This old cinema sits in the heart of a little rural town which itself is now mostly vacant. Most of its population having moved away or retired elsewhere.

The cinema itself went bust in the 1990’s, having been a popular place for rubber estate workers to get their only dose of weekend movie entertainment in the area. Most of the cinema was stripped out after its doors finally closed. All the seats were gone in the main hall and the ticket booth and power rooms were all left bare.

Just behind the ticket desk there was a small door, it looked to lead on to a small gloomy side room. I stumbled into the small room and as my eyes adjusted to the gloom I discovered a rickety set of steep wooden steps the led upwards. This surely was the access to the projector room!

As I climbed up the steps, it creaked and swayed under my weight. With each step up, more and more of the room above revealed itself to me. Finally as I got up to the top my jaw dropped, I couldn’t believe it, the projectors were all still here!

Inside the dingy little room nearly everything had been left in place. Both projectors were still bolted to the floor, old cupboards and boxes containing spare parts lined the walls. On the floor and on a small table were spooled reels of old movies.

I I was so consumed by what I had found, I think I spent nearly an hour in just this little room alone. What a find!