Former Eastbourne cinema boarded up to prevent anti-social behaviour

Sussex Police said officers, working with Eastbourne council and the owners of the Curzon Cinema, boarded up the building in Langney Road on April 9 in an effort to prevent people from engaging in anti-social behaviour outside the premises.

PC Scott Franklin-Lester, beat officer for Eastbourne town centre, said, “The area outside the Curzon Cinema has been a bit of a town centre hot-spot for anti-social behaviour in the past and following the cinema’s closure, we have worked with the council and the building’s owners to get the area boarded up to prevent this from happening again in future, particularly ahead of the summer.”

The cinema closed this year after nearly 100 years in business, and Curzon house manager Salam Niwa said the new Cineworld in The Beacon ‘killed us’.

The cinema first opened its doors as the Picturedome on December 21, 1920. It was forced to close during the Second World War when a bomb hit Marks and Spencer opposite on December 18, 1942.

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