Theatres · South East England
Odeon Woking
Odeon Woking in England South East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
About
Odeon Woking is a cinema or movie theatre in England South East, 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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From the Wikipedia article
The Odeon at Kingstanding, Birmingham, was a 1930s cinema in the Odeon chain. Though closed as a cinema in 1962, the building survives as a bingo hall, and is Grade II listed.
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Background
History
The cinema was constructed between 1935 and 1936 to a symmetrical, modernist, art deco design by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering, the latter having joined the former's practice, as an assistant, in 1933. It was commissioned as an independent cinema, and was due to be called "The Beacon", and had 968 seats in the stalls and 324 in the circle. The first film was The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, starring Gary Cooper. Clavering, inspired by the Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, originally intended that these fins would be topped by a searchlight. The cinema closed on 1 December 1962, the final film being To Hell and Back, starring Audie Murphy.
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- Coordinates
- 51.3208, -0.5542
- Address
- Kingstanding, Birmingham, England
- Established
- 1935
- Official site
- paradoxparlours.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q41252163 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Odeon, Kingstanding (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Odeon Woking?
- Odeon Woking is in South-East England, United Kingdom.
- When was Odeon Woking built?
- Built or established in 1935.
- Who owns Odeon Woking?
- Odeon Woking is owned by Mecca Bingo.