1949 programme
Forum Cinema in Gosport, Hampshire
1949 programme
Forum Cinema in Gosport, Hampshire
Stoke House, on the corner of
Stoke Road at the junction with
Shaftesbury Road, was demolished in the thirties to make way for the
Forum Cinema.
The plush picture house closed in the 1950s and the building became
Aldridge & Riddle's car showroom, garage and petrol station.
The building and the houses on its west side were demolished in the 1970s
to make way for retail
development.
Waitrose has been on the site
since day one.
Waitrose opened on
17 July 1973
See article in the in-house magazine:
https://waitrosememorystore.org.uk/content/new-contributions/waitrose-gosport-opening-2
The Forum is in the foreground
and
opposite is no. 52 Stoke Road, which at one time was the Stoke School for Boys
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