The Caley

Today’s blip is the Caley cinema (which you will now note is a Wetherspoons pub). 

This Grade B listed building was originally opened as the cinema on the 1st of January 1923 (seating 900 patrons) with a silent film called  ‘The Game of Life’’ (a little known and even less remembered British silent historical film). 

In 1928, the building was enlarged (seating 1,900 patrons) for the new talkies, which were becoming all the rage.

The last picture shown at the Caley was in 1984. The landmark cinema then became a nightclub called the Caley Palais, renamed Century 2000 and then Revolution. The building then lay empty and decaying for several years until it was reopened in 2008 as the Picture House Wetherspoons pub.

The refurbished building is very sympathetic to the cinema’s Art Deco roots and is often noted as one of the favourite Weatherspoons pubs in the UK.

Anyway, I was in this area, as I had an appointment to see the NHS audiologist (after being in the waiting list for nearly a year). The lovely Wendy did loads of tests and decided I had dodgy hearing and tinnitus in my left year, so I’m getting a flashy hearing aid and sent for an MRI scan, so they can check a few bits and pieces to make sure all is well.

Got the bus home and now about to take Rory from next door a walk.

I hope you have had a good Thursday.