Workmen have embarked on the remarkable restoration of a Grade II listed cinema 80 years after it almost destroyed during the blitz of WW2.<br /><br />The National Picture Theatre in Hull, East Yorks., was badly damaged during a Luftwaffe air raid on March 18, 1941.<br /><br />Hull was one of the worst-affected cities in the country during the blitz and more than 150 people were inside the cinema at the time of the bombing on the port city.<br /><br />Amazingly, nobody was killed or seriously injured. <br /><br />The building, which was constructed in 1914, has been left unrepaired and derelict for 83 years and was given Grade II listed status in 2007.
