Alhambra Cinema

Keswick's cinema opened on 22 January 1913 — the first night's film failed and Quo Vadis ran a day late, a start the house has spent a century living down — and it has passed through long stewardships ever since: the Simpson family sold to the Graves family in 1957, who kept it nearly sixty years, and Jonathan Moore and Graham King, a marketer and a barrister, have co-owned it since 2021. They spent £120,000 on it in 2026 alone — laser projector, new screen and sound, the roof made honest — and the builders uncovered the original 112-year-old screen in the walls while they worked, which is the kind of thing that happens in buildings that never stopped doing their job.