Playhouse Action Group
Welcome
to the Picture Playhouse Forum Site, this website
was provided free of charge, so that local people
could have their say in the future of this historic
building. Even in a democracy the voracity and
force of thousands of voices are often needed to
inform the opinion makers and sway those who make
our decisions for us. The case for it to remain as a publicly owned venue for the arts and the local community was lost, (some say it could never have been won, as the ERYC had already made up their minds before consultation). This website will stay online to show the amazing history of this building, the forum will remain active for comments on it's conversion into a department store, and how the Playhouse's new roll can affect the centre of Old Beverley.
History / Events page
- see how this Grand Old Lady of a building
has helped and supported the People, Hospital, Charities
and Town of Beverley for many many years.
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At the "final" Planning Meeting
at The County Hall, Beverley
The ERY Planning committee passed the applications for the Playhouse to become a retail outlet. The Playhouse is now lost to the community as a public space for Music, Theatre, Film, Arts, Exhibitions and meetings etc.
The people of Beverley must support the remaining Live Entertainment & Art venues in the area or lose them too, especially "Beverley War Memorial Hall"
It appears that the maxim "Use it or Lose it" applies.
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See FORUM NEWS - It's going to be a "Brown's Department Store"
There
is now a growing content on the forum, please
contribute, please
be patient, these forums grow organically from
little seeds to great trees.
Please
add any suggestions, comments, support, ideas, to
the relevant forum by replying to an existing topic
or by starting a new topic. For now, if you wish
to start a new forum, please e-mail
me and I will set
a new forum up for you - eventually registered members
will be able to start new forums direct on the page.
The
Playhouse News forum is just that, a News forum,
it does not accept new topics or posts, just confirmed
facts, please
e-mail
any newsworthy accurate
stories
to the forum. We now have a reporter / news editor
in Gavin Quinn, he has volunteered to look after the News
for the Forum.
This
Forum site has
NO connection
with East Riding Council,
Beverley Town Council, The Chamber of Commerce, or any of the
Political parties. Please see the Terms
& Conditions for disclaimers.
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It
was with great sadness that we learnt of the
Death of Peter Robinson (MovieMan).
He died on the 10th September 2003 on his
way to work, at only 60 years of age.
For
many years Peter was the Manager of the Picture
Playhouse, he was also a founder member of
the Film Society in 1972 which ran until 1981.
Assisted the "Greshams" to restart
the Cinema in 1982.
Peter
was also a founder member of PAG and member
number 4 to join this forum site, and has
been a prolific contributer, he seems to have
spent most of his adult life fighting to keep
a working Cinema in Beverley.
Farewell Peter.
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Peter
in 1984 when he wrote his book about The Playhouse Cinema
" The Home of Beautiful Pictures "
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