THEN: The Apollo Cinema in Worcester’s Park Street pictured below before its closure in 1931.

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A bijou building with a tiny gallery, the film projector could not be set far enough away from the screen.

So the projection box was built out through a window to hang over the street from where it was accessed via a ladder.

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For many years the Apollo was run by the Evans family.

Having opened in 1911, it was known as the Evans Picture Palace, Sears Picture Palace and then finally the Apollo.

NOW: The same location near the city centre in 2024 below with the former cinema now apartments known as Chapel Court.

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The Apollo was never converted for sound so closed in 1931 when other cinemas began to show ‘talkies’.

The reason for the Chapel name?

It began life as the Zion Chapel and was opened by the United Methodist Association on the Sunday before Christmas Day in 1838.

It was built to cater for a new suburb which had grown up just outside Sidbury Gate and seated only 167.

Although the chapel had an imposing frontage which was added in 1845, it remained on the small side and had to close in 1910 when the United Methodists withheld its grant.

The building was converted into accommodation in 1989.