Wetherspoons Whitstable

This Wetherspoon Pub is in Oxford Street Whitstable.  The building was built in 1912, over 16-18 Oxford Street as a cinema.  It was called the Oxford Picture House.  It was rebuilt in 1936 in art deco style until it closed it's door in 1962.  It then became a bingo hall until 2010.  Wetherspoons decided to take it over, and the search began for a new name.  Despite some objections of it not being named the New Oxford, Wetherspoon's decided to name it The Peter Cushing, they kept the 1930's feel to it and it's deco reflects back to the golden age of cinema.   

Peter Cushing is very much a house hold name, as an actor and he and his wife moved to Whitstable in 1959, only 50 years you might say, and he wasn't born there.  I think it is very apt, and you can always trust Wetherspoons to be respectful of a building and it's history. more here

The Peter Cushing Wetherspoons Whitstable

The Oxford Picture Hall

The Oxford Picture Hall

                                                                           

                                                                             

The interior of the Oxford Picture House 1912

An interior shot.

                                                                                                                                                                           

The old Projector and reels from the Picture Hall