Region: East Midlands

Odeon Cinema Leicester, Leicestershire

Published: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The former Odeon cinema in Leicester is a striking building, designed by Harry Weedon and Robert Bullivant from Odeon's favoured architectural practice. The cinema stands on a corner site at the junction of Rutland Street and Queen Street in Leicester. The cinema housed a single screen and seating for nearly 2,200 customers. It opened on 28 July 1938 and remained... Read more »
Tags: Art Deco, Cinema

Odeon Cinema Loughborough, Leicestershire

Published: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The former Odeon Cinema, located on Baxtergate in Loughborough, is a fine, surviving building from the Odeon Cinema chain. Modernist architecture was almost exclusively used by Deutsch. The chain, started by Oscar Deutsch with its first cinema in Perry Barr in Birmingham owned in excess of 250 cinemas prior to the Second World War. Like many of the early Odeon cinemas... Read more »
Tags: Art Deco, Cinema

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