In 1842, Simeon Henry Pearce, an Englishman, arrived in Sydney. He was born in the English village of Randwick and when he built his house south of the city, he called the area he lived in Randwick to remind him of his home. Simeon had a dream of building his beloved Randwick, as a village that was socially composed of upper class residents.

However, for the rich village to exist, domestic servants, cooks, coachmen, gardeners, tradespeople, shopkeepers and labourers had to be a part of Randwick. The prominent citizens of Randwick wished to render these residents as invisible, so they pushed them out of site to the outskirts of the district.

The only area left for these people and their families was to reside in the southern outskirts of Randwick settlements. The site, which is now The Spot, supported a small residential, but non-commercial settlement from about 1850. The north side of St Pauls Street and both sides of Perouse Road were open unbuilt areas until after 1890.

The Walsh family established a dairy farm in the area, existing as the only house on the south side of St Pauls Street in a paddock. The area has become known as Irishtown, which may be due to the fact that the dominant land owner, Matthew Walsh, and other Irish folk lived in the area.

The Spot, as we currently know it, has a history dating from 1890. Commercial development did not commence until the late 1880s when Ms Pardy owned a grocer shop/general store on the south-east corner of the crossroads in 1886. In 1894 a second green grocery has been recorded as being established, but there was no impressive development of a commercial business centre until after 1890, even though it was the last tram stop on the way to Coogee.

Belmore and Perouse Roads before turning east into St Paul's Street. The line terminated in a large loop at the beachfront.

Regular service of the 'Coogee Line' commenced on January 25th, 1883 with the trams travelling between Bridge Street in the City and Coogee Beach. An hour service was initially provided to Coogee, with supplementary journeys forming a 30-minute interval to Randwick. As traffic increased in summer, a 30-minute service was provided to Coogee and on Sundays it was increased to 20 minute intervals during the afternoon. By the end of 1901, a 15-minute service was provided on weekdays for most of the day by 6 trams.

A Railway-Coogee service was provided in the holidays for a period during the 1890's, using the existing Botany and Cleveland Street Lines. This was later reintroduced in January 1907 as an extension of the Railway-Cleveland Street service, becoming a full-time service in March 1909.

Due to industrial problems in the power supply industry, buses temporarily replaced the Sunday services between Circular Quay and Coogee between the 18th of July to the 8th of August, 1948. These buses displayed the route 375 and followed the tram route as closely as possible.

The Railway-Coogee service was also withdrawn however without the replacement of a bus service during the same period. In the winter of 1949, buses replaced the Circular Quay-Coogee trams once again for the same reason on Saturdays and Sundays. In the same fashion, the Railway-Coogee service was also stopped, but without replacement.

On the 22nd of October, 1960 the City-Coogee and Railway-Coogee tram services were both replaced by bus services 373 and 372. The first of the replacing Coogee bus routes began operation following the tramway route, except where the extension of reserved track required departure along nearby streets.

walls and the kiosk accessible from the street level foyer are all still appreciated by patrons.

Alterations have been made to the proscenium area to accommodate a wider screen, but the interior of the building still keeps its 1937 impression.