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The Rembrandt Cinema Ewell

3rd October 1938 - 23rd April 1998

The Rembrandt Cinema was a medium sized suburban cinema situated in a unique suburban location, near Ewell in Surrey. These pages aim to give a flavour of the building and its staff during its sixty years of operation and an opportunity to revisit the cinema via a virtual tour using photographs, documents, memorabilia and maybe sometime some video clips, collected over the last 20 years.

You will notice a bias towards the 1980's which is unavoidable as this was the period that I worked at the cinema; former patrons and staff of the cinema may wish to add their own memories to this site, or correct any errors that may have slipped in. You can do this by visiting the

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  In the snow 1987. Credit: D.Phillips

History of the Rembrandt Cinema

Virtual Tour

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The final Farewell. 23rd April 1998


At the party after the final showing I couldn't resist the temptation to grab the ladder and a handful of canopy letters to display the final message.

 

 

The weekend after closure. Within a few days the building was enclosed by fencing.

Inside the seats were ripped out and the projection equipment removed.

I didn't have the heart to take any more pictures after this one so this is the last picture I took of the Rembrandt.

 

A few years later...

Rembrandt Court with the new development beyond it on the site of the houses that were next to the cinema