1911
R S Ransome opens a cinema in his Assembly Rooms, calling it 'Southwold Electric Picture Palace'. Between shows, the building continues to serve as a venue for local events.

1921
Lily Elizabeth Crick purchases the building from R S Ransome. Mrs Crick has this year sold the King's Head to Adnams Brewery. She and her engineer husband, undertake extensive work on the premises to turn it into a serious cinema, effectively rebuilding it with a substantial extension to the East, set at a 90 degree angle to the old Assembly Rooms structure to accommodate some 400 people. It is now simply called 'The Cinema'.

Thanks to the expertise of her husband, George Crick, who is chief engineer and manager of Southwold Gas Light Company, the new cinema boasts some impressive innovations, notably central heating and insulation. Early advertising stated:

"You'll never be cold in the Winter. You'll never be hot in the Summer. We're fully asbestos-lined"

When it is complete.Lily installs James William Marshall Blythe as Manager. (James is her son by her previous marriage to William Blythe.

See also interesting visitor contribution below.

1930
The first 'talkie' is shown.(BCS)

1937
A Mirrophone sound system from Western Electrics is installed (BCS)

The Cinema twice suffers bomb damage during the war but survives and continues functioning throughout.

1942
Lily Elizabeth Crick dies in Southwold Hospital

1959
James W M Blythe, Manager, retires through ill health and the Cinema building is sold to (Forename?) Hope-Bell.

1960
The Cinema is sold to (Forename) Burgess and is renamed 'The Ritz'.

1963?
The Cinema closes for good this year.

1969
Blyth Depository Ltd - Storage company known as 'Blyth Hazell'

1975 approx
William Denny & Son - Builders (See also No 75 High Street)

1983
Premises demolished and building work is begun on the new GP surgery and Orwell Court flats.

1985
The new surgery building, designed by local architect and artist, Clifford Russell, and built by William Denny & Son, is opened this year. Clifford Russell has spent his entire working life in a wheelchair, having been blown up in a tank in the North Africa Campaign. He is consequently acutely aware of the need to incorporate disabled access facilities in his design.

The initial team of GPs includes Dr Gerald Townsley and Dr Andrew Eastaugh (who have moved from No 47 High Street). Dr Mark Butt and his wife, Dr Sarah Butt and Dr Chris Castle who has moved, with his patients and staff, from his own practice at No 83 High Street.

Late 1990s
Drs Mark & Sarah Butt - move to the Andaman Surgery, Oulton Broad.

2001
Dr John Stammers - joins the surgery this year.

2013
Dr Andrew Eastaugh - retires this year.

2014
GP practice moves out in September to the new Sole Bay Health Centre off Nightingale Lane, Reydon