The Lytton Road Assembly Rooms were built by E. Fergusson Taylor in New Barnet around 1870.
Film pioneer Birt Acres gave a display of moving pictures to the Lyonsdown Photographic Society there on 10 January 1896.
The building became a cinema in 1925Regal Cinema. Ken Roe, Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 28 May 2017. and was replaced with a purpose built building in 1926 known as The Hippodrome, the New Barnet Kinema, the New Barnet Picture Theatre, and The Regal from 1933.Taylor, Pamela, & Joanna Corden. (1994) Barnet, Edgware, Hadley and Totteridge: A pictorial history. Chichester: Phillimore. Image caption 138. "Cinemas Update", John Heathfield, Friern Barnet Newsletter, No. 34 (September 2008), pp. 5-7. It later became a Mecca bingo hall, a snooker club, and finally a Quazer laser war games centre. It was demolished in 1999 and the flats known as Clivedon Court were built on the site.
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