| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) 08:49 - Jun 12 with 7494 views | RangersDave |
Hi chaps and chapesses,
for the last year, in my spare time, i have been visiting old cinema buildings around the country, recoding how they look now both externally, and where possible, internally (some still have lots of original features).
It's a labor of love, and so far i have catalogued 411 cinemas, with around another 1300 still to do.
I have recorder 4 that are now demolished, i have 'found' 3 that were thought demolished and even found a bomb shelter untouched since WW2 under one.
If you have any penchant for 1900-1940 art deco cinemas (or flea pits as i used to know them) feel free to join my facebook page 'old cinema buildings' to discuss, or even just visit my cinema photographs at.... https://northernphotography.zenfolio.com/f504340746
I am not doing any of this for any renumeration or gain, just for the knowledge that i am saving as many as possible digitally for future generations. |  |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 14:54 - Jun 12 with 1627 views | Boston |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 13:43 - Jun 12 by hantssi |
Boston, didn’t one of them become a C & A, the one nearer the Triangle? |
The C&A replaced the Odeon, which had been called the Majestic, it was demo’d in the mid sixties to make way for the retail establishment. The Odeon chain then bought the Guamont, which was only a couple of hundred yards further up the High St on the corner of Cecil Ave, changed its name to the Odeon.
My usual destination for the flicks was this last venue , a/ it was the cheapest, b/ I liked the hot dogs, c/ the back door lock was dodgy and we could sometimes get in for free. [Post edited 12 Jun 2020 14:55]
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:01 - Jun 12 with 1618 views | Boston |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 14:30 - Jun 12 by BucksRanger |
You're younger than me then.
The Odeon was the Gaumont when I lived there and the ABC was the Regal. The Regal was the better of the two (on the corner of Ealing Road and Wembley High St) if I remember correctly whilst the Gaumont was at the far end of the High St up towards Wembley Stadium area. |
Can’t recall the name Regal. Whenever we were in that part of Ealing Rd we’d be over chatting with Henry Cooper on the other side of the street, top bloke, always joked with the kids, sometimes fire a bit of fruit at us. | |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:08 - Jun 12 with 1615 views | kensalriser |
Great work Dave. Enough material for a book?
I love Art Deco. |  |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:19 - Jun 12 with 1610 views | RangersDave |
Hi mate,
I'd love to do a book (for charity of course), but i need to catalogue a load more first, so i can maybe do 4-8 volumes as each cinema existing / catalogued deserves to be noted.
If you guys get a chance check out..... 'cinema in the woods' at Woodhall Spa.
its also on my zenfolio.
it was the ww2 base cinema and is largely untouched since.
I got out of my car and started waling to it (100ft) and walked into a round flak gun emplacement (minus the gun). very cool place | |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:44 - Jun 12 with 1587 views | BucksRanger |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:01 - Jun 12 by Boston |
Can’t recall the name Regal. Whenever we were in that part of Ealing Rd we’d be over chatting with Henry Cooper on the other side of the street, top bloke, always joked with the kids, sometimes fire a bit of fruit at us. |
Yes, Henry Cooper's was opposite the cinema. Regal was renamed ABC in 1962. Found this to give a bit more detail.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/23644 |  | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:45 - Jun 12 with 1587 views | MrSheen |
Anyone been here? Buzz Bingo (formerly Granada), Tooting?
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 18:57 - Jun 12 with 1540 views | flynnbo |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 15:45 - Jun 12 by MrSheen |
Anyone been here? Buzz Bingo (formerly Granada), Tooting?
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i tried to post that photo. I went to all the cinemas in Tooting, Balham and Clapham in my youth but don't remember it like that. |  | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 19:04 - Jun 12 with 1536 views | onlyrinmoray |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 11:40 - Jun 12 by NorthantsHoop |
When I was a young lad and lived in Northolt, went to
South Harrow Odeon on the Northolt Road in the early 1970s for Saturday morning pictures, sadly the Odeon closed around 1972. The other cinema that I went to up to the mid 1980s was Rayners Lane Odeon, the building has a preservation order and is now the Zoroastrian Centre. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/11167 [Post edited 12 Jun 2020 11:42]
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I lived in Northolt as a boy I remember going to South Harrow odean and seeing a Hard Days Night Where in Notholt did you live |  | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 19:14 - Jun 12 with 1529 views | johncharles |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 12:12 - Jun 12 by CliveWilsonSaid |
2 old cinemas still visible near me in Ealing.
The facade of the old ABC cinema in Ealing Broadway is being incorporated into a new development called Filmworks. Mostly flats and some shops and restaurants. A cinema is being built there too but not on the original plot.
What used to be The Avenue Theatre over the road from Northfields station is still there. It was an Odeon Cinema when I was a child and I have faint memories of going there. It closed as a cinema in 1985 and became The Top Hat Club nightclub soon after. More recently it’s been a religious centre of various kinds. Currently the Ealing Christian Centre and apparently most of the decor has been restored. |
I got to look around the Northfield Cinema some years ago and interior was pretty much intact. The Christian group occupying it were very particular about it. Do you remember the collectible record shop that had the right hand corner ? Moved to to South Ealing Road. |  |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 19:27 - Jun 12 with 1519 views | onlyrinmoray |
I saw the first Thunderbirds film there. I arranged to go to see Brentford v Hartlepool game with a school mate a Pool supporter I think his parents were from up there. We turned up at 3pm found out it was a 7 30 ko so went to the pictures to pass some time. I should say that this was in my pre Rs days | | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 20:36 - Jun 12 with 1500 views | Ned_Kennedys |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 12:57 - Jun 12 by RangersDave |
Just tried and couldnt do it for some reason.
If your on FB , just search for 'old cinema buildings' and it should take you right there.
Cheers
Dave [Post edited 12 Jun 2020 12:59]
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Hello mate: is it a private group on Facebook? |  | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:08 - Jun 12 with 1480 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 19:14 - Jun 12 by johncharles |
I got to look around the Northfield Cinema some years ago and interior was pretty much intact. The Christian group occupying it were very particular about it. Do you remember the collectible record shop that had the right hand corner ? Moved to to South Ealing Road. |
Yes I know the record shop then and now. I didn't actually realise it was the same one. |  |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:11 - Jun 12 with 1477 views | JohnMcCo |
Great work Dave, there is a historian in West Hampstead that does a great history blog, if you scroll down here you'll see info about Kilburn's cinematic history.
http://kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/ | | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:24 - Jun 12 with 1453 views | hamptonhillhoop |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:06 - Jun 12 by CliveWilsonSaid |
I just did a quick search and I think it was a Cinema. I had no idea. I went to school just down the road, it was just Tesco to me. |
Cheers. I remember being told when I worked there that it was. Seems it was. Obviously now, Granada Theatre was a cinema chain. Get yourself there Dave!
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/21109 [Post edited 12 Jun 2020 22:18]
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:25 - Jun 12 with 1452 views | enfieldargh |
Used to go Saturday morning Pictures at the Kingsbury Odeon.
Started off with cartoons, then a boring Shirley Temple film, followed by the 3 stooges or the lone ranger as far as I can remember.
They only opened the stalls but we used to sneak up to the circle and lob stuff over the top.
I then progressed to soft Swedish porn at the Granada Harrow on Tuesday Afternoons. |  |
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| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:27 - Jun 12 with 1449 views | radfords |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:06 - Jun 12 by CliveWilsonSaid |
I just did a quick search and I think it was a Cinema. I had no idea. I went to school just down the road, it was just Tesco to me. |
Yes it was a cinema I remember seeing Zulu there | | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 21:45 - Jun 12 with 1443 views | CiderwithRsie |
Stumbled across this place in Monmouth a year ago
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Great little town actually, only went there by accident. | | | |
| Old Cinema buildings (shameless plug) on 14:17 - Jun 13 with 1378 views | RangersDave |
Hi guys,
Some excellent ones there and i'll try and get to them soon.
No doubt, as architecture goes, they are fantastic reminders of a bygone age.
Appreciate all your help, suggestions and comments.
Cheers
Dave | |
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| (No subject) (n/t) on 14:32 - Jun 13 with 1359 views | MickS |
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