Step aside all ye pretenders of yore; it’s time to show you my new favourite website. English Heritage – the body charged with protecting, maintaining and promoting the UK’s historic buildings – has launched a new Tumblr on which they treat us to images from their incredible photographic archives. With more than seven million to choose from, the Tumblr takes a thematic approach to curation, showcasing several examples of the same thing each day (today is gravestones, yesterday was railway signal boxes).
Photo of Batu Road (now Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman) with Odeon Cinema located at the left of the photo. Credit: skyscrapercity.com
Oscar Deutsch’s cinemas were the most exotic architecture in many British towns and cities. But the wrecking ball has claimed many – and is still swinging
Between 1928 and 1939, Oscar Deutsch wowed the British public with one of the most extraordinary estates of Streamline Moderne cinemas ever built – ...
Odeon Cinema and Post Office circa 1961.
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Photo of Odeon Doncaster in Doncaster, GB
Arrowhead Autumn1958
The Odeon Flat Street Link to internal picture: http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21269
Photo of Crewe, The Square 1951 from Francis Frith
THIS photograph from the Telegraph archives shows Accrington town centre from an unusual viewpoint.
West along Bourke St #Melbourne across Swanston c,1940, with shiny new Odeon Cinema and Woolworths Building (both demolished for Centreway 1978) to R of Leviathan. This was the final year cable trams ran in the city, and these were the final routes to close (along Bourke from Spencer to Nicholson St, Carlton and the corner of Dundas & High Sts in Northcote).
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Now the Ellen Terry Building, it is being transformed by Coventry University
Take a look at York's Odeon cinema as it was when it opened and see it being restored.
I'm a new member to the urban exploration fold but seeing the thread that was posted about the York Odeon I thought people might be interested in the...
