Sawston Cinema Archive Project

We have been working on our film about the history of the cinema in Sawston for several months with Peter Harmer, and this week we will get to see what it looks like, as we’re going to show an early cut at our regular film club meeting on Thursday. Apart from being really exciting, [...]

We’ve got our new website and you’re looking at it…
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An important part of the archive project is finding out what people who used the cinema remember about it, so we have been talking to people who live in Sawston.
During our interview with Pearl we learnt that the cinema was always full and that it was very popular because there wasn’t much else to do [...]

At our last meeting we talked about what had happened at the Project Launch and filled in a form about it.

I don’t know anything. (BN)
I didn’t know there was one. (MS)
I can’t answer this question. (JG)
I know who made it but I forgot the name. (RS)
It was opened by Mrs Spicer. (JY)
I know it was opened by Henry Spicer. (LH)
Nothing apart from the fact that it was in this building. (SW)
Nothing (TB)