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Staff of the Palace Cinema.
The boy in the centre is Horace Wills.
July 1912
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Frank E Wills kept an outdoor beer house at number 25 Alfred Street.
The brewery was Phipps of Northampton. Frank's shop was facing the Palace Cinema, and they watched the cinema taking shape, until it opened in 1910. Frank's son Horace became a "limelight boy" at the cinema and is pictured left, with staff outside the cinema in 1912. Horace established himself as a wireless engineer in 1920 and traded at 38 High Street.
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Constructing the Palace stage area in 1910. The wall of the beer house is in the background and the man in a suit,
taking an interest in the proceedings, is Frank Wills.
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