Harry Winocour
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Harry Winocour (born 1895/6- 30 December 1950)
Dora Winocour (nee Silver, died in 1970 at the age of 73 in Glasgow), married Harry Winocour in Milton, Glasgow in 1919.[1] Harry was a proprietor of Cinemas and a theatre.
Harry Winocour takes over the Elephant Cinema, Jewish Echo, 26 October 1934.
- In 1931 one H Winocour was lodging at 8 Moray Place. This was Harry Winocour, born Hersz Winokur in Poland, and naturalised in 1947. Harry was a very well known independent cinema proprietor. In 1931 he was a co-director of the new Astoria Picture House Paisley, with brother Claude Winocour, and H Maitles. It had opened in 1909 as the Astoria Roller-Skating Rink but was reconstructed by the Winocours.[2] The same year he also took over the Coatbridge Theatre Royal, and the following year built Calder Cinema in Calder Street [12]. His firm owned several cinemas in the West of Scotland.
- In 1936 he built the Embassy Cinema in Kilmarnock Road, Shawlands, by architect James McKissack. It was opened by special guest Harry Lauder on 3 February, playing Al Jolson’s Cafe de Paree (aka Go Into Your Dance). The cinema was demolished in 1965 to make way for Shawlands Arcade, and the Sir John Stirling Maxwell pub now sits on the site. Harry later moved to 219 Nithsdale Road but died suddenly on holiday in Cannes in 1950.[3] He left £235,000.[4]
A local historian recounts:
- In 1931 one H Winocour was lodging at 8 Moray Place. This was Harry Winocour, born Hersz Winokur in Poland, and naturalised in 1947. Harry was a very well known independent cinema proprietor. In 1931 he was a co-director of the new Astoria Picture House Paisley, with brother C Winocour, and H Maitles. It had opened in 1909 as the Astoria Roller-Skating Rink but was reconstructed by the Winocours [9, 10, 11]. The same year he also took over the Coatbridge Theatre Royal, and the following year built Calder Cinema in Calder Street [12]. His firm owned several cinemas in the West of Scotland.
- In 1936 he built the Embassy Cinema in Kilmarnock Road, Shawlands, by architect James McKissack. It was opened by special guest Harry Lauder on 3 February, playing Al Jolson’s Cafe de Paree (aka Go Into Your Dance). The cinema was demolished in 1965 to make way for Shawlands Arcade, and the Sir John Stirling Maxwell pub now sits on the site [13, 14]. Harry later moved to 219 Nithsdale Road but died suddenly on holiday in Cannes in 1950. He left £235,000.[5]
Timeline
- Myer Winocour donated £5 and 5 Shillings to the 1941 Board of Deputies of British Jews appeal supported by the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council.[6]
- Harry Winocour donated £40 to the 1941 Board of Deputies of British Jews appeal supported by the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council.[7]
Resources
- The Elephant Cinema, Shawlands. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/50802
- https://bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/8-moray-place/
- https://www.geni.com/people/Harry-Winocour/6000000142379912933
See also
Elliot Winocour | Bertram Winocour | Polly Winocour | Yvette Winocour (nee Davidson) | Myer Winocour | Elias Winocour | Annie Winocour(nee Marcus) | Helena Joanne Winocour | Dora Winocour Charitable Trust | David Winocour | Evie Winocour | Jacob Winocour | Leah Winocour | Richard Alan Winocour | Naftali Winocour | Yael Winocour
Notes
- ↑ WINOCOUR HARRY SILVER DORA 1919 644 / 9 / 185 Milton
- ↑ Trade Finance. Kinematograph Weekly [Internet]. 1931 Apr 30; Available from: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003237/19310430/177/0031; Astoria Cinema in Paisley, GB - Cinema Treasures [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/66962; The Only Way is Paisley [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: https://www.facebook.com/TheOnlyWayIsPaisleysPast/photos/a.530151403677313/2400481073310994/
- ↑ Lost Glasgow [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Embassy tipped to welcome a star. Available from: https://www.lostglasgow.scot/posts/embassy-tipped-to-welcome-a-star-225/ ; Embassy Cinema in Glasgow, GB - Cinema Treasures [Internet]. [cited 2022 Nov 28]. Available from: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/17863
- ↑ https://bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/8-moray-place/
- ↑ https://bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/8-moray-place/
- ↑ GLASGOW JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL DONATIONS TO THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES APPEAL, Jewish Chronicle, 12 September 1941.
- ↑ GLASGOW JEWISH REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL DONATIONS TO THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES APPEAL, Jewish Chronicle, 12 September 1941.