CINEMA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE
ARCHITECTURAL PLANS CABINET
DRAWER 1 (George Coles)
GANT’S HILL (ILFORD), SAVOY BURNT OAK, REGENT HALIFAX, ODEON UXBRIDGE ROAD (HAYES), SAVOY
DRAWER 2 (George Coles)
KILBURN, GAUMONT STATE
DRAWER 3 (George Coles)
KILBURN, GAUMONT STATE (Photocopies)
DRAWER 4 (George Coles)
HACKNEY, EMPRESS ESSEX ROAD, CARLTON IPSWICH, ODEON UPTON PARK, CARLTON EDGWARE ROAD, REX/ODEON BARKINGSIDE, STATE
DRAWER 5 (George Coles)
BRENTWOOD, ODEON SOUTHALL, PALACE
DRAWER 6 (George Coles)
DAGENHAM, HEATHWAY LEICESTER SQUARE, EMPIRE
DRAWER 7 (George Coles)
KETTERING, REGAL LEYTON, SAVOY
DRAWER 8 (George Coles)
WELLING, GRANADA SHEERNESS, RIO STAMFORD, CENTRAL
DRAWER 9 (George Coles)
ERITH, ODEON BARKING, RIO STRATFORD, BOROUGH/REX DEPTFORD, ODEON WOOLWICH, ODEON
DRAWER 10 (George Coles)
NEW MALDEN (ODEON, SHANNON CORNER) ENFIELD, SAVOY HAMMERSMITH, COMMODORE
DRAWER 11 (George Coles)
LEYTON, RITZ WELLING, ODEON BURY ST. EDMUNDS, ODEON ISLEWORTH, ODEON
DRAWER 12 (George Coles)
BURNT OAK, SAVOY TEDDINGTON, SAVOY BALHAM, ODEON
DRAWER 13 (George Coles)
BOURNEMOUTH, ODEON SHEFFIELD, FORUM PITFIELD STREET, YE OLDE VARIETIES KENNINGTON, ODEON (Proposed cinema: drawing) LEYTON (DRAWING OF ABORTED CINEMA) [UNIDENTIFIED INTERIOR] ELEPHANT & CASTLE, TROCADERO
DRAWER 14
WORTHING, ARCADIA (Theophilus A. Allen) WORTHING, KURSAAL WORTHING, DOME (R. Kirksby Bowes)
DRAWER 15
WORTHING, DOME (The Worthing Society)
DRAWER 16
WORTHING, DOME (‘Save the Dome’ campaign information boards)
DRAWER 17
CAMDEN TOWN, GAUMONT CARLISLE, ABC WASHINGTON [CINEMA] (Clarance Solomon) NEWCASTLE, FILM STORAGE VAULTS (Jas Robertson) HALTWHISTLE, WESTGATE (Clarance Solomon) CLOPPINGTON, STAR (Clarance Solomon) WALLSEND, TYNE (Clarance Solomon) WICKHAM, REGAL (Clarance Solomon) BYKER, BAMBORO (Clarance Solomon) GATESHEAD, [THEATRE AND HOTEL] (William Hope) BIDEFORD [CINEMA] (Orphoot, Whiting and Lindsay) Drawing of proposed ODEON, HARLESDEN (architect not credited)
DRAWER 18
BRICK LANE, MAYFAIR LONDON PAVILION (Chapman, Taylor and Partners) WELLINGTON, CLIFTON (Leslie Knopp)
DRAWER 19
TELFORD TWIN CINEMAS (Leslie Knopp) STRATFORD ON AVON, PICTURE HOUSE (Leslie Knopp)
DRAWER 20
SUTTON, GRANADA (Robert Cromie)
DRAWER 21
BRIGHTON ABC (William Glen) BRIGHTON, SAVOY (C. J. Foster) SUNDERLAND, PALACE (Edward Turner)
DRAWER 22
SWANSEA, CARLTON (David Nye) SWANSEA, ALBERT HALL (David Nye)
DRAWER 23 (Alister MacDonald)
WINDSOR, EMPIRE MONTROSE, PLAYHOUSE MEXBOROUGH, EMPIRE PEEBLES, PLAYHOUSE VICTORIA, NEWS THEATRE ELGIN, PLAYHOUSE PRESTWICK, BROADWAY PORTSMOUTH, NEWS THEATRE GLASGOW, EMPIRE EXHIBITION [UNIDENTIFIED]
DRAWER 24
BEDFORD, GRANADA (Benslynn, Morrison and Jordan) UXBRIDGE, REGAL (F. Norman Bailey) CENTRAL, COLNE CHICHESTER, GAUMONT LEAMINGTON SPA, CLIFTON (Leslie Knopp) NELSON, “CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE” (Richard Jacques)
DRAWER 25
CURZON PHOENIX (drawing) WILTERN, LOS ANGELES (poster for 2002 “Grand Re-Opening”) WELLINGTON, GRAND (original watercolour of the auditorium) DOMINION, LONDON (9 photos: Double bill of Valerie [Sterling Hayden/1957] and The Shadow on the Window [Phil Carey/1957] playing) WARLEY, ODEON (photograph) CLACTON, ODEON (photograph) YORK, ODEON (photograph) COLWYN BAY, ODEON (photograph) KINGSTANDING, ODEON (photograph) KINGSTON-ON-THAMES, SUPER (original poster, peeled off a wall, with previously pasted posters underneath, advertising a double bill of Escape from Yesterday [Akim Tamiroff/1938] and The Fifth Round [Frankie Darro/1938]) Picture boards (4): “Some of the Theatres in the Odeon circuit”, with photos of Odeons at Sutton Coldfield, York, Reading, Chingford and Colwyn Bay
DRAWER 26
ODEON, LEICESTER SQUARE (2 photographs) ODEON WEST END (photograph) EMPIRE LEICESTER SQUARE (2 photographs) WARNER WEST END (photograph) TROXY (cardboard sign) SHEFFIELD, GAUMONT (Barker’s Pool/photograph) CROYDON, DAVIS (CTA commemorative plaque) Display boards: Early cinematograph operator Studios 1 & 2, Oxford Street Dalston, Rio “Do Come to See the Pictures Again” cartoon “Wonders of the Super-Cinema” (2): Cross-section of Odeon, Leicester Square
DRAWER 27
Boards (2) to fit news poster frame: “PEACE IN OUR TIME” “Unseen departments of an Odeon” (Kingston-on-Thames) “Build Your Own Cinema Model” (Bernard King) CTA information board Decorative strip SOUTHAMPTON, HARBOUR LIGHTS (exterior photograph) LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE (auditorium photograph) ELECTRIC, PORTOBELLO ROAD (auditorium photograph)
DRAWER 28
CTA Casework display boards: “SUCCESSES” (1) and “ONGOING WORRIES” (2) EDINBURGH, NEW TIVOLI (exterior photograph)