Useful Links & Resources

Acknowledgement:

Both the Cinema Theatre Association and the North West Film Archive have been immensely helpful in my research about the Ambassador and its architect John Knight, providing both documents and images from their collections.

Click on the lobby frames to go to that particular organisation's website

  The Cinema Theatre Association, founded in 1967 by journalist Eric George, aimed to spotlight and preserve the vanishing 'cinema theatre' movie palaces from the Twenties and Thirties in our towns and cities. They always welcome new donations of materials and inquiries relating to British Cinemas

   Since 1977, North West Film Archive has been gathering, preserving, and sharing thousands of moving images made in or about Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside, and Cumbria.

   Since 2000, Cinema Treasures have united movie theaters and patrons to build the world’s most comprehensive guide to movie theaters old and new.

    The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

   The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. While access within the British Library is free, online access is via a subscription system based on daily or per item charges, monthly or yearly fees. It is a bit buggy but can be very useful.

    Established by the Manchester Group of the Victorian Society, the Dictionary of Greater Manchester Architects (DGMA) is a database covering architects born, trained, lived, or worked in Greater Manchester from 1800 to 1940, offering biographical information and commission details.

British Pathé is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world. Spanning the years from 1896-1978, its collections include footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science, and culture. It is an invaluable resource for broadcasters, documentary producers, museum curators, and researchers worldwide.