I love this place! It's apparently the oldest working cinema in the UK (it opened in November 1909) and has been through many different guises and names before being re-opened as The Electric in 2004. The cinema is tucked away on Station Street just behind New St Station and is easily reached ... Read review
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Advantages: Shows great films, not your usual chain cinema Disadvantages: Very small, some parts could do with a re-vamp
...before being re-opened as The Electric in 2004. The cinema is tucked away on Station Street just behind New St Station and is easily reached on foot from the city centre.
It is a small art deco style building and the main auditorium is small but perfectly formed (and very red!). The thing that makes it special for me is the fact that at the back of the room, there are a number of black leather sofas which can be hired at £10 per person. ... ...the loos leave a bit to be desired as they appear to have been there since the place was built, but that is only a minor point.
On the whole, a trip to the Electric is an interesting experience and they show great films. ... more
I love this place! It's apparently the oldest working cinema in the UK (it opened in November 1909) and has been through many different guises and names before being re-opened as The Electric in 2004. The cinema is tucked away on Station Street just behind New St Station and is easily reached on foot from the city centre.
It is a small art deco style building and the main auditorium is small but perfectly formed (and very red!). The thing that makes it special for me is the fact that at the back of the room, there are a number of black leather sofas which can be hired at £10 per person. If you hire a sofa you also get the added advantage of being able to order drinks and food by text message and it will be brought directly to you. The food and drink is also great here - rather than the horrible over priced sweets and fizzy drinks you usually get at the cinema, they sell olives, tortilla chips and yummy chocolate cake and other snacks. They have a full bar and you can also have a cup of tea or coffee!
The cinema shows a mixture of interesting mainstream and more off-beat films. They don't bore you with 20 minutes of adverts either, films usual start around 10 minutes after the time published. I really enjoy the fact that they play eighties films once a month on a Sunday, it's a great way to catch up on films I've only ever seen on the tv. They sometimes have gigs there too, but I'm afraid I can't comment as I've never been to one.
Downsides are that the loos leave a bit to be desired as they appear to have been there since the place was built, but that is only a minor point.
On the whole, a trip to the Electric is an interesting experience and they show great films.
Advantages: Good fun, reasonable prices Disadvantages: Only runs along a short route
Running for a length of around two kilometres along Brighton's seafront Volk's Electric Railway is the oldest operating electric railway system in the world. Established in 1883 it was not the first electric rail system of its kind, that award goes to a similar system at Lichterfelde, Berlin that predates this one by a couple of years. However that one no longer operates so Brighton's version qualifies as the oldest one still in use.
Brighton's electric railway is a narrow gauge railway that was the brainchild of Magnus Volk. It operates between the Aquarium, adjacent to the pier to the marina and the length of the queues at the stations at both end during the recent Easter Bank Holiday prove that it is still a popular attraction.
There are only three stations along its route; the Aquarium at the eastern end of the line close to ...
Advantages: Country views preserved trams Disadvantages: hard seats and hard ride
Manx electrical Railway
This railway appears to have started construction in 1890.At the Derby Castle end of the Promenade is Burnt Mill Hill, a rather steep climb.
In fact the land on this eastern side proved too much for Steam.With the possibilities of Electric traction though, more ambitious routes could be considered.
There was at one time a plan to merge all the competing transport companies, that is why you will note that the rails for this railway start to extend to the Promenade as do the rails of the Horse tramway start to extend the other way. Neither quite meets.
The station at Derby Castle is not elaborate like the Steam Railway at the other end of town. What you have is a small rustic ticket office.
This railway from its outset was dependant on tourist trade.
The main depot for the railway is situated ...
Advantages: None that I can think of Disadvantages: Embarressing, awful food, too crowded, dagerous driving
firepit for the demonstration even if the rest of the food that we had been offered had been patently cooked in electric ovens.
MAORI ENTERTAINMENT:
We heard some singing had started in the dining hall. Some of it was Maori but a lot was not. The singers had lovely and very powerful voices but unfortunately they wanted audience participation and we had to clap along and sway whilst they were performing. The ?chiefs? were then presented with a little token and had a Maori blessing and they we had to stand and sway and hold hands to a Maori song Pokare kare ana.
We were now pretty fed up and quite pleased to be getting back into our bus ready for the return to our hotel.
THE RETURN BUS TRIP TO THE HOTEL
If we thought the crowds in the village, the food and then the forced audience participation was bad then there was worse to follow.
As we ...
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