Stage Number: MBSH.03.03.19
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Bulimba-Balmoral-Hawthorne-Morningside
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 98 Lawson Road, Morningside
Latitude & Longitude: -27.46972222,153.06988889
Time Link: 1924
Map Link: 1925
Image Time Point: 1925
This cinema opened in 1924 with seating for 300 people. Like many similar halls of the time, this building also served as a community hub. During World War II, the local Air Raid Precautions committee held meetings and fundaraising concerts in the hall. It was renamed as the Astra circa 1941, and was destroyed by fire in 1977.
Daily Mail, 13 June 1924; Telegraph, 13 March 1941.
Poster for the movie ‘Peter Pan’ which opened in 1924, the same year as the Morningside Theatre.
MLMS. 40 chain AG2 series 1887–1932—Moreton district. 40 chains to 1 inch. Moreton 40 Chain map AG2 series sheet 2 west. AG2
