Here is the watercolour sketch from Fredericks Tea Room in
Westgate-on-Sea, part of the cinema building, and what a building, although not
mentioned in Pevsner (sic Newman) even in a derisory way. It’s a Swiss-Gothic
style 1910 extravaganza originally built as a town hall. Westgate-on-Sea just
wasn’t big enough for a town hall of these proportions, and in 1912, it was
transformed into the Town Hall Cinema. In 1932, it was renamed the Carlton
Cinema.
I was hoping to find somewhere to sketch the whole building
from, however even if you could find somewhere and sketch around the traffic
and parked cars, today most of the town hall’s roadworks equipment was parked
outside the building obscuring it even more.
Really Fredericks Tea Room is the only place to sit down and
have lunch in that part of Westgate-on-Sea, and of course that is in the
building I wanted to sketch.
On to Lovelys in Northdown Road Cliftonville, where they
have expanded their artist’s materials department.
Here are the rest of the photos on my phone
Is the Cinema still functioning Michael in St Mildred’s road? Memories of Espresso coffee after a cuddle in the back row then a walk along the esplanade before having to catch the train back to Ramsgate. The ornate structure above the shops hasn’t changed; I can imagine your disappointment finding the frontage being used as a corporation car park, another day perhaps?
ReplyDeleteAlan all still there and functioning as expected, a proper cinema…
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