Zetland Road picture house Bristol

historybuff, on October 12, 2008, said:

Ralph Pringle's pride & joy, his Zetland Road picture house - Designed for him by W.H. Watkins and pictured at the time of its opening in 1910 - It later became the Scala and finally the annexe to a furniture store.

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karlos32, on November 11, 2008, said:

I don't think this is the right location for the cinema, the cinema I visited as a child was opposite Zetland rd next to the kebab house.(Obviously the kebab hse wasn't there then it was the entrance to the cinema) The location you have is now a carpet shop where as the cinema I mention became a furniture shop and I think 'Homeplan' was the name. I can't remember the last film I saw but it shut in the 70's, I think

consider, on April 14, 2009, said:

The last film I saw was 'Shane' in 1950 at the Scala Cinema. I can't remember exactly where it was located.

Andrew Pearson, on October 17, said:

I don't recognise this facade but it may have changed ... the Scala was in Zetland Road, Bristol 9 and was run for some years by my grandparents. Fred Seymour - about whom I would welcome any input, photoes etc. I spent many holidays there and in the flat they lived in behind. Many years later as a UWE student I would go there for 'student nights' - it had gone downhill by then. I wasn't allowed to see many films by ny grandparents but I remember seeing' The Magnificent Seven' every night for a week.