Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere
Posted in Art Deco, Cinemas, Trips at 12:00 on 11 January 2026
Our sojourn to Barrow (see earlier posts) was really to take a look at stuff in the Lake District, whose main town is Bowness-on-Windermere.
Among others of Bowness’s sights I found the Royalty Cinema, which has Art Deco touches in the white painting and horizontal bands but also feels a bit Edwardian. It was opened in 1927 and so is on the cusp.
Tags: Art Deco, Barrow-in-Furness, Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District
jackdeighton
13 January 2026 at 12:00
Just up Lake Road from the Royalty Cinema in Bowness-on-Windermere lies Windermere’s War Memorial, a stone wall with plinth in the centre surmounted by a tapered rectangular column. A laurel wreath and sword of sacrifice are on the front face of the column. The WW1 inscription on the wall reads “In undying memory of the […]