The Gaiety was opened in 1912.
It was called The Electric Theatre.


To get into the theatre, it cost six pence.
On Saturdays, children could get into the cinema for free
if they took a jam jar.

You got to see the movie over and over again.
It wasn't just ONE film it was MORE than one.

When Nancy was watching a movie during the war,
there was an air- raid and she couldn't get home.

People went to the Gaiety to watch the news 
because they wanted to look at the picture, not just listen on the radio.

They had not invented tv.

The Gaiety as it is today.

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