Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Fenland
  • /
  • Wisbech
  • Back Forward
A brick building with arched windows and signs reading Electric Theatre sits on a cobblestone street with people on the path.

Electric cinema, Wisbech c1920

Electric Theatre, Norfolk Street, Wisbech

History of Electric Theatre

A 1925 Ordnance Survey map extract showing the layout of streets and buildings in Wisbech, including a Picture Theatre.

Wisbech OS 1925

1910 T H Cooper built first cinema

Renamed Regent then Onyx

1941 bombed and demolished

Car park

Projects

  • Wisbech

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Wisbech

The Angel, 45 Alexandra Road, Wisbech

4 Museum Square, Wisbech

Sibalds Holme, 66 & 67 North Brink, Wisbech

Horace Friend Warehouse No.2, Nene Quay, Wisbech

9 The Crescent, Wisbech

25 High Street, Wisbech

Rings End, Wisbech

6 York Row, Castle Square, Wisbech

12 The Crescent, Wisbech

7, 8, 9 York Row, Castle Square, Wisbech