Travel back in time to the golden era of cinema in Bedford. Find out more about the town's cinema pioneers, the picture palaces which they built in the first part of the 20th century and the sad demise of those cinemas.

Trailblazers

• Cinema in Bedford and the Blake and Chetham Families
• Annie Blake
• Daisy Chetham
• Blake and Chetham Family Trees

Cinema locations and details

Cinemas and Films

• The Picturedrome
• The Palace
• The Empire/Granada 3
• The Plaza/Century
• The Granada and Granada 2
• Shows at the Granada: the beat boom era
   
• Architecture and Design
• What the Council Thought: the County Council and Bedford's picture palaces 1909-1970
   
• Bedford Film Society History
• Cinema Memories
• Number Crunching: cinema statistics

Further Information

• About the project
• Sources