A MAN'S quest to discover the identity of an old business in Kidderminster has reached a fruitful conclusion, thanks to Shuttle/Times and News readers.
Following Roger Mathews's appeal for information relating to an old programme he found, his suspicion that The Tivoli was a former cinema in the town has been confirmed.
Eighty-eight-year-old Raymond Radcliffe, of Stourbridge Road, phoned within minutes of picking up his paper to say The Tivoli was an old picture house located near Sid Simmonds's butcher's shop in Mill Street until the end of the 1930s.
Seventy-six-year-old Kath Angling said her mother, Sarah Hart had been there with her father, Wilfred, to watch the first talking film, The Jazz Singer.
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