Having stood for almost 100 years, a former cinema faces another uncertain chapter in its future after a ferocious fire ripped through the building. The old picturehouse, which opened as The Regal Cinema in 1933, later became the ABC and then the city’s Odeon branch until it closed in 2020, could have suffered irreparable damage in an inferno at the weekend. The Art Deco-style structure stood firm during Canterbury’s darkest night, surviving damage during the infamous Baedeker Raid in 1942 when Nazi bombs dropped on the city. It proudly reopened in the wake of the blitz, which destroyed medieval streets...
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