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Castlegate, York.
Queen Victoria Pillar Box.
By Andrew Handyside & Co, Ironfounders of Derby & London.
St George's Hall Cinema (former), Castlegate, York, 1921.
Grade l listed.
St George's Hall Cinema. The facade of the cinema which was opened in 1921 and closed in 1965. It is a rare example of cinema architecture of the 1920s.
In 1919 a scheme was proposed to convert Fairfax House and this adjoining house into a cinema and dance hall. St George's Hall, as it became known, was part of a thriving movement of popular entertainment in York in the 1920s and, by 1925, they were proudly advertising the cinema as 'the largest, most comfortable and most up-to-date in York'. Four decades on and the cinema company was in financial trouble, eventually selling the building to the City Council. The dance hall on the first floor, however, was still in operation until 1980. In 1980 the then Chairman of the York Civic Trust wrote to the City Council asking if the Trust might take on the restoration of the building. A successful track-record of restoring other historic buildings proved decisive, although the process of acquisition was not without its problems.
At this location once stood a supermarket where Loy worked (Alondra and Castlegate in Compton). Loy and Bruce lived behind the market in a small duplex.
Castlegate Square in Aberdeen, now regarded as the centre of the City, with the Market Cross here from 1686, and Statue of the 5th Duke of Gordon from 1844.
Aberdeen Castle was here from the 1100s to early 1300s when it was destroyed during the War with England.
This was the area for Markets and Public Hangings that attracted huge crowds.
The last Woman Hanged in Aberdeen was Catherine Davidson in front of tens of thousands of people in 1830, after being found guilty of Poisoning her Husband.
The last man to be Hanged in Public in Aberdeen was John Booth in 1857 for stabbing his mother in law dead.
1963 - Henry John Burnett was the last man Hanged in Scotland, at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen for shooting dead his wifes lover.