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 , 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 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) (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, 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, (auditorium photograph)

DRAWER 28

CTA Casework display boards: “SUCCESSES” (1) and “ONGOING WORRIES” (2) EDINBURGH, NEW TIVOLI (exterior photograph)