Out & about with Big C, my Good luck charm. Was a super day
A little history.
The plans for the Odeon were passed by the Council in June 1936.
The Odeon opened its doors for the first time on 23rd May 1938 with Edmund Lowe in “The Squeaker”.
It was designed by architect Andrew Mather, assisted by Keith P. Roberts for the Oscar Deutsch chain of Odeon Theatres Ltd.
There were 1,000 seats in the stalls and 474 in the circle.
Its roof was painted in camouflage colours during the war but still got an enemy cannon shell through it that was probably intended for the railway station.
For many years it held a youngsters' Saturday morning film club.
In the early-1960’s it added fairly popular bingo sessions on Sunday afternoons.
The Odeon closed on 18th October 1975 with Roger Moore in “That Lucky Touch ” and Anthony Quinn in “The Con Man”.
It was converted to a nightclub and opened as Busby’s in 1976. It subsequently was revamped and renamed Millionaire’s in the 1980’s and became the British Embassy Rock Bar in 1996.
Since 2002, it traded as Liquid/Envy.
The nightclub was closed around 2011. In August 2013, it was announced that the building was to be demolished
(retaining the locally listed façade) and to build 61 apartments, a Tesco store and parking garage on the site of the auditorium.
Cheers
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A little history.
The plans for the Odeon were passed by the Council in June 1936.
The Odeon opened its doors for the first time on 23rd May 1938 with Edmund Lowe in “The Squeaker”.
It was designed by architect Andrew Mather, assisted by Keith P. Roberts for the Oscar Deutsch chain of Odeon Theatres Ltd.
There were 1,000 seats in the stalls and 474 in the circle.
Its roof was painted in camouflage colours during the war but still got an enemy cannon shell through it that was probably intended for the railway station.
For many years it held a youngsters' Saturday morning film club.
In the early-1960’s it added fairly popular bingo sessions on Sunday afternoons.
The Odeon closed on 18th October 1975 with Roger Moore in “That Lucky Touch ” and Anthony Quinn in “The Con Man”.
It was converted to a nightclub and opened as Busby’s in 1976. It subsequently was revamped and renamed Millionaire’s in the 1980’s and became the British Embassy Rock Bar in 1996.
Since 2002, it traded as Liquid/Envy.
The nightclub was closed around 2011. In August 2013, it was announced that the building was to be demolished
(retaining the locally listed façade) and to build 61 apartments, a Tesco store and parking garage on the site of the auditorium.
Cheers
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