Ultimate Picture Palace
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The Ultimate Picture Palace is an independent cinema in Oxford, England. It is Oxford's only surviving independent cinema, showing a mixture of independent, mainstream, foreign language, and classic f
Front of the Ultimate Picture Palace at night
The auditorium before the 2014 refurbishment
Castle Street, Oxford
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Castle Street is a historic street in Oxford, England. It is named after Oxford Castle which is close by to the west and is located in the St Ebbe's area of southwest central Oxford.
Ultimate Picture Palace
…The cinema has been a Grade II listed building since 1994. Frank Stuart opened Oxford's first cinema, the Electric Theatre, in Castle Street, in 1910. He was the licensee of the Elm Tree pub on the corner of Cowley Road and Jeune Street. Also in 1910 work started to build Stuart's second…
19th-century view of Castle Street in Oxford
View up Castle Street past Westgate Shopping Centre
The Castle Tavern on Castle Street