Gaiety Seats at Archway 1956 - 1981

The Gaiety Theatre opened in The Strand, London in 1964 and closed for refurbishment in 1902. It reopened with new seats in 1903. The Gaiety finally closed in 1939 after presenting the farce "Running Riot".

Its contents were sold to a cinema in North London which was closed in 1956.
The seats were auctioned and the then Archway Theatre Treasurer, George Coutts and Vice Chairman Alex McKenzie, borrowed a lorry and attended the auction. They bought some eighty seats for £75. The condition of the sale was that purchasers must remove the seats (which were screwed to the cinema floor) and take them away that day.

George and Alex and the seats, arrived back in the Archway Theatre well after midnight.
The "Gaiety" seats were used in the Archway Theatre from 1956 - 1981