Majestic Cinema

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 11:49 am

Si wrote: I assume it's no accident that the Cenotaph's original position was in front of the site of the recruiting office? Yes indeed Si - that IS a sobering thought isn't it ??

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 2:04 pm

I thought I would add this photo that I took on January 2 2013. The buildings to the right (on Quebec Street and the old Post Office in City Square) still well match those in the photo taken on October 5 1919, but it is hard to readily match the area on the left.

BJF · Post by **BJF** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 4:47 pm

Surely that recruitment office is the ground floor of the Majestic?

anthonydna · Post by **anthonydna** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 5:17 pm

"Surely that recruitment office is the ground floor of the Majestic?" I thought that until I saw the picture of it demolished.

carith · Post by **carith** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 5:48 pm

BJF wrote: Surely that recruitment office is the ground floor of the Majestic? Could the recruitment building have been demolished in 1919 as an attempt to errase the memory of the war.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 16 Jan, 2013 6:43 pm

It is very different if you inspect the images side by side/ together. There is a short window in which it must have been demolished if the war ended in 1918 and the majestic completed 1921.

Si · Post by Si » Fri 18 Jan, 2013 3:57 pm

carith wrote: BJF wrote: Surely that recruitment office is the ground floor of the Majestic? Could the recruitment building have been demolished in 1919 as an attempt to errase the memory of the war. I doubt it - "lest we forget" and all that. Probably just surplus to requirements. Besides, the Cenotaph was put up directly in front of it's site (see photo above.)

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Mon 21 Jan, 2013 3:45 pm

BLAKEY wrote: The October 1919 picture is most interesting, and a little puzzling too. The charabancs appear to actually be proper enclosed buses with solid roofs and permanent body pillars, but this is very early for such vehicles - I thought the livery seemed very like Samuel Ledgard's colours of the time, but his first machines of that type entered service in December 1919 prior to which he had true charabancs - another of those mysteries lost in time. Blakey - I'm not sure this sort of thing happened back in 1919 but a possible suggestion.A quick check shows that the 9th Oct 1919 was a Sunday, could it have been possible that the "buses" in that photo were indeed Ledgards and that in a show of pride they were having a pre-service fleet launch and taking the oppertunity to show off their new fleet of vehicles, complete with roofs, to the intending punters of the day.Just a thought

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Mon 21 Jan, 2013 4:02 pm

The caption on the pic is 5th October which was a Sunday

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Mon 21 Jan, 2013 11:01 pm

BLAKEY wrote: The building in the photo is of such a similar style to the Majestic that, if we didn't know differently, it could have been altered and extended to form the new cinema. is this a possibility? were they definitely on the exact same site? fascinating prospect if true