Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton

[4] The Duke of York's cinema was built at the cost of £3000 by actress-manager Violet Melnotte-Wyatt.

The building remains largely unaltered, it even retains one of its boxes in the balcony area.

The name came from the West End theatre which its first proprietor Mrs Melnotte-Wyatt was also associated with.

Being slightly outside the town centre, the Duke's catered for its local audience and this has been its saving grace.

It originally seated over 800, but modifications have been made to the inside of the building to create the café/bar upstairs, a concession space downstairs, and to allow for greater comfort.

In 1991, a 20-foot (6.1 m) pair of can-can dancer's legs were acquired from the recently closed Not The Moulin Rouge Theatre in Oxford, and were installed onto the outside front balcony.