bargoed Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/125

Warrington Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19506/110015

Electric Vaudeville Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13278/110024

Porth Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13279/110030

White Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/4

Brixton Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19509/110057

Suburban Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19513/110110

Hirst Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/13286/110157

British Bio-Electrics Ltd; NA BT31/13290/110219

*North-East Lancashire Kinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13290/110232

†Streatham Empire Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/19527/110275

Darlaston Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/19529/110300

Apollo Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13294/110339

Pantheon Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13300/110445

Picture Coliseums Ltd; NA BT31/19546/110510

Picture Exhibitions Ltd; NA BT31/19549/110540

Broadway Gardens Ltd; NA BT95/125

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Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/13315/110699

Slough Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/19565/110730

Widnes Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19565/110732

Montpelier Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19568/110750

Bijou Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13318/110762

South Wales Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/4

Bournemouth Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19574/110806

Realm Cinema Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13322/110837

Pearl Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/125

T.G.R. Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19583/110905

Holloway Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13336/111038

*South London Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13330/110951

Theatrical Picture Lounges Ltd; NA BT31/13333/110991

Blackburn Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13334/110995

Egyptian Hall Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13334/111003

Grampius Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19591/111004

‡Grand Casino Ltd; NA BT31/19593/111035

Newington Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/125

Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/125

Bush Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/19602/111108

Peckham Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13340/111095

Stockport Public Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/19603/111121

Smethwick Empire Ltd; NA BT31/19608/111188

Eclipse Trading Company Ltd; NA BT31/19622/111337

Belfast Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13356/111371

Moving Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/13357/111400

Sidney Bacon’s Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/125

British Biograph Company (Blaydon) Ltd; NA BT31/19628/111428

Kentish Town Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/19640/111615

East Anglian Cinematograph Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19642/111637

Philharmonic Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT31/13378/111693

Stockport Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19647/111706

Barnstaple Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/13379/111724

Electric Pavilion (Clapham) Ltd; NA BT31/13379/111728

Wide World Film Company Ltd; NA BT31/19650/111742

Murie Aeroplanes Ltd; NA BT31/19564/111809

Portable Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/13387/111843

Violet Melnotte Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19657/111847

Blackfriars Grand Central Ltd; NA BT31/13388/111853

Nottingham Electric Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/19660/111878

Clowne and District Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/125

London and General Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13391/111910

Handsworth Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/19664/111948

New Cross Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13396/111983

New Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13396/111985

Belfast Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19669/112001

Cardiff Cinema Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19671/112002

Salisbury Picturedrome and Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19673/112025

Living Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/126

Eastleigh Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19680/112124

*Southern Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/112152

Empire Electric Theatre (Blackburn) Ltd; NA BT95/126

Electric Palaces of Kent Ltd; NA BT31/19681/112160

Newark Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13410/112195

Pontypridd Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19684/112196

Shankhill Picturedrome (Belfast) Ltd; NA BT31/19685/112211

Birmingham & District Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/19688/112260

Deptford Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/551

Biorink and Entertainment Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13416/112282

Bradford Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19694/112308

Broad Weir Hall (Bristol) Ltd; NA BT31/13418/112310

Cinema Enterprises Ltd; NA BT95/126

Lenton and District Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13421/112353

Darlington Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/126

Wakefield Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19702/112403

South Hampstead Arcade Ltd; NA BT31/13424/112419

Cardiff and District Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19704/112424

Corporation Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19705/112427

Picturehouse Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19705/112433

Charnley’s Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/689

Hightown Picture Pavilion Company Ltd; NA BT31/13427/112463

*Bedworth Palace and Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/19710/112493

‡Putney Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19714/112527

Arc Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19714/112531

A.B. Animated Picture Circuit Ltd; NA BT31/13432/112552

Electra House (Belfast) Ltd; NA BT31/13433/112570

Fisher’s Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13436/112613

Castle Cine Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19723/112637

Counties Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19725/112662

People’s Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13440/112674

Leamington Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19727/112692

Artistic Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/13444/112714

Chester-le-Street Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19728/112716

Canterbury Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/126

Animated Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13445/112737

Hyde Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19731/112743

Midland Perfect Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13446/112760

West Indian Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13448/112789

Barnsley Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19737/112817

Eastleigh Amusements and Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19739/112841

Langfier’s Cinematograph Film Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/19740/112846

Electric Alhambra Ltd; NA BT31/19746/112931

Lincoln Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19750/112952

Southall Empire Picture Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13461/112958

Bury Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/1804

Plumstead Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19755/113021

West Norwood Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13465/113028

Cinemets Ltd; NA BT31/13466/113036

*County Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13466/113037

Union Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13468/113088

North British Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/126

T. Hargreaves (Altrincham) Ltd; NA BT95/479

Chesterfield Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19761/113098

Cinema-Halles Ltd; NA BT31/19761/113099

Coventry Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/13469/113100

Darlaston Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19761/113102

Coronet Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13471/113147

Macclesfield Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19773/113209

*Weston-super-Mare Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19773/113217

Horden Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/861

Brixton Electric Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/13476/113236

Middlesborough Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19775/113248

Kingston (Portsmouth) Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/4

Prince’s Hall (Shipley) Ltd; NA BT95/126

Birmingham Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19767/113142

British Amusement Company Ltd; NA BT31/19783/113331

Aston Bijou Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19789/113388

Picture Halls Ltd; NA BT31/13482/113406

Scala Kinemacolor Ltd; NA BT31/13482/113407

Roy Cinema de Luxe Company Ltd; NA BT31/13485/113464

Glasgow Electric Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/7476

Scottish Cinematograph Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7501

Star Animated Picture and Vaudeville Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7555

Highland Cinematograph and Variety Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7601

Paisley Road Electric Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/7604

Caledonian Cinematograph Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7622

Stobswell Cinema Theatre Ltd; NRS BT2/7656

U.C. Picture Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7683

Shettleston Premier Picture Theatre Company Ltd; NRS BT2/7695

British-American Electric Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/7710

Gourock Kursaal Ltd; NRS BT2/7747

1911 ‡Gosport Bioscope Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19818/113682

Southampton and District Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13500/113740

§American Film Trading Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19825/113761

Middlesex Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19832/113830

‡Picturettes (Liverpool) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19833/113836

Brockwell Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13507/113874

*‡Associated Picture Coliseums Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19865/114150

†‡Caversham Electric Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19878/114303

E.P.P. (Canterbury) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13531/114324

‡White Arch Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19891/114443

‡§Luton Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19895/114474

Garden Cine Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13542/114578

†‡Sutton Cinematograph Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19911/114640

‡Camberley Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19916/114680

‡§Royston Empire Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19917/114694

St George’s Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13548/114695

Hampstead Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13552/114755

†‡Lancashire Picturedromes Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19930/114839

Loughborough Picture Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13560/114930

‡Picture Pastimes Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13562/114982

Abertillery Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13564/115013

‡Adelphi Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13568/115101

Lloyd’s Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13570/115135

Bury St Edmunds Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13585/115383

Arcadian Cinemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13586/115410

†‡West End Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/19980/115436

‡Northern Entertainment Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32098/115673

‡Select Picture Houses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20005/115753

Essex Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13605/115766

‡Farnborough Empire Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20007/115767

Palladium (Brighton) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20020/115875

‡Burton Electric Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20038/116006

Acton Picture Pavilion Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13630/116227

†‡Cornish Pictures Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20107/116608

Great Central Investment Trust Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20114/116688

Limehouse Cinema Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13656/116733

Birmingham Electric Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13662/116868

United Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20139/116962

Associated County Halls Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20155/117102

Henley Picture Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13694/117534

Picturedrome (Glasgow) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13696/117563

§Electra Palace (Oxford) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32106/117610

Worcestershire Playhouses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13702/117656

§Electra Palace Theatre (Liverpool) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20215/117724

New Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13711/117820

Apollo Kinematic Theatre Southsea Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1340

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Midland Electric Theatres (1911) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/502

Torquay Entertainments Ltd [Public]; CH 00118269

Shaw Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1525

†‡Aberdare Cinemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20288/118441

*†‡Merthyr Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20291/118469

†‡Grantham Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13747/118523

New Century Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/42967/118640

Hounslow Coliseum Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13756/118743

†Star Picture Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32110/118824

Troedyrhiw Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/128

Swinton Empire Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13773/119067

†‡Woolwich Arsenal Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20368/119211

Globe Amusements Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7787

‡Aberdeen Electric Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/7981

Fulham Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/4

Torquay Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13487/113512

Entertainment Development Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13490/113553

Riviera Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13496/113689

Tivoli, Devonport, Ltd; NA BT95/126

Bijou Electric Empire Ltd; NA BT31/19827/113782

Hythe Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13502/113801

City Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19831/113819

Associates Ltd; NA BT31/19836/113870

Kingstown Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/19836/113879

*Putney Bridge Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13507/113895

New Hippodrome (Lytham) Ltd; NA BT31/13509/113925

Cambridge Circus Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13510/113934

Hornsey Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13510/113954

Aylesbury Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/126

*Hindley Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19855/114070

Southport Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19855/114076

Variety Cinematograph Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/13516/114080

Landport Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19859/114112

Globe Electric Theatre (Gosforth) Ltd; NA BT31/19862/114132

American Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13519/114148

Swansea Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19867/114163

Rupert Land Company Ltd; NA BT31/13522/114191

New Paragon Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13521/114207

Broughton Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/19874/114255

Fan Cinematograph Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19875/114262

Cotteridge Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/13527/114278

Oxford Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19878/114298

Princes Picture Palace (Putney) Ltd; NA BT31/13529/114299

Building and Equipment Corporation Ltd; NA BT31/13531/114321

Bur-Nel Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/19880/114322

Consolidated Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/126

Newcastle Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/??

Worksop Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/1299

Northern Counties Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19890/114436

Joseph Brown Ltd; NA BT95/126

National Provincial Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13537/114454

Electric Pavilion (Shaftesbury Avenue) Ltd/Electric Pavilion (High Street Putney) Ltd;

NA BT31/13537/114467

*Durham County Electric Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/19897/114485

National Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13540/114531

Finchley Bijou Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19903/114549

Photoplays Ltd; NA BT95/127

Rendezvous Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/13544/114616

Canterbury Theatre De Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13544/114624

Coliseum (Porthcawl) Ltd; NA BT31/19910/114626

Coronation Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13547/114664

Southampton Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19918/114696

Entertainments (Great Harwood) Ltd; NA BT95/127

Grand Electric Theatre (Hanwell) Ltd; NA BT31/13552/114754

Rohy Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13554/114802

Dover Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/19928/114812

†Leeds Electric Picture Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/19934/114863

Military Portable Cinema Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13556/114885

Exeter Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/4

Argyle Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13559/114916

Gravesend Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/32093/114924

Houghton Empire Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/806

East Lancashire Picture and Variety Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/19946/115026

Cheshire Animated Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/13567/115086

Electric Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/13568/115088

Cinematograph Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/19954/115105

Petersfield Electric Theatre and Public Hall Ltd; NA BT31/19955/115114

Twenty-Sixth Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13569/115119

Watford Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13571/115149

Warrington Empire Amusements Company Ltd; NA BT31/13572/115168

Marshlands Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/127

Andover Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/19958/115169

Albion Picture Hall (Oldham) Ltd; NA BT95/502

Plymouth Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13574/115200

Rotherham Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19965/115238

*Banbury Grand Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/19969/115285

Canadian Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13579/115287

Empire Picture Palace (Farnworth) Ltd; NA BT95/127

Forest Hall Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/19971/115318

Derwent Pavilion Company Ltd; NA BT95/127

South Eastern Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/19975/115376

C.G.H.S. Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/127

Victoria Electraceums Ltd/Electradomes Ltd; NA BT31/19986/115511

South Elmsall Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT95/502

Bournemouth Aerdome Ltd; NA BT31/13594/115552

†‡Cheriton Electric Hall Ltd; NA BT31/19994/115629

Colonade Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13598/115630

Stockwell Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT31/19996/115640

Woodseats Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20000/115682

North London Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13610/115847

Heeley Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20023/115892

Toxteth Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/20025/115911

A.C. Company Ltd/Asiatic Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/20031/115957

Farnham Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20033/115964

Oxford Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20038/116013

Liscard Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/127

Cosy Cinema of Lambeth Ltd; NA BT31/20047/116076

Nechells Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20054/116144

Coronation Pavilion Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Cosy Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13630/116235

Crescent Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13630/116236

Empire Palace (Mexborough) Ltd; NA BT31/20063/116237

‘Gem’ Picture Palace (North Ormesby) Ltd; NA BT31/20067/116260

Hastings Aerdome Ltd; NA BT31/13631/116261

Wirral Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT95/806

Harlesden Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20071/116279

Electric Pictures (Enfield) Ltd; NA BT31/20077/116328

‘X.L.’ Amusements Company Ltd; NA BT31/13648/116589

Grimsby Picture Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/20103/116576

Cambridge Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13648/116605

Glossop Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20107/116611

Newcastle Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13649/116615

Biocolor Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20108/116628

Harlesden Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20111/116668

*†Welsh Cinemas Company Ltd; NA BT31/20112/116680

Hockley Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Picturedrome (Sheffield) Ltd; NA BT95/689

Bailey’s Estate Company Ltd; NA BT31/20126/116836

Dobie’s Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20127/116840

Hackney Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/13663/116875

X.G.L. Syndicate Ltd; NA BT95/127

Alexandra Picture Theatre (Southampton) Ltd; NA BT95/5

Colorscope Ltd; NA BT31/13666/116954

Eastbourne Cinema Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13667/116981

C-All Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13667/116996

Levant Kinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/20144/117007

Blackpool Colosseum Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/13671/117057

*Felling and Pelaw Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/20151/117060

Herne Bay Cinema de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13672/117089

Provincial Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/20154/117096

Chinese Educational Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13672/117104

West Riding Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/5

Coronet Cinema, Lowestoft, Ltd; NA BT31/20165/117185

Southsea Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20167/117213

Boosbeck Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20170/117254

Victoria Picture Theatres (1911) Ltd; NA BT31/20178/117340

Wandsworth Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13684/117341

Premier Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20180/117355

Electric Pictures (Brentford) Ltd; NA BT31/13688/117417

Newquay Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/32105/117436

Attiwells Ltd; NA BT31/13691/117460

Slater’s Electric Theatre Company Ltd/High Spen Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA

BT31/20191/117474

Peckham Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/20194/117509

Uxbridge Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20195/117513

Palace Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/13695/117547

‘X.L.’ Syndicate (Swansea) Ltd; NA BT31/13697/117585

Reddish Bijou Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/128

King’s Heath Electric Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/13698/117603

People’s Palace, Tottenham, Ltd; NA BT31/13699/117605

Columbia Transfer Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13699/117618

Grand Parade Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/20206/117648

Tyneside Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20207/117671

Grafton Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20216/117726

Pavilion Theatre (Murton) Ltd; NA BT31/20217/117734

Queen’s Park Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20217/117735

Cinematograph Playhouse Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/13707/117755

N.C.A. Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/20219/117767

*Theatre de Luxe (Halifax) Ltd; NA BT31/20229/117841

*Villiers Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20230/117857

Northumbrian Picture and Public Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/128

Picture House (Swindon) Ltd; NA BT31/13713/117872

Alliance Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20233/117894

Lime Street Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/20239/117955

Electric Pavilion (Shaftesbury Avenue) Ltd; NA BT31/20240/117964

Fence Houses Palace Ltd; CH 00117980

West Surrey Animated Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20243/117991

Stockport Palace Ltd; NA BT95/862

Godalming Electric Empire Ltd; NA BT31/20246/118021

Gem Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/747

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Penny Picture Theatre Company Ltd/Crown Picture Theatre Co. (Wood Street) Ltd; NA

BT31/20265/118217

Tyne Dock Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20266/118221

Criterion Electric Theatre Gosport Ltd; NA BT31/13733/118255

Edgbaston Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/20270/118276

Parade Cinema, Margate, Ltd; NA BT31/13740/118391

Standard Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/13742/118418

Camberwell Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/5

High Shields Palace Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/128

Streatham Hill Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/128

Central Cinema, Cardiff, Ltd/Castle and Central Cinemas Ltd; CH 00118558

Cinema Theatres (Midlands) Ltd; NA BT31/20300/118561

Bishop’s Stortford Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/13750/118592

Cinema Palace, Hornsey Road, Ltd/Islington Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/20303/118595

Princes Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20305/118624

Victoria Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/689

Mirror Picture Theatres Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/20309/118680

Rhondda Fach Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/128

Doncaster Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/128

Premier Circuit Ltd; NA BT31/20314/118726

St Albans Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

*Eccles Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20317/118755

Grand Electric Theatre (Carlin How) Ltd; NA BT31/20321/118792

Blyth Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

§Brighton Court Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20330/118894

Picture Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/13765/118928

British Improved Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/20337/118953

Dudley Grand Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20338/118957

Surbiton Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20342/119010

Heath Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20343/119017

Kilburn and Hackney Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13771/119020

Lozells Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/128

Wallgate Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/20345/119044

Bloomsbury Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/13772/119050

Burnham Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20348/119075

Muswell Hill Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20351/119097

Ace Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20358/119135

Wood & Nicholson Ltd; NA BT31/20365/119185

‘G.M.B.’ Halls Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/20369/119225

Vint’s Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/32114/119240

Ideal Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13781/119257

Birmingham Cinema De Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/13782/119274

Jenkinson’s Pictures Ltd; BT95/??

Theatre de Luxe Ltd; NRS BT2/7838

Entertainment Investments Ltd; NRS BT2/7932

King’s Park Picture Theatre Ltd; NRS BT2/1971/672

Bellshill Hall Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1970/310

Glasgow Picture House Ltd; CH SC008021

Edinburgh Recreation Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8029

Vivian’s Pictures Ltd; NRS BT2/8039

Vitagraph Electric Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/8043

Dumfries Theatre Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1972/103

Atkinsons’ Electric Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/8058

Armadale Picturedrome Ltd; NRS BT2/8062

Coliseum (Edinburgh) Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8065

Hamilton Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8075

Langside Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8089

1912 Coronation Electric Theatre (Manor Park) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32116/119588

Hippodrome (Falkirk) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13804/119800

†‡Social Service Educative Entertainment Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/20443/119978

Prince’s Hall Cinema Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/129

†‡Folkestone Picture Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20467/120219

Heywood Pavilion Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13825/120270

‡§New Tredegar Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20479/120326

†‡Aberfan Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20480/120332

‡Middleton Picturedromes Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20495/120482

Star Circuit Electric Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13854/121200

Deal and Walmer Amusements Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/129

†‡Folkestone Central Picture Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20592/121359

*†‡Public Hall and Picture Theatre Company (Swinton) Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/20596/121388

Grosvenor Hall and Estate Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1229

†‡Littleborough Picture Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/39268+39269/121852

†‡Lyric Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20651/121854

†‡Redcar Palace of Varieties Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20652/121859

*†‡Chelmsford Empire and Hippodrome Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/20668/121981

†‡Irlams o’-th’-Height Picture Hall Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20725/122528

†‡Holloway Grand Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20728/122558

†‡Ebbw Vale Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20734/122603

†‡Granby Cinema Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20737/122631

‡Haté’s Cinema and Film Cleaning Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20750/122742

Dulwich Cino Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13924/122765

*†‡Pendlebury Picture Palace and Varieties Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20772/122932

‡Brynmawr Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13934/123070

Chesham Palace Picture and Concert Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1430

†‡Alcazar Picture Theatre (Hounslow) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20798/123170

†‡Cardigan Pavilion Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20844/123553

Brentwood Arcade and Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13954/123629

Llanelly Cinema Ltd [Public]; CH 00123954

Suburban Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13969/124019

†‡Kingsland Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20900/124052

‡Stanwix Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20912/124162

†‡People’s Picture Playhouse (Clerkenwell) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20912/124173

Coppull Pictures and Varieties Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/13983/124340

‡Cliftonville Entertainments Association Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20936/124391

Liverpool Palladium Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/747

Grand Cinema (Paddington) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/131

†‡Weston-super-Mare (Regent Street) Picture House Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/20965/124682

‡Clarence Picture House (Newport) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20974/124780

†Court House Assembly and Recreation Rooms Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/32138/125001

West’s Picture Playhouses (1912) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/20999/125018

*†‡West Ealing Kinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21014/125124

‡Acme Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21016/125146

†‡Wokingham Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21019/125168

Askern Picture House Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14010/125308

*†‡Cambridge Picture Playhouses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21036/125311

‡Rhymney Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21047/125402

Palace (Taunton) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14018/125489

Enfield Wash Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21071/125645

Ilford Amusements Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32143/125649

Abercynon Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14023/125655

National Gymnasia and Entertainments Ltd/National Entertainments Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/21082/125750

Birkdale Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/131

West Indian Developments (1912) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21096/125878

Hampstead Picture Playhouse Ltd [Public]; CH 00125904

Rothwell Empire Ltd [Public]; CH 00125959

Long Eaton New Palace Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/131

Honor Oak Park Electric Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14035/126030

†‡New Ashton Hippodrome Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21123/126167

†‡Scottish National Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8119

†‡Avenue Picture Theatre, Whiteinch, Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8262

†‡Carnoustie Public Hall Company (The Pavilion) Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8276

†‡Edinburgh Haymarket Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1973/509

‡De Luxe Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8353

†‡Scenic Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8360

†‡New City Road Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8385

†‡Kirkcaldy Kinema Palace Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8423

†‡Kirkcaldy Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8428

Dundee Princes Pictures Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8439

‡Falkirk Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1978/1245

†‡Parkhead Cross Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8466

†‡Greenock B.B. Cinema Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1972/210

‡Aberdeen Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; CH SC008494

Seaside Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/20391/119483

Premier Bioscope Ltd; NA BT31/13792/119516

Chorlton Pavilion Company Ltd; NA BT31/20396/119527

Lemington Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20397/119539

Atlas Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/13794/119546

Osborne Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20402/119599

Imperial Hall (Felling) Ltd; NA BT95/129

Tranmere Electric Palace and Billiard Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/20412/119687

*Obelisk Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20424/119787

Jacksdale Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/129

Screen Ltd; NA BT31/13804/119823

Electric Pavilion (Edgware Road) Ltd; NA BT31/20428/119830

Electric Playhouses Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/20429/119831

Eagle Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT95/603

Sittingbourne Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/1013

Bedford Palace Ltd; NA BT95/5

Bodmin Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20444/119990

Brighton Grand Concert Hall and Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20447/120018

T.W. Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13815/120057

Colonnade Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20450/120062

Savoy (Manchester) Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Picture Palladiums Ltd; NA BT31/20459/120142

Red Diamond Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13821/120167

Cleveland and District Electric Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13821/120178

Counties Picture Theatre Proprietary Company Ltd; NA BT31/20467/120216

Electric Pictures (Palmers Green) Ltd; NA BT31/20471/120267

*Jarrow Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20472/120272

Hammersmith Picture Playhouse Company Ltd; NA BT31/13831/120390

Barnet Cinema Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20486/120409

Pinxton Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/933

Crescent Cinema Theatre Company (Hulme) Ltd; NA BT31/20498/120495

East Hull Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20499/120512

Empress Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Sale Public Hall Ltd; NA BT31/129

Milnsbridge Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/??

Blue Halls Ltd; NA BT31/20506/120577

Pringle’s Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13840/120598

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Sunderland Cinematograph Company Ltd/Consolidated Cinematograph Companies Ltd;

NA BT95/603

Gnoll Picture and Variety Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

*Chesterton Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/20514/120637

Mile End Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13841/120645

Premier Picture Palace (Liverpool) Ltd; NA BT31/20515/120646

Cadishead Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20515/120659

*Blackley Empire Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20524/120722

Warrior Square Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/5

Bishop’s Stortford Electric Empire Ltd; NA BT31/20527/120746

*Castleford Empress Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20529/120766

Rumworth Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20531/120779

Windsor Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21019/125166

Alexandra Halls (Midlands) Ltd; NA BT95/5

*Don Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/39263+39264/120891

Bolton Picture Hall Co. Ltd; NA BT31/20545/120933

Cinema (Tunbridge Wells) Ltd; NA BT31/20547/120959

Devizes Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT31/20547/120961

East London Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/129

Brixton Proprietary Ltd; NA BT31/20552/121026

Great Hampton Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20556/121045

Omnium Electric Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/20559/121074

Brixton Palladium Ltd; NA BT31/20565/121104

British Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/20565/121105

Denton Palace Ltd; NA BT95/603

Stone Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/1013

Shows Ltd; NA BT31/13863/121200

Princess Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/20578/121228

Palladium Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/32123/121252

Barber’s Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/1283

Dudley Road (Birmingham) Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Wilmslow Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20586/121301

Empress Pictures (Clayton-le-Moors) Ltd; NA BT31/129

Kent Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/13867/121324

Perfect Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13868/121329

*Walkden Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20589/121332

Boulevard Electric Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/5

Bootle Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/20600/121400

Cymos Ltd; NA BT31/20606/121453

City of Exeter Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/5

Hessle Road Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/20608/121475

§Chertsey Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20610/121502

*Eureka Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20614/121534

Ammanford Pictorium Ltd; NA BT95/129

Crewe Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20616/121552

Essex Road Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/20616/121554

*Oxford Picturedrome (St Helens) Company Ltd; NA BT31/20620/121584

Empire (Plymouth) Ltd; NA BT95/1213

Open Air Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/13879/121627

Palace (Llanelly) Ltd; CH 00121654

Picture Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/20629/121658

Collyhurst Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20629/121664

Tivoli Picture Palace (Southport) Ltd; NA BT31/13882/121715

Greenwich Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20637/121725

Palace Electric Theatre Brentford Ltd; NA BT31/13882/121735

*Bramley Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20639/121748

Harrow Road Coliseum Ltd; NA BT31/13883/121757

*London Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/13884/121786

Barnsley, Parkgate & Rawmarsh Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20645/121796

Empire Theatre Company (Heywood) Ltd; NA BT31/20651/121845

United County Picture Halls Ltd; NA BT31/20655/121885

*Morris’ A1 Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/20656/121900

Goodall’s Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/13971/121927

Longton Pictures and Variety Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/20663/121953

Lyrics Ltd; NA BT31/20664/121954

Art Animated Pictures (Wales) Ltd; NA BT31/20668/121978

*Parkgate and Denaby Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20669/121991

Holderness Hall (Hull) Ltd; NA BT95/479

Caerphilly and District Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/20680/122132

Paisley Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/130

†Cinema Trust Company Ltd; NA BT31/32126/122162

Quadrant Properties Ltd; NA BT31/20685/122184

Everton Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/502

Greenwich Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT95/5

§New Empire Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13905/122271

West Manchester Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20697/122281

Staines Empire Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/1065

Alton Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20702/122329

Coliseum (Newport) Ltd; NA BT31/20702/122330

Picture House (Halifax) Ltd; NA BT31/13908/122357

Maida Vale Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20711/122406

Murton Empire Picture Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Palace Theatres Kettering Ltd; NA BT31/20715/122435

United Kingdom Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20716/122445

Anglo-Belgian Industries Ltd; NA BT31/20707/122367

St Enoch’s Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/5

Ystrad Mynach Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/1065

Universal Cinematographs Ltd; NA BT31/13916/122540

Bootle Palace Ltd; NA BT95/1208

South Wales Hippodromes Ltd; NA BT31/20728/122557

*Dingle Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20731/122580

*Crookes Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20733/122599

Gaiety Cinema (Grimsby) Ltd; NA BT31/20737/122630

Electra Picture Palace (Oldham) Ltd; NA BT31/20739/122652

Delaval Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/130

Platt Picturedrome Ltd; CH file lost

Prescot Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20746/122718

Delbarwick Pavilions Ltd; NA BT95/130

Anglo-Welsh Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20748/122733

Kinematograph Properties Ltd; NA BT31/20750/122743

Pavilion Picture Palace (Rochdale) Ltd; NA BT31/20750/122749

Burslem Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/20753/122763

London and Suburban Cinematograph Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20755/122786

Empress Picture Palace (Pendleton) Ltd; NA BT31/20756/122802

Olympia (Darlaston) Ltd; NA BT31/13926/122830

Berkhamsted Picture Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/20760/122841

Earle Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20763/122873

Prestwich Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20764/122880

Consett Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20766/122890

*Haswell Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20766/122895

Carlisle Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13928/122910

Shipley Pavilion Ltd; NA BT95/933

Wallasey Cinema Ltd; CH 00122993

Camden Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/13932/123004

New Enterprises Ltd; NA BT31/20779/123012

South Shore Pictures Company Ltd; NA BT31/20787/123084

Castle Theatres and Music Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/5

Claughton Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Gem Electric Theatres (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT95/5

Chapeltown Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/1819

Harehills Amusement Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Tibshelf Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/806

Palais Cinema Canterbury Ltd; NA BT31/13940/123194

Southern Counties Bioscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/13940/123198

South Shore Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/13940/123199

*Droylsden Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20802/123210

Fleetwood Empire and Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/20805/123240

Urmston Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20809/123254

Staffordshire Cinematograph (1912) Company Ltd; NA BT31/20813/123292

Great Bridge Electric Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Wednesbury Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Elsecar Electra Palace Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/5

Ilford Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/13947/123384

Bradford Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13947/123405

Cinemas of Great Britain Ltd; NA BT31/13948/123422

Aldershot Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/1383

Bingley Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT95/130

Paragon Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/20836/123477

Wycombe Electroscope Company Ltd; NA BT31/20837/123486

Marks Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13951/123506

Northgate Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/20839/123508

Stanhope Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/5

Manningham Kinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/479

Coalville Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/20844/123555

Stretford Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/130

Woolston Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/479

Palladium (Beeston, Notts) Ltd; NA BT95/502

Scala Electric Palace (Withington) Ltd; NA BT31/20856/123643

Great Clowes Street Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20857/123653

E. Hewitson Ltd; NA BT31/20859/123669

Kidderminster Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/20859/123675

Ashted Row Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/130

Ryhope Palace Ltd; CH 00123774

Midland Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Moseley Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/5

Mersey Halls Ltd; NA BT95/5

North Walsham Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/13961/123800

North Lancashire (Fleetwood) Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/747

Dronfield Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20879/123822

Midland Picturedromes & Hippodromes Ltd; NA BT31/20880/123834

South Coast Circuit of Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/13963/123842

Bright’s Electric Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/13963/123846

Hartley Cinema Ltd; CH 00123919

Coliseum (Leicester) Ltd; NA BT95/524

Askew Road Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/13966/123945

People’s Palace (Edmonton) Ltd; NA BT31/13968/123975

European Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/20895/124006

*Picture House (Sutton Coldfield) Ltd; NA BT31/20896/124015

National Enterprises Ltd; NA BT31/13971/124055

Golder’s Green Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/13971/124062

Moorlands Picture Palace Company (Burslem) Ltd; NA BT31/13971/124065

Ilford Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/13972/124084

Pyke’s Circuit Ltd; NA BT31/13975/124125

Signet Picture Supplies Ltd; NA BT31/20913/124175

Art Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT95/130

Tylorstown Coliseum Ltd; NA BT95/5

George Leyton’s Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/13979/124214

Whitstable Oxford Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/130

Duckworth Lane Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/20920/124233

†Leyton Cinema Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/20922/124242

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Northern Varieties Ltd; NA BT31/20922/124244

Throckley Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/13980/124260

Erith Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13980/124266

Hendon Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/20925/124268

Gaiety and Picturedrome (Barrow) Ltd; NA BT95/130

London Cinema Theatres Circuit Ltd; NA BT95/524

Stalybridge Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/13983/124353

Beeston Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/20933/124358

Bicester Cinema Co. Ltd/Loder & Co. Ltd; NA BT31/20933/124359

Lancashire Film Service Ltd; NA BT31/20934/124363

Palaceadium Ltd; NA BT95/603

Guisborough Empire Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/20935/124377

Palaseum Ltd; NA BT95/2445

†Alliance Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/20936/124385

Imperial Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/933

*Flint Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT31/20940/124423

*Olympia (Leicester) Ltd; NA BT31/13986/124458

Arcadia Palace Company, Swindon, Ltd; NA BT95/131

City, Suburban and Midland Picturedrome Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

Broadstairs Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/20947/124489

New Electra Palace (Leigh) Ltd; NA BT31/20948/124496

Belmont Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

Elite Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/524

Theatre de Luxe (Balham) Ltd; NA BT31/20951/124528

Variety Ventures Ltd; NA BT31/13989/124532

*People’s Perfect Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/20954/124567

‘Mirth’ Ltd; NA BT31/20956/124580

*Ilkley Electric Palace Ltd/East End Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA

BT31/20956/124577

Heywood Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/20957/124595

Canton Cinema Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/20959/124612

Empire Picture Theatre (Brighton) Ltd; NA BT31/13992/124615

Seven Kings Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/20963/124655

Farnworth Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/13993/124667

Perfect Play Houses Ltd; NA BT31/13993/124675

Darlington Alhambra Company Ltd; NA BT31/20966/124688

Ashton-under-Lyne Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/1472

Walton Road Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/131

Kino (South Shields) Ltd; NA BT31/13995/124725

Blackwood Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20969/124735

Coppull Electric Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/20970/124739

Grove Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/20973/124674

Maltby Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/13996/124766

Sinclair Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/20973/124770

Swadlincote Entertainment Company Ltd; NA BT95/1773

Electric Pavilion (Marble Arch) Ltd; NA BT31/20980/124850

Empire Picture Palace (Brownhills) Ltd; NA BT31/13999/124851

Northern Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/20983/124867

Canton (Cardiff) Coliseum Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

Palais De Luxe (Whitstable) Ltd; NA BT31/20988/124911

Victoria Picture Hall Company (Leeds) Ltd; NA BT31/20989/124923

Grove Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14001/124936

Northwood Hall Ltd; NA BT31/20991/124945

Savoy Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/20991/124947

Brecon Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/89

Dunston Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

Lambeth Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/20995/124987

Bradford and District Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14004/125061

Longsight Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21010/125089

Queen’s Park (Manchester) Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/14004/125092

Reddish Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/502

Stretford Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14005/125122

Pilot Palace Company Ltd; CH 00125141

Chiswick Palais Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21015/125131

Crumlin Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14005/125133

‡§Witney Electric Theatre Ltd; CH 00125167

Allotment Gem Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/21017/125147

Windsor Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21019/125166

Gaiety Cinema (Leytonstone) Ltd; NA BT31/21021/125180

Balham Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/14008/125198

Empress Picture House (Arnold) Ltd; NA BT31/21024/125210

Picture Palladiums (Twickenham) Ltd; NA BT31/21025/125223

Backhouse and Drinkwater Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/6

Central Pictures (Elland) Ltd; NA BT31/131

†Bethnal Green Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21027/125242

†§Up-to-Date Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/21029/125266

Stockport Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/6

Alhambra (Leicester) Ltd; NA BT31/14010/125269

*Farnham Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/21030/125270

Bridgwater Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14010/125309

Palace Theatre (Prudhoe) Ltd; NA BT31/21037/125322

Ancoats Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/21039/125348

Armstrong Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21040/125350

Palatine Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21041/125372

Empire Picture Palace (Stalybridge) Ltd; NA BT95/131

Bexhill Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21043/125380

*Maesteg Property Company Ltd; NA BT31/21044/125393

Stockton Palace Ltd; NA BT95/524

Stourport Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/1013

Coliseum (Sheffield) Ltd; NA BT95/502

Hippodromes (Chesterfield) Ltd; NA BT95/131

Park Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21054/125490

Brighouse Empire Company Ltd; NA BT31/21055/125498

Southern Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/89

Waterloo Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/131

Whitstable Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

Stoke Newington Electric Coliseum Ltd/Edgware Road Cinematograph Theatre Ltd;

NA BT31/21064/125582

Yeovil Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21065/125590

Picture House (Long Eaton) Ltd; NA BT31/21067/125604

Stoke Circuit of Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21070/125639

Alhambra Picture Palace Company (Leeds) Ltd; NA BT31/21070/125641

Globe Picture Palace (Rock Ferry) Ltd; NA BT31/14022/125646

Bishop Brothers Ltd; NA BT31/21071/125657

New Empress Cinema Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/21073/125670

Cheshire and North Wales Hippodromes Ltd; NA BT31/21074/125677

Lyceum Pictures (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT31/21075/125689

Golders Hill Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

English Picturedrome Company Ltd/Kinedrama Developments Ltd; NA

BT31/21077/125712

Rotherham and Masboro’ Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/14026/125743

Pendleton Pictures Company Ltd; NA BT95/131

Café-Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21082/125754

*†Matlock Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21084/125764

§Tivoli Hanley Ltd; NA BT31/14027/125769

Victoria Pictures (Hartshill) Ltd; NA BT95/131

Warsop Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/747

*Hay Mills and Yardley Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21088/125806

Crofton Park Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21093/125854

Eltham Cinema Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21093/125859

Eton Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21094/125860

Scala Electric Palace (Pendleton) Ltd; NA BT31/21095/125873

Palace (Erdington) Ltd; NA BT31/14030/125892

Middlesbrough Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/21098/125910

*Shoeburyness Palace Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/14031/125912

Wigan Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/14031/125914

Northumbrian Amusements Company Ltd; NA BT31/14032/125928

Borough Theatre Company (South Shields) Ltd; NA BT95/6

Palladium Pictures (Oldham) Ltd; NA BT95/131

Anglo-Cymric Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/14032/125965

Picture House (Oxford Street) Ltd; NA BT31/14033/125987

Shaftesbury Cinema Theatre Company (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT95/524

Alexandra Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/14035/126020

Wheatley Hill Palace Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21113/126054

Elite Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14037/126093

Leonagraphs Ltd; NA BT31/14037/126097

Newtown Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/??

*Cosmo Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21118/126117

Grand Cinema (Liverpool) Ltd; NA BT31/21119/126123

*Sherwood Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT31/42973+42974/126191

Milnrow Empire Ltd; NA BT95/132

Purple Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/132

Dreadnought Pictures Ltd; NRS BT2/8113

Partick Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8149

Greenock Picture Palace Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8154

North of Scotland Entertainments Ltd; CH SC008184

Edinburgh Entertainments Ltd; NRS BT2/8217

Central Picture Palace Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8220

Kirkintilloch Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1970/312

Rothesay Theatre de Luxe Ltd; NRS BT2/8229

Scottish Cinematograph Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8240

Leith Public Hall and Property Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1968/564

Palladium (Edinburgh) Ltd; NRS BT2/8255

Troon Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8264

Maryhill Picture Theatre Ltd/Dunoon Picture House Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8272

Maryhill Star Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/8278

Methil Picture Palace Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8288

Shotts Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8306

Wishaw Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/8316

Glasgow Photo Playhouse Ltd; CH SC008329

Picture House, Campbeltown, Ltd; CH SC008354

Eglinton Electreum Ltd; NRS BT2/8369

Palace (Edinburgh) Ltd; NRS BT2/8375

Shawlands Cross Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8379

Renfrew Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/8387

Govan Central Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8388

Picture Salon Ltd; NRS BT2/8392

Mossend Theatre Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8404

Gaiety Theatre (Dundee) Ltd; NRS BT2/8407

Cinem Varieties Ltd; NRS BT2/8413

Wishaw Cinema House Ltd; NRS BT2/8421

Tollcross Cinema Ltd; NRS BT2/8424

Kilbowie Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8444

East of Fife Electric Cinematograph Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8447

†Hillhead Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8454

Tron Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8462

Motherwell Cinema House Ltd; NRS BT2/8468

Motherwell Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1970/313

Cathcart Picture Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/1978/409

Newmilns Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8496

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Corona Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8499

1913 *†‡Kensal Rise Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21135/126275

Picturedrome (Higher Broughton) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14042/126280

Dewsbury Picture House Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/132

Sutton Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/132

Edinburgh and District Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/132

†‡Tredegar Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21209/126946

Lyceum (Taunton) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1254

Freehold Securities (Sheffield) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14064/127126

Leeds and District Cinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21248/127282

Alcazar Picture Theatre (Finchley) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14069/127307

Battersea Park Picture Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14071/127401

‡Herne Hill Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21265/127413

Llanhilleth Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21268/127444

†‡Shrewsbury Cinematograph Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21273/127479

Bonanza Cinema Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14074/127506

Alcazar Picture Theatre (Edmonton) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/132

Princess Entertainment Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/132

†‡Kendal Kinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21294/127689

†‡New Ferry Lyceum Picture Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21294/127695

Britannic Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14079/127729

†‡Landore Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21309/127811

‡Bristol Picture Houses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21324/127899

Pictureland Vendors Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21326/127912

Grand Centrals Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21345/128095

‡Hastings and St Leonards Cinema de Luxe Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/21350/128126

Life Targets Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21355/128159

Paignton Picture House Ltd [Public]; CH 00128359

Walthamstow Grand Central Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14095/128391

Worthing Cinema Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14098/128487

Carlton Cinematograph Theatre (Walthamstow) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/689

*†‡Wood Green Picture Palladium Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32155/128546

Seaforth Palladium Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/133

†‡Knowle Picture House Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21415/128622

Ring Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14101/128663

Scala Theatre (Preston) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14102/128688

†Pictureland (Berwick) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32155/128717

Life Targets (South America) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14105/128850

Empire Palace (Denaby) Ltd [Public]; CH 00128874

‡Padiham Amusements Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21466/129068

Yorkshire Grand Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14112/129103

Pontypool Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1588

Park Cinema Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14116/129273

Annfield Plain Investments Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21494/129305

†‡Hitchin Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21496/129317

Picture House (Morley) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/933

Franco-Eastern Cynemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21502/129356

Natural Pictures and Palaces Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14122/129452

Liverpool Palais de Luxe Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/133

‘Mascot’ Cinemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32157/129621

†‡Bedford Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21538/129668

Londesborough Theatre and Picture House (Scarborough) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/603

‡Penydarren Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21543/129699

Belvedere Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14127/129727

†Bosco’s Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21561/129770

‡Tilbury Alhambra and Cinema Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21564/129790

Hythe Picture Palace (1913) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/133

Cinema Promotions and General Development Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/14130/129843

†‡Weston Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21583/129933

Manningham Pictures Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21585/129953

†‡Birkenhead ‘Palladium’ Picture Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21548/129975

Willmore Brothers Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1816

Aberaman Cinemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21599/130105

Banbury Grand Theatre (1913) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14139/130234

Wrexham Hippodrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14140/130259

United Kingdom Life Targets Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14146/130473

†Rice Lane Picture House Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32161/130551

Liverpool Majestic Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/1013

Eastville Hippodrome Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/747

Kingston Coliseum Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21659/130615

Wells Picture House Ilkley Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14151/130644

Grays Palace Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21669/130708

Barrow & Walney Picture Palaces Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21672/130746

†C. & M. Routledge Ltd/Coliseum (Barrow) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32162/130762

Alcazar Picture Theatre (Highbury) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14157/130867

Chalet Cinema (Hounslow) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14157/130870

Thornton Heath Pond Kinematograph Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/14159/130956

Picture Halls Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/134

*†‡Orpheum Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21702/131032

Stanford-le-Hope Cinema Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14164/131074

‡West Wight Cinema Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21710/131092

Grimethorpe Empire Palace Ltd [Public]; CH 00131145

Leicester Enterprise Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/134

Westhoughton Entertainments [Public]; NA BT95/134

Edgware Alhambra and Cinema Hall Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21726/131248

Alhambra Theatre (Barnsley) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/524

Wallington Picture Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21745/131434

†‡Chorlton-cum-Hardy Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21746/131440

Picture Palace (Clapham Junction) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14174/131453

Unique Kinematograph Theatres Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14174/131456

North Wales Picture Houses Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14176/131575

Sporting and Military Targets Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21762/131577

Empire Cinema (Mossley) Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/??

Prospect Picture House (Hull) Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14181/131734

‡Hornchurch Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21790/131803

Grand Alhambra Cinemas Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14186/131920

Mitcham Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/14190/132117

†‡ ‘Strand’ (Hull) Picture Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21841/132209

*†‡A.U.M. Picture, Song and Story Combine Ltd/Olympia (Tredegar) Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/21845/132242

Globe Picture House (Barnsley) Ltd [Public]; CH 00132345

Homer Cinema Ltd [Public]; NA BT95/134

†‡Crowthorne Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21879/132506

Stockwell Palladium Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/32172/132550

†‡Briton Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; NA BT31/21897/132647

Rhos-on-Sea Songland Picturedrome & Variety Theatre Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/14201/132666

Addiscombe (Croydon) Picture Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; NA

BT31/14201/132702

†‡Dunfermline Cinema House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8516

‡Rothesay Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8578

†‡Oban Cinema House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1974/639

†‡Kelso’s La Scala Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8708

St Andrews Cinema House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1981/8725

Gorgie Photo Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8750

†‡Empire Electric Theatre, Grangemouth, Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8744

Alloa Picture Palace Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1970/309

Regent Hotel and Picture House Company Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8888

Cinerama (Edinburgh) Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8890

Haworth Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT95/132

Henderson’s (North of England) Film Bureau Ltd; NA BT95/89

Longford Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/14043/126316

National Cinemas (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT31/21141/126318

Cathays Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/132

A.M. Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14044/126354

County Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/14045/126361

Lewes Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/603

Barking Broadway Bioscope Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/132

*Brodsworth and Adwick-le-Street Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA

BT31/21149/126413

Palace Theatre (Luton) Ltd; NA BT31/21154/126445

Sidcup and District Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21154/126449

Blackpool Central Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/1013

Hoddesdon Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21166/126554

New Pavilion and Electric Theatre (Lees) Ltd; NA BT31/14051/126582

Cosy Corner Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/132

New Central Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/1312

Temple Fortune Kinema Ltd; NA BT31/14053/126647

Pictorium Ltd; NA BT95/132

Majestic (Kinema Clapham) Ltd; NA BT31/21178/126665

Dundee Cinema Palace Ltd; NA BT95/689

Blaenavon Coliseum Ltd; NA BT31/21179/126676

Tottenham Picture Forum Ltd; NA BT31/21183/126702

Balsall Heath Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/6

Butler Street Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/132

Purbeck Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14055/126733

Wolverhampton, Walsall and District Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21187/126743

Elite Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14055/126748

Palace (Bredbury) Ltd; NA BT95/132

Palace (Runcorn) Ltd; NA BT31/21190/126779

South East Durham Animated Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21191/126787

Buckley Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/132

Garforth Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

East Kent Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/21194/126801

Palladium Picture Company (Dartmouth) Ltd; NA BT31/21198/126839

Newington Green Picture Palace Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/21202/126870

Forest Gate Estates Ltd; NA BT31/21208/126925

*Stepney Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21209/126944

Alpha Enterprises Ltd; NA BT95/6

Nevill Street Picture House (Southport) Ltd; NA BT31/21211/126972

Leyton High Road (Stratford) Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

Electric Pavilion (Lavender Hill) Ltd; NA BT31/21216/127016

Knightsbridge Picture Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/14062/127045

Edward van Biene and George H. Child Ltd/Palacette Ltd; NA BT31/21221/127063

*Knottingley Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21248/127281

‘Gem’ Electric Theatre (Bristol) Ltd; NA BT95/6

Queen Street Maidenhead Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21224/127090

Lyric (Leicester) Ltd; NA BT31/21226/127109

Aintree Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/132

Ludgershall Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21229/127132

Sutton and Kirkby Picture Palaces Company Ltd; NA BT95/747

Newton Abbot Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21231/127157

Central Picture Palace (Liverpool) Ltd; NA BT31/21233/127173

*Oxford Picture Theatre Company (Erith) Ltd; NA BT31/21236/127189

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Old Swan Picturedrome Company Ltd; NA BT31/21240/127207

Pontyberem Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/502

Empire Kinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21241/127218

Gaiety Amusement Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/21244/127243

Travelling Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/14067/127261

Bee Hive Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT95/132

*Aston Cross Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21250/127294

Macclesfield Electric Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21253/127325

Seaford Empire Company Ltd; CH 00127352

West Riding Picture Pavilions Ltd; NA BT31/21258/127356

Croydon Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21259/127362

Gorton Labour Hall Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14070/127365

W.H.K. Trust Ltd; NA BT31/21261/127378

Cottingham Coliseum Company Ltd; NA BT31/21264/127403

*Roy Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/21267/127425

*Palatial Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21269/127448

Nelson Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/6

Alpha Picture Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14073/127457

Hawthorne and King Ltd; NA BT95/132

*Wingate Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21278/127537

Brooks’ Bar Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21279/127542

Darnall Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21279/127543

Ellesmere Port and District Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14074/127545

*†Ellesmere Port Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21279/127546

Cirencester Entertainment Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

Splott (Cardiff) Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/132

West Ham Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21285/127591

Houldsworth Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/1313

Cotteridge Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21286/127597

*East Dereham & District Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21286/127600

North British Film Service Ltd; NA BT31/21287/127606

Burley Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/502

Burton-upon-Trent Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/132

Star Picture Hall (Bury) Ltd; NA BT95/132

Cabbage Hall Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/132

Darlaston Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21307/127805

Electric Pictures (Rushey Green) Ltd; NA BT31/21314/127837

Scala (Coventry) Ltd; NA BT31/21316/127853

Empire Theatre (Earby) Ltd; NA BT31/21318/127874

Woking Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21322/127893

Clifton (Cardiff) Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/6

Kosmos Kinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/132

North Metropolitan Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21334/128004

Regent Street Land Syndicate Wrexham Ltd; NA BT31/21335/128007

Baldock Cinema Company Ltd; CH 00128018

*Clacton-on-Sea Kinema Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/21336/128021

Palatine Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/1359

Woolley Bridge Palace Ltd; NA BT95/6

Sun Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21344/128088

New Theobalds Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21347/128105

Risca Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21351/128140

Ideal Picture House (King’s Heath) Ltd; NA BT31/21355/128156

Sheffield Park Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/689

Cinema Parent Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/21356/128174

Ninian Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/6

Grand Palace (Poplar) Ltd; NA BT31/21365/128232

Pengam and Fleur de Lis Cinema and Billiard Hall Ltd; NA BT31/32153/128231

Rotherhithe Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/14092/128246

Metropolitan and District Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14092/128268

Brockley Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/132

Highgate Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/132

United Picture Company (St Helens) Ltd; NA BT31/21373/128297

Grand Picture Theatre Company (Levenshulme) Ltd; NA BT31/21375/128309

Northwich Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/21380/128334

Cecil Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/132

Wakefield Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/1294

Hull Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/21385/128376

Rusholme Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/6

Ealing Hippodrome Ltd; NA BT31/14096/128404

Salisbury Cinema (Bermondsey) Ltd; NA BT31/21393/128461

*Brinksway Pictorium Ltd; NA BT31/21394/128468

Canadian Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/14097/128469

Cinema Properties and Equipment Ltd; NA BT31/21394/128470

Picture House (Lydney) Ltd; NA BT95/603

Romsey Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21395/128496

*Norman Road Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21407/128562

Preston Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21408/128564

Blakeborough Ltd; CH 00128603

Failsworth Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21413/128602

Westmoors Ltd; NA BT31/21411/128590

Electra Palace (Royton) Ltd; NA BT31/21414/128614

Lee Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21415/128623

Era Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/6

Caledonian Electric Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14101/128642

County Picture Houses Ltd; NA BT31/14101/128663

Newark Kinema Ltd; NA BT31/21423/128685

Mile End Palladium Ltd; NA BT95/6

Winchester Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/6

*Pershore Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21426/128716

St James’ Hall (Cinema) Ltd; NA BT31/21427/128721

Stoke Newington Cinematograph Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21428/128725

Haslemere Cinema Company Ltd; CH 00128740

Chatham and District Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21433/128766

Dalesford Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/14104/128769

Palladium (Southport) Ltd; NA BT31/21439/128804

Walton-on-Naze Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/14104/128814

London and Eastern Counties Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/6

Palace (Ilfracombe) Ltd; NA BT31/21441/128828

Pringle’s (Zetland Road) Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14105/128829

Heeley Coliseum Ltd; NA BT95/552

G.H. Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21443/128845

Old Ford Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

Anima Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

Cinema Agency and Finance Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

New Central Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/133

*Carlton Theatre (Swansea) Ltd; NA BT31/21452/128922

Prince’s Picture Palace (Whaley Bridge) Ltd; NA BT95/133

Gorleston Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21453/128943

Great Crosby Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21453/128944

Life Targets (Southend) Ltd; NA BT31/14109/128980

Balham Palladium Ltd; NA BT31/21459/128988

Blackpool Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/14109/128989

National Productions Ltd; NA BT31/14109/129007

Tunbridge Wells Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14110/129013

Criterion Theatre (Gosport) Ltd; NA BT31/14110/129036

British Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14111/129054

Crown Cinema (Acton) Ltd; NA BT95/6

Pembroke Dock Grand Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/1815

Auto Electric Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/21468/129079

Bilston Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21469/129080

Entente Cordiale Ltd; NA BT31/21470/129089

Empress Picture Theatre (Islington) Ltd; NA BT95/6

*†East Grinstead Cinema de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/21473/129111

Premier Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14114/129173

Keswick Alhambra Theatre Company Ltd; CH 00129196

Redditch Palace Ltd; NA BT95/1437

*Abertillery (1913) Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21484/129205

*Oxford Picture Palace (Sheffield) Ltd; NA BT31/21486/129224

Whitehall Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

Crouch End Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/21488/129233

Novocastria Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21490/129252

Arundell Ltd; NA BT95/6

Century Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/14116/129255

County Forum Ltd; NA BT31/14116/129258

Cinema Forum (Bradford) Ltd; NA BT95/133

Poplar Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/6

Bloxwich Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21494/129308

Nelson Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21498/129327

Sydenham New Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/14118/129333

Green Lane Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/6

Cheshire Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21500/129347

*Empire Picture Palace Company (Barrowford) Ltd; NA BT31/21501/129352

European Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/14119/129353

Albion Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/1523

Picture Theatre Development Company Ltd; NA BT31/21507/129400

Bexley Heath Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/1988

St George’s Hall Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14122/129456

*City Picture Palace Company (York) Ltd; NA BT31/21514/129462

Brentwood Electric Palace Ltd; CH 00129485

‘Suitu’ Exclusive Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/21522/129529

Mortlake Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21529/129586

Millfield Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/1465

Whitwell and District Cinema Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

Kirkdale Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/35115/129619

Silverhill Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21533/129627

Beaufort Cinema and Billiard Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

South Western Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21540/129683

Queen’s Hall (Church) Ltd; NA BT95/133

Dinnington Palace Ltd; NA BT95/133

Barnes Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/14127/129706

Lockwood & Lewis Ltd; NA BT31/21547/129737

Great Marlow Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21560/129756

E. Palfry & Company Ltd; NA BT31/21562/129775

*Shepshed Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21571/129857

G.I.R. Ltd; NA BT31/14131/129867

Cheadle (Staffs) Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21575/129893

Star Kinema (Fulham) Ltd; NA BT31/21577/129909

Victoria Theatre Derby Ltd; NA BT31/21577/129910

Wood Green Central Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21578/129911

*Parliament Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21581/129926

World’s Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/14131/129934

Lymington and New Forest Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/479

Dartford Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

Cinema Rotherham Ltd; NA BT31/21555/130014

*Lion Electric Theatres (Rotherhithe) Ltd; NA BT31/21591/130051

*Wolverhampton Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/21592/130062

British Zodiac Film Company Ltd; NA BT31/14135/130065

Life Targets (Isle of Man) Ltd; NA BT31/21597/130087

Shotton and Queensferry Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT95/1945

Pleasure Beach Life Targets Company Ltd; NA BT31/14137/130152

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Amman Alpha Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/6

Star Picture Palace (Gravelly Hill) Ltd; NA BT31/14137/130182

Abergavenny Coliseum Ltd; CH 00130212

*Nottingham Scala Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21611/130226

West of England Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21612/130229

Ashton Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/14139/130233

St James Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT95/133

Ashby’s Projections Ltd; NA BT31/21616/130264

C. & B. Cinemas Ltd/Hammersmith Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21616/130266

Wolverhampton Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/21618/130281

Red Hall Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21622/130305

Halesowen Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/14141/130323

Peckham Property Company Ltd; NA BT31/21628/130358

Wellington Hall Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21629/130363

Launceston Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21631/130368

Scala (Birmingham) Ltd; NA BT31/21634/130393

Premier Picture Palace Company (Skipton) Ltd; NA BT31/21638/130418

Alexandra Theatre, Derby, Ltd; NA BT95/133

Saltley Grand Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

West Green Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14146/130475

Ashton-in-Makerfield Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/502

*Heath Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21653/130577

Ashwells Ltd; NA BT31/21645/130510

*Olympic Picture Palace (Bradford) Ltd; NA BT31/21654/130582

Grand Cinema (Evesham) Ltd; NA BT31/21656/130597

Portsmouth Life Shooting Ranges Ltd; NA BT31/14150/130603

Glyn-Neath Picture and Variety Company Ltd; NA BT95/133

Belmont Road Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/6

Coatsworth Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT95/479

St Austell Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21673/130759

Smallthorne Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/133

Alexandra Cinema Company (Edgeley) Ltd; NA BT95/479

Exclusive Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/14155/130802

Clozenberg and Hopkins Ltd; NA BT31/21678/130815

Northampton Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21679/130823

Clavering & Beck Ltd/Kilburn Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21680/130832

Popular Picture Palace (Hulme) Ltd; NA BT95/747

Brixton Entertainers Ltd; NA BT31/14156/130845

Regent Picture House (Bradford) Ltd; NA BT95/133

Grand Electric Theatre Hanwell (1913) Ltd; NA BT31/21685/130876

R.W.L.T. Ltd; NA BT31/21685/130880

Cardiff Castle Picture Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/21686/130886

Springfield Picture Play House Ltd; NA BT95/133

London Road Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/133

Progressive Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21696/130972

West Bromwich Olympia Ltd; NA BT31/21698/130995

Globe (Nottingham) Ltd; NA BT95/134

Broadway Cinema (Ealing) Ltd; NA BT31/14161/131000

Grainger Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

New Paragon Palaces (1913) Ltd; NA BT31/14163/131046

Altrincham Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/806

Central Picture Palace, Warrington, Ltd; NA BT31/14163/131060

Norton Lodge Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21705/131066

Cleethorpes Empire Ltd; NA BT95/524

People’s Kinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/6

South of England Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/14166/131154

Entertainments (Swinton) Ltd; NA BT31/21719/131165

Penygroes Recreation Co. Ltd; NA BT31/21721/131181

Hoxton Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21723/131207

Boston Scala Theatre Ltd; NA BT95/1684

Fareham and District Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/6

Eastern Counties Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14168/131227

North Western Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21725/131235

West Riding Cinema Co. Ltd; NA BT31/21730/131279

Snodland Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/134

Mexborough Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/14170/131306

Romiley Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/14170/131311

Haydn Kinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21734/131325

Shakespeare Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21739/131373

Albert Road Empire (Farnworth) Ltd; NA BT31/14173/131419

Central Cinema Company (Newton Heath) Ltd; NA BT95/2454

Palace Theatre (Swansea) Ltd; NA BT95/134

*Bath Coliseum Ltd; NA BT31/21752/131499

Hither Green Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21754/131508

*Kino (Six Bells) Company Ltd; NA BT31/21755/131512

Princess Cinema (Bolton) Ltd; NA BT31/21755/131516

Tower Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21758/131541

Circuit Picture Theatre Co. Ltd; NA BT31/21759/131545

*Cwmaman Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21766/131610

Globe Cinema, Hither Green, Ltd; NA BT31/14178/131612

Halifax Cosey Corner Ltd; CH 00131639

Albert Hall Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/14178/131628

Queen’s Hall Kinema (Sunderland) Ltd; NA BT31/21775/131675

Electric Theatres (Mexborough) Ltd; NA BT31/21776/131687

*Woodhouse Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/21778/131699

Gorseinon Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/1013

Littleport Electric Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21779/131711

Bankfoot Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/134

Skewen Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/14182/131753

Modern Picture Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/21790/131807

Palatine Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT95/134

*Gem Pictures (Yeadon) Ltd; NA BT31/21799/131899

Eccleshall and Endcliffe Picture Palace Ltd; CH 00131917

Honley Palladium Ltd; NA BT95/134

Fare’s Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/21803/131938

Rennergraph Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21805/131950

Roker Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT31/21815/132025

Grangetown Paragon Picture Company Ltd; CH 00132041

London Road (Liverpool) Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21817/132044

Wembley Hall Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21820/132053

Caerau Coliseum Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Eastbourne Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21820/132060

Beckenham Picture Playhouse Ltd; NA BT31/21822/132071

Loughborough Playhouse Ltd; NA BT95/134

Scala Brixton Ltd; NA BT31/21827/132121

Thorne Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT31/21828/132122

Kilburn Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/21828/132132

*Seven Sisters Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/21829/132136

Ely Valley Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/134

Reliance Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/479

Tyseley Picture Palace (Warwick Road) Ltd; NA BT31/21838/132187

Haydock Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/21839/132198

*Shaftesbury and Gillingham Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/21841/132207

Chorley Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14192/132222

Seacombe Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/14192/132235

Gravesend Gem Theatre Company Ltd; NA BT95/747

Putney Assembly Rooms Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/14194/132308

Mediterranee Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/21855/132324

Empire Kinema Plumstead Ltd; NA BT31/21859/132366

Excellenza Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/7

Tower Picture Palace, Hull, Ltd; NA BT95/1989

Roydon Picture Palace Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/14196/132450

Felixstowe Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/134

C.H. Ltd; NA BT31/21873/132457

Anglo-Scottish Pictureland Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/14197/132500

Picture House, Swindon (1913) Ltd; NA BT31/21880/132513

Picture Playhouses (Rhos) Ltd; NA BT31/21884/132545

Chesterfield and Brampton Coliseum Ltd; NA BT31/21886/132564

Picture Playhouse, Norbury, Ltd; NA BT31/14199/132600

Warrington Kinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21892/132618

Corona Picture House (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT31/21902/132678

*Fleet Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/21903/132681

Marlborough Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/21904/132690

Palladium (Glos.) Ltd; NA BT95/134

Hackney Pavilion Ltd; NA BT31/21905/132715

Blaengarw Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/7

Provincial Empire Theatres Ltd; NA BT95/134

Cleveland (Hull) Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/134

Birmingham Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/21914/132800

*Preston Casinos and Picture Palaces Ltd; NA BT31/21918/132838

Haddon Hall Ltd; NA BT95/134

Old Town Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/134

Villa Cross Picture House (Handsworth) Ltd; NA BT31/14205/132844

Paragon Picturedrome (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT31/21922/132873

West End Film Corporation Ltd; NA BT31/21926/132917

Netherfield Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/21937/132996

Boldon Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/134

Wrexham Entertainments Ltd; NA BT95/134

Victoria Palace (Girlington) Ltd; NA BT31/21943/133057

Thames Valley Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/14209/133091

United Films Ltd; NA BT31/14209/133092

Cinema Palace (Goole) Ltd; NA BT31/21951/133101

United Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/21953/133120

Cumnock Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1976/492

Portobello Picture Palace Ltd; NRS BT2/8515

†Greenock Photo Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/8517

Queen’s Rooms Cinema Syndicate Ltd; CH SC008524

La Scala Ltd; NRS BT2/1975/543

Edinburgh Photo Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/8530

Musselburgh Pavilion Ltd; NRS BT2/8555

Leith Photo Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/8570

Coatbridge Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8595

Eclipse Pictures Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1979/1679

City Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8604

Coatbridge Cinema Ltd; NRS BT2/1970/563

Morningside Photo Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/8624

St Vincent Syndicate Ltd; NRS BT2/8635

Scottish Picture Houses Ltd; NRS BT2/8636

North Star Cinema Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1989/8641

Gourock Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1973/512

La Scala (Dunfermline) Ltd; NRS BT2/8670

Scott’s Hawick Pavilion Ltd; NRS BT2/8678

Regent Photo Playhouse Ltd; NRS BT2/8687

Palace Cinema Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/8694

Alloa Theatre Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1978/1193

Kilwinning Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8707

Motherwell Entertainments Ltd; NRS BT2/8738

Auchinleck Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1969/271

Bon-Accord Cinematograph Syndicate Ltd; NRS BT2/8756

Helensburgh Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1987/8778/2

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Dalry Picture House Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8788

Anglo-American Amusements Ltd; NRS BT2/8802

Falkirk Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/1970/311

†La Scala Photo Playhouse Company (Aberdeen) Ltd; NRS BT2/8822

Fauldhouse Theatre Ltd; NRS BT2/1977/5

African Cinema Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8857

‘New Kinema’ Kilbowie Ltd; NRS BT2/8885

Central Cinema Syndicate Ltd; NRS BT2/8901

1914 West’s Pictures (Bournemouth) Ltd [Public]; BT31/21957/133156

‡Picturedrome (Worthing) Ltd [Public]; BT31/21985/133386

Rhodes’ Pictures Ltd [Public]; BT95/135

*Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd [Public]; BT31/44141+44142

‡Winton (Bournemouth) Electric Palace Ltd [Public]; BT31/21989/133416

Portsmouth (Picture) Palladium Ltd [Public]; BT31/21995/133444

Parade Cinema, Margate (1914) Ltd [Public]; BT95/135

†‡Lansdowne Pictures Ltd [Public]; BT31/36349/133689

Picture Theatres Financial Trust Ltd [Public]; BT31/22041/133787

†‡Grange Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; BT31/22048/133853

Ilkley Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; BT31/22057/133927

Rugby Empire Ltd [Public]; BT31/14222/134026

Spalding Hippodrome Ltd [Public]; BT31/14223/134077

Lyceum (Whittington Moor) Picture & Variety Palace Ltd [Public]; BT95/??

†Grosvenor Picture Palace Company Ltd [Public]; BT31/32177/134365

†‡Pictureland (Morpeth) Ltd [Public]; BT31/32177/134459

†‡Central Picture Theatre and Café (Hull) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22173/134941

Pictureland (South Shields) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22157/134784

†‡York Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT31/22172/134932

Prescot Theatres Ltd [Public]; BT31/22174/134950

‡Palace Theatre & Varieties Company (Haslingden) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22187/135039

Morton’s Pictures Ltd [Public]; BT31/33792/135100

Tunnel Road Picturedrome Ltd [Public]; BT95/1589

†‡West Park Picture Palace (Hull) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22224/135339

Walkley Palladium Ltd [Public]; BT95/524

†‡Sheffield Premier Pictures Ltd [Public]; BT31/22234/135419

Albert Gate Cinema Palace Ltd [Public]; BT31/22235/135428

St George’s, Canterbury, Theatre Company Ltd [Public]; BT31/32182/135487

†‡Savoy (Liverpool) Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT31/22248/135557

‡Margate Cinema De Luxe Ltd [Public]; BT31/22258/135651

‡Globe (Attercliffe) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22265/135725

Lancaster Palladium Ltd [Public]; BT95/??

‡Elm Row Palace, Edinburgh (1914) Ltd [Public]; BT31/32185/135889

‡Burslem Coliseum Ltd [Public]; BT31/22306/136032

Grand Theatre and Cinema Company (Cockermouth) Ltd [Public]; BT95/1432

†‡Buxton Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT31/22324/136174

Spalding Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT95/14223/134077

†‡Staveley Town Picture & Variety Palace Ltd [Public]; BT31/22361/136434

Rutland Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT95/136

Tooting Electric Pavilion Ltd [Public]; BT31/22365/136468

†‡Garston Empire and Picture Theatre Ltd [Public]; BT31/22369/136504

Gaiety Cinema (Liverpool) Ltd [Public]; BT31/32189/136700

‡Oxford Hall (Keighley) Ltd [Public]; BT31/32189/136813

Palladium (Doncaster) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22424/136935

Counties Cinema (Patricroft) Ltd [Public]; BT95/136

Norton Cinema Ltd [Public]; BT31/22432/136993

United Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; BT31/22447/137108

Lincoln Picture House Ltd [Public]; BT95/136

Scandinavian Theatres and Cinemas Ltd [Public]; BT31/22481/137383

Palace (Royston) Ltd [Public]; CH 00137492

*‡Merthyr Electric Theatres Ltd [Public]; BT31/36351/137500

Askern Pavilion (Yorkshire) Ltd [Public]; BT31/22527/137780

*†Pontypridd Palladium Company Ltd [Public]; BT31/32199/138754

Southfields Lyceum Ltd [Public]; BT31/22640/138773

Shotts Empire Theatre Ltd [Public]; CH SC008943

†‡Maryhill Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8964

Hyndland Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/8988

†‡Grand Central Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1976/1339

Olympia (Newtongrange) Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/9089

Invergordon Picture Playhouse Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/9147

Partick Star Palace Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/9150

‡Palace (Arbroath) Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/9201

Cranston’s Picture House Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/1989/9202

‡North of Scotland Cinematograph Company Ltd [Public]; NRS BT2/9204

E.T.H. Ltd; NA BT31/14210/133162

Notting Hill Gate Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21961/133190

Graphic Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/21962/133201

Blaina Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/134

Gaiety Picture House (Hull) Ltd; NA BT31/21968/133246

Northallerton Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/134

Westgate Syndicate Ltd; NA BT95/7

Anglo-African Cinema and Trading Company Ltd; NA BT31/14211/133276

Kinema Shooting Ranges Ltd; NA BT31/14212/133312

Grassmoor Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/21978/133328

Blackhall Mill Palace Ltd; NA BT95/7

North Notts Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/14213/133348

Listerhills Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/134

People’s Popular Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/21984/133385

Orford Lane (Warrington) Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/39288+39289/133405

Leicester Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/135

Port Talbot and Aberavon Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/21991/133425

Stirchley Empire Ltd; NA BT95/135

Coliseum (Clapham Junction) Ltd; NA BT31/21995/133448

Oxford Street Shooting Range Ltd; NA BT31/21997/133457

Midland Counties Cinema Circuit Ltd; NA BT31/22011/133565

Clydach Vale Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/22018/133597

Six Bells Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/22023/133644

Cannock Picturedrome Company Ltd; NA BT95/2164

S.W. Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/22033/133715

London & County Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/22035/133731

*Ward End Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22036/133745

Broadway Palladium (Ealing) Ltd; NA BT31/22036/133749

Ritz Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/22038/133765

*Cromer Theatre of Varieties Ltd; NA BT31/22039/133773

Prince of Wales Road Cinema Palace Ltd; NA BT31/22041/133788

Walton-on-Thames Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22042/133799

Warwick Hippodrome Company Ltd; NA BT31/22042/133800

Kidwelly Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22043/133813

*Whitby Coliseum Ltd; NA BT31/22050/133864

*B. & N. Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/22055/133913

*Roath Park Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22060/133959

Picture House (Doncaster) Ltd; NA BT95/502

Oxford Palace, New Whittington, Ltd; NA BT95/603

A.J. Vasey & Co. Ltd; NA BT31/22063/133984

Combined Cinema Coliseums Ltd; NA BT31/22064/133989

Pictures and Varieties Ltd; NA BT95/135

Wombwell Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/22070/134052

Cinevars Ltd; NA BT31/22076/134086

Undercliffe Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT31/135

*Rutland Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/22083/134146

Llandudno Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/1175

Cinema Palace, Brighton, Ltd; NA BT31/14225/134219

Swadlincote Alexandra Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Hednesford Empire Ltd; NA BT31/14225/134263

Potteries Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/22099/134287

Sherburn Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT95/135

*Derby Picture Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/22112/134404

Alhambra, Morecambe, Ltd; CH 00134423

Globe Theatre Company (Manchester) Ltd; NA BT95/502

Blake Bros Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/32177/134476

Zetland and Cheltenham Road Halls Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

*Tylorstown Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/22125/134519

Kinema Shooting Ranges (Europe) Ltd; NA BT31/22131/134576

Bolton Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT95/1877

East Ham Broadway Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/135

Cross Keys (Monmouthshire) Coliseum Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Horwich Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/??

Poplar Picture Hall Co. Ltd; NA BT31/22167/134877

*Salford New Central Hall Picture Company Ltd; NA BT31/22170/134907

Morriston Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/22171/134923

Grand Theatre (Nuneaton) Ltd; NA BT31/22174/134948

*Bournbrook Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/22183/135011

Bohemia Cinema and Gardens Ltd; NA BT31/22188/135045

G.W.L. Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/22194/135094

Kinema (Grimsby) Ltd; NA BT31/22196/135113

Magnet Cinema Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/22199/135141

Exeter Palladium Ltd; NA BT31/22203/135176

Trowbridge Palace Ltd; NA BT31/22205/135196

Wood Green Palais de Luxe Ltd; NA BT31/22207/135203

Griffithstown Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/689

Smithdown Picture Play House Ltd; NA BT95/502

Nesbitt’s Animated Pictures Ltd; NA BT31/22211/135237

Harry Day’s Amusements Ltd; NA BT95/7

Leigh-on-Sea Coliseum Company Ltd; NA BT31/22214/135276

Mile End Empire Ltd; NA BT31/22215/135278

Purple Picture Palace (Wimbledon) Ltd; NA BT31/14236/135282

*Poppythorn Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT31/22224/135355

Featherstone Palace Ltd; NA BT95/135

Wallaw Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/??

Coliseum (Cleethorpes) Ltd; NA BT31/22225/135347

Worksop Palace Ltd; NA BT31/14237/135367

Castle Street Picturedrome (Oxford) Ltd; NA BT31/22228/135376

Cowley Road Cinema Company (Oxford) Ltd; NA BT31/22228/135377

Alhambra (Burnley) Ltd; NA BT95/135

Atlas Picture House (Bolton) Ltd; NA BT95/7

Bulwell Picture and Variety Company Ltd; NA BT95/135

Hippodrome (St Helens) Ltd; NA BT31/22242/135493

Cadoxton Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/39299+39300/135539

Cheadle Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT31/22247/135540

Amble Picture Hall Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Ladywood Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/479

Aberystwyth Company Ltd; NA BT31/22251/135603

County Playhouses Ltd; NA BT31/22255/135632

Magnet Cinema (Wavertree) Ltd; NA BT31/22257/135649

Burton Latimer Electric Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/??

Cinema Development Syndicate (Nottingham) Ltd; NA BT31/22260/135662

Uplands Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/136

Paragon Theatre (Herne Bay) Ltd; NA BT31/22263/135699

Radford Palace Company Ltd; NA BT95/479

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Kiveton Park Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Monica Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/552

Watford Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/22269/135769

Grand Palaces (Addiscombe) Ltd; NA BT31/22270/135776

*Ceylon Picture Palace Company Ltd; NA BT31/22281/135841

Gallery Kinema Ltd; NA BT31/22282/135846

Dawsonite Ltd; NA BT31/14241/135859

Horsforth Picture House Company Ltd; CH 00135866

Picturedrome (Bradford) Ltd; NA BT95/524

*Whitby Empire Electric Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/22302/136007

Leiston Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/1356

Eureka Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/14243/136069

Miniature Rifle Ranges Ltd; NA BT31/22325/136188

*Theatre Royal (Peterborough) Ltd; NA BT31/22314/136087

Coliseum, Birmingham, Ltd; NA BT31/22316/136105

Mablethorpe Empire Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/22317/136113

Forest of Dean Empires Ltd; NA BT31/22322/136156

*Huddersfield Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/22323/136161

Charlton Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/7

Kinema Waterloo Ltd; NA BT31/22331/136221

Wimbledon Apollo Cinema Ltd; NA BT95/136

Thornbury Picture House Ltd; NA BT31/22334/136251

Cinematograph Novelties Ltd; NA BT31/22335/136260

Gold Coast Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22335/136261

Bank Top Pictures Ltd; NA BT95/136

Owners’ Co-operative Management Association Ltd; NA BT31/22341/136312

Adlington Cinematograph and Trading Company Ltd; NA BT31/22347/136348

Brighton Life Targets Ltd; NA BT31/22347/135354

Cinema (Chesterfield) Ltd; NA BT31/22350/136367

Empire Kinema, West Ham, Ltd; NA BT31/22351/136369

Prince’s Cinemas (Liverpool) Ltd; NA BT31/22353/136381

Silver Cinemas Ltd; NA BT95/136

Bedford Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/22357/136411

Popular Amusements Ltd; NA BT31/22360/136428

Duke of Edinburgh Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/32188/136479

Kinograph (Bristol) Ltd; NA BT31/22374/136541

Whitwick and District Picture House Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

K.H.L. Ltd; NA BT31/22383/136604

Winson Green Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/136

Britannia Theatre (Hoxton) Ltd; NA BT31/22388/136645

Theatre de Luxe (Bradford) Ltd; NA BT31/22392/136672

Outer Circle Picturedromes Ltd; NA BT95/7

Kinema Moving Targets Ltd; NA BT31/22396/136704

Minehead Public Hall Company Ltd; NA BT31/22409/136810

Porth Empire Company Ltd; NA BT31/22410/136814

Ystrad Rhondda Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22407/136794

Capital Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/22411/136820

Baildon Picture and Café Company Ltd; NA BT31/22433/136999

Norfolk Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT95/136

Palace Theatre (Harrogate) Ltd; NA BT31/22442/137059

Ilkeston Cinema Company Ltd; CH 00137070

Leno’s Picturedrome Company Ltd; NA BT95/7

Strand Picture Palace Ltd; NA BT31/22450/137128

Tonbridge Central Picture Hall Ltd; NA BT31/22450/137131

Hippodrome (Blackpool) Ltd; NA BT95/136

Chantrey Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/136

East Coast Cinema Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/22463/137231

Bishopsgate Theatre Ltd; NA BT31/22472/137292

Erdington Empire Picture Play House Ltd; NA BT31/14253/137321

Bolton Palace Ltd; NA BT31/22484/137399

Hippodrome (Moses Gate) Ltd; NA BT31/22484/137405

City Theatre (Birmingham) Ltd; NA BT31/22486/137419

Topsfield Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/22495/137505

St Albans Picturedrome Ltd; NA BT31/22496/137509

*B.O.S. Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22498/137528

Patriotic Recreations Ltd; NA BT31/22504/137595

King’s Road Picture Playhouse (Chelsea) Ltd; NA BT31/22509/137632

Loughborough New Empire Ltd; NA BT95/862

Kingston Coliseum (1914) Ltd; NA BT31/22518/137708

Patriotic Cinema Lectures Association Ltd; NA BT31/14256/137713

H.O.P. Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/22522/137748

Talbotcourt Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/22530/137807

Tommy Atkins Ltd; NA BT31/22532/137825

Pavilion Picture House Company (Leeds) Ltd; NA BT31/22534/137836

Barber & Co.’s Enterprises Ltd; NA BT31/22537/137878

Carr’s Stores Ltd; NA BT31/22542/137907

Machen Cinema Hall Ltd; NA BT31/22557/138016

Tower (Rye Lane) Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT31/22562/138070

Craghead Cinema Company Ltd; NA BT95/747

Rotherham Opera House Company Ltd; NA BT31/22572/138137

Cinema House, Peckham, Ltd; NA BT95/7

Fleetwood Entertainments Company Ltd; NA BT31/22577/138185

Kingsway Picturehouse (Hoylake) Ltd; NA BT95/7

Avonmouth & Portishead Picture Houses Ltd; NA BT31/22578/138204

Harold Gane’s Cinemas Ltd; NA BT31/22581/138237

Firbarro (No. 2) Ltd; NA BT31/22582/138244

Theatre National Ltd; NA BT31/22583/138257

Victoria Picturedrome (Colne) Ltd; NA BT95/1443

Bioscope Shooting Ranges Ltd; NA BT31/22585/138281

Smith Jenkins and Gilman Ltd; NA BT31/22593/138346

Ideal Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/22594/138361

*Palace Theatre (Leyland) Company Ltd; NA BT31/22594/138365

Dudley Kinema Ltd; NA BT31/22603/138446

Society Cinema & Varieties (Fulham) Ltd; NA BT31/14260/138469

Bristol Eureka Cinematograph Company Ltd; NA BT31/22607/138477

Portable Cinemas & Theatres Ltd; NA BT31/22610/138500

South Square Syndicate Ltd; NA BT31/22616/138555

Lewisham Electric Palace Ltd; NA BT95/137

Gravelly Hill Picture House Ltd; NA BT95/137

Commercial Electric Theatres Company Ltd; NA BT31/22630/138677

Coulsdon Cinema Ltd; NA BT31/14261/138722

Wiggins and Welch Ltd; NA BT31/22637/138738

John Gale & Company Ltd; NA BT31/22638/138750

Rowland Entertainments Ltd; NA BT31/14261/138755

Dumbarton Picture House Company Ltd; NRS BT2/1967/28

Queensferry Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8927

Renfrewshire Cinemas Ltd; NRS BT2/8936

Airdrie Pavilion Ltd; NRS BT2/8968

Springburn Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/8978

†Picture House (Girvan) Ltd; NRS BT2/8984

Carlisle Picture House Company Ltd; NRS BT2/8992

Lanark Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/9010

Vimograph Electric Theatres Ltd; NRS BT2/9023

Central Picture House, Portobello, Ltd; NRS BT2/9030

Lorne Cinema House Ltd; NRS BT2/9064

Scottish Kinemas Ltd; CH SC009069

Troon Pavilion Ltd/West of Scotland Pavilions Ltd; NRS BT2/9093

Dunfermline Entertainments Ltd; NRS BT2/9097

Peebles Pavilion Ltd; NRS BT2/9100

Clydebank Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/9105

Lyric Varieties Ltd; NRS BT2/9118

Stanley Rogers Ltd; NRS BT2/9124

Tannochside Theatre Company Ltd; NRS BT2/9156

Bonnyrigg Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/9172

King’s Cinema Ltd; NRS BT2/9199

Perth Cinemas Ltd; NRS BT2/9213

Lyric Picture Theatre Company (Edinburgh) Ltd; NRS BT2/9216

Holytown Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/9220

Stonehouse Picture House Ltd; NRS BT2/9243

Temple Halls Company Ltd; NRS BT2/9262

Southern Fife Cinemas Ltd; NRS BT2/9290