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Archive for November 11th, 2007

Brian Coe

Brian Coe (Stephen Herbert collection)

Sadly, last month saw the death of Brian Coe, one of the most important figures in the preservation and documentation of the UK’s screen heritage in the last century. Brian was Curator of the Kodak Museum 1969-1984, then Curator at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, before joining the Museum of [...]

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Twickenham cinemas

Model of the Palaceum cinema, from www.twickenham-museum.org.uk

Twickenham Museum is a model example of a small museum which has used its website to display more materials and bzackground texts on local history than it can within the small space of its actual building. The site has an excellent section on the cinemas of Twickenham, from 1911 [...]

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