Penistone Paramount Cinema

The building was commissioned as an assembly hall for the town and formed part of a larger complex including council offices and a library. It was designed by Henry R. Collins in the Art Deco style, built in brick and stone and was opened by the mayor of Huddersfield, Joseph Blamires, on 31 October 1914. The design involved a rusticated main frontage facing onto Shrewsbury Road. It featured a doorcase with an architrave and a keystone. There was a row of seven windows on the first floor and an open pediment above. It became the Town Hall Picture House showing silent films on 20 November 1915. It proved successful, and with a balcony added in the 1920s, could seat 900 people. A stage and bar…