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Odeon Weston-super-Mare is in South Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.3467°, -2.9759°.

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Odeon Weston-super-Mare

Odeon Weston-super-Mare in Wales South, United Kingdom.

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Odeon Weston-super-Mare is a cinema or movie theatre in Wales South, United Kingdom. Britain's listed cinemas span Edwardian picture palaces, Art Deco super-cinemas of the 1930s, and the surviving independent neighbourhood houses.

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The Plaza Cinema is an art deco cinema in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, owned by Merlin Cinemas. It was built by Odeon Cinemas and known as the Odeon Weston-super-Mare until 2023. It was designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt and is a Grade II listed building.

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An 'Electric Cinema' opened in 1911. Among the films that it showed were ones created by its own staff, such as one of 'B.C. Hucks at Weston-super-Mare' which showed the first aeroplane crossing of the Bristol Channel. The site was redeveloped in 1934 by Odeon Cinemas and opened in 1935. T Cecil Howitt was chosen as the architect, this being one of four Odeon cinemas that he designed. The others were the Odeon Cinema, Bridgwater (1936) and at Warley (1934) and Clacton (1936). They all had similar 'moderne' features with a square tower with a flat slab supported by columns and a squat main building. It was built in a prominent location on the corner of Walliscote Road (also known at this end…

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