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Albion Park Agricultural Pavilion / Crown Pictures

Venue Summary
Name Albion Park Agricultural Pavilion / Crown Pictures
Address Tongarra Road, Albion Park, New South Wales 2527
Operation Dates 1000-01-01 - 1919-12-31
Capacity
Suburban/Country Country
Purpose Hall
Screens 1
Roles
Venue Comments

This venue is known to have been used by various travelling picture show companies across the first decades of the 20th Century.

Between 1915 and 1919 it became the home of Albion Park Crown Pictures owned by local businessmen, the Condon Brothers. (Parkinson 1995, p. 117).

References:
Parkinson, R 1995, Gauffered Velour: a history of motion picture exhibition and picture theatres in the Illawarra district of New South Wales, 1897-1994, Australian Theatre Historical Society, Campbelltown, NSW.

Venue Events
Event Date Name of Venue Address Latitude /
Longitude
Capacity Suburban Purpose Screens
1000-01-01 Albion Park Agricultural Pavilion Tongarra Road
Albion Park
New South Wales 2527
-34.565311
150.783865
Country Hall 1
1915-01-01 Crown Pictures