Lyceum Theatre was Huron's longest continuous running movie house
Article content The first moving pictures in Wingham were shown in the opera house in the late 1890s. Flickering images of Queen Victoriaâs Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and the Spanish American War in 1899 brought the magic of movies to enthralled area audiences. As the new mediumâs popularity grew, Wingham eagerly anticipated its own movie house. Sometime in 1908, William Britton, a local undertaker, opened the Wonderland picture house just north of the town hall on Josephine Street in the former Massey-Harris dealership building. It was known as the Wonderland until George Corbett boug...
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