Cheam, Station Way 1938
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The popular Century Cinema was built in 1937 on the corner of Kingsway Road and Station Way. As an independent operation it did not have access to the jealously guarded right to exhibit films for the first time, and flourished on a regimen of re-runs and foreign films. 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', for example, starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon and Raymond Massey, had initially been released to the major cinema chains in 1935. Nevertheless, the Century survived until 1960, when it finally closed for business. But the main auditorium was not pulled down for another thirty years, when the whole site was redeveloped.
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