Penistone Paramount Cinema
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The Penistone Paramount Cinema is a unique community cinema and theatre in the heart of the South Yorkshire Pennines. Besides the big film releases, there are live shows and weekly organ concerts.
The cinema is also home to one of the few working theatre organs in the country. The Paramount Compton Organ has been recently rebuilt, and was the reason why the cinema was renamed from the Metro Cinema.
The Compton Organ was built in 1937 by the John Compton Organ Company in London, especially for the Paramount Theatre in Birmingham.
The organ was removed from there in 1988 when the cinema was refurbished and made into a multiplex. It was then moved to the Regal in Oswestry, where it stayed until the cinema closed in 1994.
In 2000 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council agreed to purchase the organ, and all of the the 1000 pipes were cleaned out as part of the organ restoration. The cinema was then renamed as the Paramount in honour of the new resident.
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