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In the 1930s, when Tooting was mostly farms, a grand cinema was built, and it’s still there today, and still open to the public. This the Granda Tooting, the only Grade I listed cinema from the 1930s in the UK, … Continued

Of all the striking examples of modern architecture that sprung up across the British Isles during the 1930s, the cinema must surely be considered to have had the greatest impact. A new hardback photobook charting the history and fate of … Continued

A building site next to Leicester Square will soon become a cinema and hotel — and recently there was a chance to look around while it’s still concrete and steel. Source: Inside The Londoner, a new hotel for Leicester Square … Continued

Fancy having your name inscribed on the walls of a restored art-deco cinema? There’s a chance in Bromley, South London. Picturehouse Cinema has taken over the 1936 George Coles’ designed Odeon, which more recently has operated as an Empire and … Continued