Exterior pictures courtesy of Paul Francis.
Interior images courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association Archive Opened in April 1922 as a
cine-variety theatre. Sold to T Ormiston, 1924, when seating was for
1,010. Sold to Gaumont, March 1928. Closed by fire at the screen end in
1956. Modernised and re-opened as the Gaumont, 1956 [interior photos from this date]; seating was for
1,288. Renamed Odeon, December 1962. Closed in November 1980. Bingo,
then a nightclub. Destroyed by arson, summer 1993.
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