Silver Screen Building to be restored
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British cinema was born in a hall on Regent Street in central London in 1896 - when the Lumiere brothers put on the first public show of moving pictures in the UK.
The space - now part of the University of Westminster - could be about to be restored to its original glory, thanks to a million pound donation from a Saudi billionaire.
Makes a change from them knocking down our oldest houses to make way for cardboard boxes.
The space - now part of the University of Westminster - could be about to be restored to its original glory, thanks to a million pound donation from a Saudi billionaire.
Makes a change from them knocking down our oldest houses to make way for cardboard boxes.
