Though closed as a cinema in 1962, the building survives as a bingo hall, and is Grade II listed.

The cinema was constructed between 1935 and 1936 to a symmetrical, modernist, art deco design by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering,[1][2] the latter having joined the former's practice, as an assistant, in 1933.

[2] It was built to serve Kingstanding's new, 4,000-home working-class housing estate[4] and had 968 seats in the stalls and 324 in the circle.

[1][5] Clavering, inspired by the Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, originally intended that these fins would be topped by a searchlight.

[6][7] The cinema closed on 1 December 1962, the final film being To Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy.