The Rio Cinema
If you’re planning to pop off to the cinema this weekend, check out the Local Rio Cinema. Its a lovely nostalgic & cozy picture house, that offers home-made cakes, coffee and 30p cups of fizzy drinks.
Monday Evening cheap tickets: £5:50
The Rio started life as an auctioneer’s shop but converted in 1909 into a makeshift picture house. In 1913, cinema architects Adams & Coles of Hackney converted the premises into a proper cinema. Its present Art Deco form internally and externally dates from 1937 when Fredrick F. Bromige gutted the earlier building and created the Classic Cinema which was refurbished as the Rio in 1998. It is a Grade II* listed building and the only mainstream cinema in Hackney.
