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'Acton's Local Cinemas - A Walking Tour', organised and conducted by Nigel Smith, explores the town's cinematic past and is scheduled for the end of January.

Before the opening in 2021 of the ActOne in the area, the last cinema here closed in the 1990s. This stands in sharp contrast with the 1940s, the absolute heyday of movie-going in the UK. Indeed, the town had five such film palaces then all in close proximity to one another.

A few of the buildings, long gone, were constructed in the 1920s on an impressive scale. Whilst smaller venues, that had appeared prior to the talkies, by the Second World War were considered ‘flea-pits’. Acton could also lay claim to a couple of 1930s ‘super-cinema’, but only one, presently repurposed, still remains.

A visit will be paid to ActOne, to discover how previous movie-going habits have persisted into the modern era. The walk itself has a duration of approximately one hour and 30 minutes to complete. It begins on King Street, ultimately finishing on High Street.

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'Acton's Local Cinemas - A Walking Tour' will take place between 11.30 am and 13.00 pm on Sunday 26th January starting at St Mary's Church, Acton.