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The auditoria at Cineworld Crawley have also been refurbished.
I saw Café Society this evening - I have seen it twice. I think that this is the first time I have ever been to see a film in a cinema more than once. I enjoyed it more the second time. It is a bitter-sweet romance. I found it very moving.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell addresses the rally
Workers from four Picturehouse cinemas - Brixton's Ritzy & the Hackney, Central and Crouch End Picturehouses - stage a strike and rally in Leicester Square, London, as part of their campaign for fair conditions, union recognition and a London Living Wage. Despite widespread support from the public, high profile film and TV personalities, and the London Mayor, Picturehouse (and parent company Cineworld) are currently refusing to negotiate with the striking staff.
The rally was followed by a procession around the many cinemas in London's West End that are owned by Cineworld, and they were later joined in solidarity by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell outside the Empire, Leicester Square, itself recently purchased by Cineworld.
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Facade of Cameo Cinema 2008
The Cameo is an Edinburgh cinema which started life as the King's Cinema on 8 January 1914 and is one of the oldest cinemas in Scotland still in use. Since becoming the Cameo in 1949, it has had a tradition of showing art house films. From 1949 onward it has been an important venue for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It is at Tollcross, and since 1992 has been a three-screen cinema. The Cameo was an independent cinema until 2012, when it was bought by the Picturehouse chain, owned by Cineworld.
History
Behind a modern shopfront, much of the cinema's original architectural character remains. The entrance lobby has a terrazzo floor and one of the original pair of ticket kiosks. An inner foyer leads to the main cinema built within the 'back green' or 'back court' (courtyard) of a tenement block. Cinemas were once built like this elsewhere in Scotland, the biggest being the Rosevale in Partick, but the Cameo is the only one still operating.
The original screen was mirrored, the first mirrored screen in Scotland, and there were 673 seats in an auditorium showing silent films with orchestral accompaniment, supplied at one time by Madam Egger's Ladies' Costume Orchestra. In 1930 the cinema was fitted for sound and could start showing talkies. The space has been left largely unchanged structurally, but the audience now have better sightlines and more comfort with fewer than half the original number of seats. There is an abundance of ornamental plasterwork: columns, cornices, decorative mouldings on walls and ceilings.
The cinema, and the full tenement it is part of, was awarded Category B listed status by Historic Scotland in 2006.
Jim Poole
In 1949 the cinema was renamed the Cameo by the new owner, Jim Poole (1911–1998), a member of the Poole family who were known for their touring Myriorama shows and who ran cinemas in Scotland and England. He had been in charge of two of the family's cinemas in Aberdeen before the Second World War, and after a posting as army entertainments officer in the Middle East, wanted to open a venue in Edinburgh where he could show foreign films.
The Cameo included art house and 'continental' films in its repertoire and started its association with the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1949, when it presented a 'Continental Film Festival', including a screen version of Sartre's Les jeux sont faits, alongside the documentaries being shown by the Edinburgh Film Guild. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) and Annie Hall (1977) were among Poole's successes in attracting good audiences for films not being shown by the big chains.
Poole had begun by rescuing a decaying building with a leaky roof. Later he was able to take over an adjacent shop which, in December 1963, became the first licensed (to sell alcoholic drinks) cinema bar in the city, despite neighbours' objections. When Poole retired in 1982 the Cameo stayed shut until 1986.
After 1986
Once the Edinburgh Filmhouse had opened in 1979 a few hundred yards away, the Cameo was no longer the only public cinema in Edinburgh showing alternative and foreign-language films. After a new owner took possession in 1986 more neighbouring shops were acquired to create space for second and third screens which opened in the early 1990s. A 2005 renovation plan proposing to change the original auditorium into a bar-restaurant was withdrawn after a well-supported 'Save the Cameo' campaign influenced council decision-making. In September 2006 Historic Scotland upgraded the conservation status of the cinema to a B listing, thus protecting the interior from future alteration. The Cinema Theatre Association had campaigned for this after the owners, Picturehouse, put the Cameo up for sale. They have now taken it off the market, drawn up new refurbishment plans, and invited contributions from sponsors.
The first film shown at the Cameo, in March 1949, was La symphonie pastorale, a rare surviving print of which was shown again at the cinema in March 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the building re-opening as the Cameo.
The Cinema was named as one of the 10 best Independent Cinemas in the Guardian in January 2010.
Famous visitors
Lillian Gish, Orson Welles, Melina Mercouri and Cary Grant all visited the cinema in one Festival season or another. Sean Connery, who was born nearby, opened the bar in 1963. More recently Quentin Tarantino was there when Pulp Fiction opened in 1994 and Irvine Welsh was at the Cameo for the World première of Trainspotting in February 1996.
Other famous visitors throughout the years include Danny Boyle, Richard E. Grant, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Carlyle, Michèle Morgan, Peter Mullan, Christine Lahti, Mark Kermode, Claire Denis, Rutger Hauer, Liam Gallagher, Patsy Kensit, Ewan McGregor, Tim Roth, Guy Ritchie, Ken Loach, Bruce Campbell, Billy Bragg, Park Chan-wook, Ray Winstone, Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Jordan, Roy Keane, Charlize Theron, Duncan Jones, Michael Redgrave, Jim Dale, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Cusack, Tommy Wiseau and Danny Dyer.
In popular culture
The cinema appears in Sylvain Chomet's film The Illusionist. While hiding from the young couple, the main character, Tatischeff, accidentally enters the cinema, where Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle is playing. This is an in-joke as Tatischeff is largely based on Tati, the film itself having been adapted from a script of his.[6] Other films with scenes filmed inside the Cameo include Helena Bonham Carter's Woman Talking Dirty and Richard Jobson's A Woman in Winter. [Wikipedia]
Half of Cineworld Broad Street, Birmingham is a bit of a construction site. Most of the screens were open, apart from 5 which is being turned in a 4DX screen.
There will be a Starbucks Coffee at Cineworld.
It opens on the weekend of 22nd October 2016.
The ATM's for getting tickets have been moved from their previous position.
Bromley Odeon. The auditorium lies almost parallel to the street and is connected to the High Street by a long narrow foyer. Opened in September 1936, designed by George Coles, the Odeon was one of only a few still showing films well into the C21st, albeit renamed Empire, Cineworld, then Picturehouse, after the building was sold in 2006. It was tripled in 1976 with two cinema under the balcony, then that large screen was twinned in 1988 with Screen 4 occupying the front stalls, and Screen 1 the balcony. A further two screens were added by Picturehouse in 2019, one over the foyer block and one at the rear of the auditorium, but sadly the cinema closed in August 2024.
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Bromley, Kent, Greater London, England - Odeon / Empire / Cineworld / Picturehouse Cinema, High Street
A scanned negative from August 1990, image rescanned and reworked 2024.
I took this photo in the foyer of my local cinema, looking down on the display advertising the film "1917". I saw it a few days ago. The Guardian reviewer gave it four stars but The List gives it three, as do I. Cinematographically it is very good. The costumes appear to me, no expert, to be accurate. The barbed wire entanglements in front of the British trenches are awesomely portrayed. However, having read several histories and memoirs about the Great War, and having conversed, in my youth, with men who had fought in the trenches, I found that the premise the film was based on to be unrealistic. Also the depiction of the battle areas seemed to me to be flawed in numerous ways. The director, Sam Mendes, even includes the cliché error, near the end of the film, of a British soldier saluting whilst bareheaded.
"1917" is not nearly as realistic as the German film Westfront 1918 made in 1930. Regrettably, I can only find an unsubtitled German language version of this.
Photo caption: London’s first and only designer outlet centre – London Designer Outlet – launches in Wembley Park today.
WEMBLEY PARK’S LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET – OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
24 October 2013: London Designer Outlet today opened its doors to the public. The Capital’s first ever designer outlet centre launched with a degree of fanfare, complete with the traditional ribbon cutting and the less traditional Bollywood dancing.
At launch, the centre reported it had achieved 80% occupancy, with all 15 units set aside for restaurants filled. The new nine-screen Cineworld – the only cinema in a three-mile radius – also opened its doors today and is showing all the latest releases including Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks.
Bargain hunters were treated to a touch of personal shopping at the hands of the Bargainista Blitz Squad. The easy-to-spot team will be on-hand on key days over the next week and are privy to all the best bargains and promotions.
The team behind the 350,000ft2 centre chose to coincide launch with the start of school half-term break, enabling families from the local community to celebrate alongside them. Continuing the theme of involving local Londoners in the opening events programme, London Designer Outlet also announced the launch of two major competitions, Music Talent Search and London’s Signature Dish.
The next major date in London Designer Outlet’s calendar is the Sitare festival which comes to Wembley on 2nd November. This will be a colourful, vibrant, exciting day out celebrating the best of up and coming creativity and talent in London. The event, which will become an annual fixture in the Wembley calendar, has been conceived by the artist behind outdoor performances for FIFA and London’s Paralympics 2012, among other high profile celebrations.
James Saunders, Chief Operating Officer for Quintain, said: “Today has been a fantastic day that has really whetted the appetite for the Sitare Festival next weekend. With this and all the exciting brands set to launch their outlet stores over the coming months there is much to look forward to at London Designer Outlet.”
Oliver Nowell, Store Manager of the Wembley M&S Outlet, comments: “We’re delighted to be bringing the M&S Outlet brand to the new London Designer Outlet in Wembley. The store will offer an extensive range of high quality M&S products at great prices and we look forward to welcoming customers to see some of the exciting things we’ll have to offer.”
Kenny Edwards, Store Manager at NikeFactoryStore Wembley, commented:
“The NikeFactoryStore team is very excited to become the newest member of the London Designer Outlet catalogue of brands. We look forward to a long and healthy relationship with local consumers in Wembley Park, and our team cannot wait to provide them with a premium shopping experience in our brand new store.”
With 10.4 million people living within a 60-minute drive of the centre, and 782,000 people within 20 minute drive, London Designer Outlet has the largest catchment density for any UK outlet.
Retailers and restaurants open on launch day include: Adidas, Asics, Bjorn Borg, Cabana, Caffé Nero, Cineworld, Clarks, Costa, Daniel Footwear, Denby, Gap, Guess, Las Iguanas, M&S, Nike, Pizza Express, Phase Eight, Pret a Manger, ProCook, Skechers, Superdry, TGI Fridays, Tog 24, Trespass, Villeroy & Boch, wagamama.
London Designer Outlet is part of Wembley Park the major development around Wembley Stadium that will combine outstanding entertainment, shopping, leisure, new homes and public spaces, creating a new destination for London.
Visit the London Designer Outlet website, follow on twitter @londonoutlet or like on Facebook to keep up to date with developments, events and promotions.
-Ends-
For further information, please contact the London Designer Outlet Press Office
at Haygarth – 020 8971 3300 – LDOpressoffice@haygarth.co.uk
Notes to editors:
ABOUT LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET
www.london-designer-outlet.com/
· London Designer Outlet comprises 350,000ft2 (GEA) of retail space, delivering 70 units of retail, 15 restaurants and bars, and a brand new nine-screen Cineworld cinema complex seating 1,800 people
· 10.4m people live within a 60-minute drive of the London Designer Outlet and 782,000 within 20 minutes. 5.8m people have London Designer Outlet as their nearest outlet centre – the largest catchment density for any UK outlet
· The opening of London Designer Outlet marks the completion of the first phase of the 8m ft2 Wembley Park development, created and managed by Quintain
ABOUT WEMBLEY PARK
Wembley Park is the development by Quintain that is transforming the 85-acre (34 hectare) area around Wembley Stadium, bringing new shopping, leisure facilities, homes and public spaces to create a major new destination and neighbourhood for London.
Wembley Park will welcome millions of people every year to enjoy world-class entertainment and sporting events and an outstanding retail and leisure offer that together will provide visitors with a day out like no other.
Wembley Park will also be home to thousands of new high quality homes and a new community who will enjoy Wembley Park’s amenities, tree-lined boulevards, artisan markets and more.
Wembley Park is a phased development. Phase one is almost complete and the destination is starting to emerge:
· A four-star 361 bed Hilton Hotel with a 660-cover ballroom, 10 meeting rooms, Icons Bar, Association restaurant, Sky Bar, gym and pool opened in summer 2012
· The Brent Civic Centre is open and home to over 2,000 employees and facilities including a café, a new library and an events hub that can host up to 1,000 people.
· Completion of the first phase of new homes and Apt student accommodation block which has 600 shared apartments and studios
· London Designer Outlet (350,000 sq ft / 30,516 sq m) is the first designer outlet inside the M25, and features 70 aspirational and high street outlet stores, 15 restaurants and cafes and a nine-screen Cineworld complex
· Wembley Park Boulevard and Arena Square are some of the new public spaces open for visitors and residents to enjoy
· Wembley Arena and Wembley Stadium continue to attract the best names in sport, music and entertainment
Wembley Park is extremely well connected with two overland train stations (9 minutes to Marylebone), two tube stations (20 minutes to Bond Street) and excellent road links to motorways including the M1, M40 and M25. There are also over 3000 on-site parking spaces.
For Wembley Park enquiries please contact Kallaway PR
William Kallaway; Jack Hickmott on 020 7221 7883 or wembleypark@kallaway.com
The Bulls Head from Tennant Street.
Davenports - formerly the City Tavern on the corner of Bishopsgate Street at the Five Ways Entertainment Complex.
Has been dressed in the past as The Garrison from Peaky Blinders when they premiered at Cineworld.
Was heading to watch Jurassic World Dominion.
It is Grade II listed.
City Tavern Public House, Birmingham
SP 08 NEBIRMINGHAMBISHOPSGATE STREET
(South West side), Ladywood
997/8/10024
City Tavern Public House
II
Alternatively known as : City Tavern Public House, TENNANT STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, BISHOPSGATE STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, TENNANT STREET. LADYWOOD.
Public House. 1901, restructured internally in c.1984. Designed by James and Lister Lea for Ansells Brewery. Faced externally in terracotta, with glazed red brick and a Lancashire slate roof. Baroque style. Two storeys and attics. Corner site (entrance now blocked) with longer elevation to Bishopsgate Street. This has paired bar windows with arched heads flanking a door and with two further doors to the left (originally the entrances to the private bar and the gents on the left and the off-sales on the right). All doors have rectangular leaded overlights and all openings have dropped keyed heads of the Gibbs type. Continuous decorative band at first floor level. First floor has seven windows with 2 over 2 panes all with similar elaborate terracotta surrounds and with glazed brick between. The attic storey has two dormers with timber casements and broken segmental pediment heads with obelisks on both the kneelers and in the central breaks. The Tennent Street front has a paired bar window and a doorway on the ground floor, the windows above and a dormer above that all as before. Two chimney stacks with wreathed tops and three pots apiece. Two storey, two bay wing to right for the kitchen and yard entrance. INTERIOR. The interior was remodelled in c.1984 when Ansells sold the pub to a syndicate from ITV. Open saloon with bar of c1984 in stained wood carrying brass lamps. Screen behind is original to 1901 with marbled frame, engraved glass, stained wood shelving and leaded snob screens with hinged lights. Hatch to stairhall of 1901 and hatch to pool room (former private bar) of 1984. Doorways to external doors at each end of bar are 1984. Very steep staircase with two turned balusters to each head and stained softwood handrail, lincrusta dado. Pool room has surviving 1901 fireplace with art nouveau iron grate, and tiled surround. Coloured wired glass of probably 1984. First floor said to have pool room and dining room (not seen). HISTORY. Original plan said to have been off sales/public bar/public bar/stair hall/private bar, with the last serviced through the present hatch to the hall. In c1984 the partitions between the off sales and the public bars were removed, the bar was rebuilt and the openings between the hall and the pool room made. The first floor probably originally had a billiard room and a dining room. The exterior of this pub remains unaltered and the interior still retains much of interest.
Listing NGR: SP0589086245
Bishopsgate Street - on the north east side the City Tavern, a terracotta pub of 1901 by James & Lister Lea.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
Photocall - A Long Way from Home with Natalie Dormer at Cineworld 20 June 2013. Photograph: Silvia Escribano © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
Photo caption: Stiltwalking Princesses pictured at London’s first and only designer outlet centre – London Designer Outlet – launches in Wembley Park today.
WEMBLEY PARK’S LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET – OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
24 October 2013: London Designer Outlet today opened its doors to the public. The Capital’s first ever designer outlet centre launched with a degree of fanfare, complete with the traditional ribbon cutting and the less traditional Bollywood dancing.
At launch, the centre reported it had achieved 80% occupancy, with all 15 units set aside for restaurants filled. The new nine-screen Cineworld – the only cinema in a three-mile radius – also opened its doors today and is showing all the latest releases including Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks.
Bargain hunters were treated to a touch of personal shopping at the hands of the Bargainista Blitz Squad. The easy-to-spot team will be on-hand on key days over the next week and are privy to all the best bargains and promotions.
The team behind the 350,000ft2 centre chose to coincide launch with the start of school half-term break, enabling families from the local community to celebrate alongside them. Continuing the theme of involving local Londoners in the opening events programme, London Designer Outlet also announced the launch of two major competitions, Music Talent Search and London’s Signature Dish.
The next major date in London Designer Outlet’s calendar is the Sitare festival which comes to Wembley on 2nd November. This will be a colourful, vibrant, exciting day out celebrating the best of up and coming creativity and talent in London. The event, which will become an annual fixture in the Wembley calendar, has been conceived by the artist behind outdoor performances for FIFA and London’s Paralympics 2012, among other high profile celebrations.
James Saunders, Chief Operating Officer for Quintain, said: “Today has been a fantastic day that has really whetted the appetite for the Sitare Festival next weekend. With this and all the exciting brands set to launch their outlet stores over the coming months there is much to look forward to at London Designer Outlet.”
Oliver Nowell, Store Manager of the Wembley M&S Outlet, comments: “We’re delighted to be bringing the M&S Outlet brand to the new London Designer Outlet in Wembley. The store will offer an extensive range of high quality M&S products at great prices and we look forward to welcoming customers to see some of the exciting things we’ll have to offer.”
Kenny Edwards, Store Manager at NikeFactoryStore Wembley, commented:
“The NikeFactoryStore team is very excited to become the newest member of the London Designer Outlet catalogue of brands. We look forward to a long and healthy relationship with local consumers in Wembley Park, and our team cannot wait to provide them with a premium shopping experience in our brand new store.”
With 10.4 million people living within a 60-minute drive of the centre, and 782,000 people within 20 minute drive, London Designer Outlet has the largest catchment density for any UK outlet.
Retailers and restaurants open on launch day include: Adidas, Asics, Bjorn Borg, Cabana, Caffé Nero, Cineworld, Clarks, Costa, Daniel Footwear, Denby, Gap, Guess, Las Iguanas, M&S, Nike, Pizza Express, Phase Eight, Pret a Manger, ProCook, Skechers, Superdry, TGI Fridays, Tog 24, Trespass, Villeroy & Boch, wagamama.
London Designer Outlet is part of Wembley Park the major development around Wembley Stadium that will combine outstanding entertainment, shopping, leisure, new homes and public spaces, creating a new destination for London.
Visit the London Designer Outlet website, follow on twitter @londonoutlet or like on Facebook to keep up to date with developments, events and promotions.
-Ends-
For further information, please contact the London Designer Outlet Press Office
at Haygarth – 020 8971 3300 – LDOpressoffice@haygarth.co.uk
Notes to editors:
ABOUT LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET
www.london-designer-outlet.com/
· London Designer Outlet comprises 350,000ft2 (GEA) of retail space, delivering 70 units of retail, 15 restaurants and bars, and a brand new nine-screen Cineworld cinema complex seating 1,800 people
· 10.4m people live within a 60-minute drive of the London Designer Outlet and 782,000 within 20 minutes. 5.8m people have London Designer Outlet as their nearest outlet centre – the largest catchment density for any UK outlet
· The opening of London Designer Outlet marks the completion of the first phase of the 8m ft2 Wembley Park development, created and managed by Quintain
ABOUT WEMBLEY PARK
Wembley Park is the development by Quintain that is transforming the 85-acre (34 hectare) area around Wembley Stadium, bringing new shopping, leisure facilities, homes and public spaces to create a major new destination and neighbourhood for London.
Wembley Park will welcome millions of people every year to enjoy world-class entertainment and sporting events and an outstanding retail and leisure offer that together will provide visitors with a day out like no other.
Wembley Park will also be home to thousands of new high quality homes and a new community who will enjoy Wembley Park’s amenities, tree-lined boulevards, artisan markets and more.
Wembley Park is a phased development. Phase one is almost complete and the destination is starting to emerge:
· A four-star 361 bed Hilton Hotel with a 660-cover ballroom, 10 meeting rooms, Icons Bar, Association restaurant, Sky Bar, gym and pool opened in summer 2012
· The Brent Civic Centre is open and home to over 2,000 employees and facilities including a café, a new library and an events hub that can host up to 1,000 people.
· Completion of the first phase of new homes and Apt student accommodation block which has 600 shared apartments and studios
· London Designer Outlet (350,000 sq ft / 30,516 sq m) is the first designer outlet inside the M25, and features 70 aspirational and high street outlet stores, 15 restaurants and cafes and a nine-screen Cineworld complex
· Wembley Park Boulevard and Arena Square are some of the new public spaces open for visitors and residents to enjoy
· Wembley Arena and Wembley Stadium continue to attract the best names in sport, music and entertainment
Wembley Park is extremely well connected with two overland train stations (9 minutes to Marylebone), two tube stations (20 minutes to Bond Street) and excellent road links to motorways including the M1, M40 and M25. There are also over 3000 on-site parking spaces.
For Wembley Park enquiries please contact Kallaway PR
William Kallaway; Jack Hickmott on 020 7221 7883 or wembleypark@kallaway.com
This is the City Tavern pub, round the back of the Five Ways Complex.
It is an example of what would happen when a pub is saved, and everything around it was demolished, and a new modern building put up in it's place (in this case the Five Ways Complex).
Behind Cineworld Broad Street.
On the corner of Tennant Street and Bishopsgate Street in Birmingham.
It is Grade II listed.
City Tavern Public House, Birmingham
SP 08 NEBIRMINGHAMBISHOPSGATE STREET
(South West side), Ladywood
997/8/10024
City Tavern Public House
II
Alternatively known as : City Tavern Public House, TENNANT STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, BISHOPSGATE STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, TENNANT STREET. LADYWOOD.
Public House. 1901, restructured internally in c.1984. Designed by James and Lister Lea for Ansells Brewery. Faced externally in terracotta, with glazed red brick and a Lancashire slate roof. Baroque style. Two storeys and attics. Corner site (entrance now blocked) with longer elevation to Bishopsgate Street. This has paired bar windows with arched heads flanking a door and with two further doors to the left (originally the entrances to the private bar and the gents on the left and the off-sales on the right). All doors have rectangular leaded overlights and all openings have dropped keyed heads of the Gibbs type. Continuous decorative band at first floor level. First floor has seven windows with 2 over 2 panes all with similar elaborate terracotta surrounds and with glazed brick between. The attic storey has two dormers with timber casements and broken segmental pediment heads with obelisks on both the kneelers and in the central breaks. The Tennent Street front has a paired bar window and a doorway on the ground floor, the windows above and a dormer above that all as before. Two chimney stacks with wreathed tops and three pots apiece. Two storey, two bay wing to right for the kitchen and yard entrance. INTERIOR. The interior was remodelled in c.1984 when Ansells sold the pub to a syndicate from ITV. Open saloon with bar of c1984 in stained wood carrying brass lamps. Screen behind is original to 1901 with marbled frame, engraved glass, stained wood shelving and leaded snob screens with hinged lights. Hatch to stairhall of 1901 and hatch to pool room (former private bar) of 1984. Doorways to external doors at each end of bar are 1984. Very steep staircase with two turned balusters to each head and stained softwood handrail, lincrusta dado. Pool room has surviving 1901 fireplace with art nouveau iron grate, and tiled surround. Coloured wired glass of probably 1984. First floor said to have pool room and dining room (not seen). HISTORY. Original plan said to have been off sales/public bar/public bar/stair hall/private bar, with the last serviced through the present hatch to the hall. In c1984 the partitions between the off sales and the public bars were removed, the bar was rebuilt and the openings between the hall and the pool room made. The first floor probably originally had a billiard room and a dining room. The exterior of this pub remains unaltered and the interior still retains much of interest.
Listing NGR: SP0589086245
Bishopsgate Street - on the north east side the City Tavern, a terracotta pub of 1901 by James & Lister Lea.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
Give Way sign on Tennant Street. Above a car park sign for Five Ways Complex.
Restored office building behind soon to be a hotel called Hampton by Hilton. Formerly Cumberland House.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie at Cineworld Broad Street, Birmingham.
Saw on opening day 5th April 2023.
30 year long wait since Super Mario Bros. (1993). Which didn't do too well, but later became a cult classic.
The 2023 version was better than expected.
A sign in Cineworld Crawley reflected on the floor. I never refer to films as movies - I wonder why they do?
Photo caption: Stiltwalking Princesses pictured at London’s first and only designer outlet centre – London Designer Outlet – launches in Wembley Park today.
WEMBLEY PARK’S LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET – OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
24 October 2013: London Designer Outlet today opened its doors to the public. The Capital’s first ever designer outlet centre launched with a degree of fanfare, complete with the traditional ribbon cutting and the less traditional Bollywood dancing.
At launch, the centre reported it had achieved 80% occupancy, with all 15 units set aside for restaurants filled. The new nine-screen Cineworld – the only cinema in a three-mile radius – also opened its doors today and is showing all the latest releases including Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks.
Bargain hunters were treated to a touch of personal shopping at the hands of the Bargainista Blitz Squad. The easy-to-spot team will be on-hand on key days over the next week and are privy to all the best bargains and promotions.
The team behind the 350,000ft2 centre chose to coincide launch with the start of school half-term break, enabling families from the local community to celebrate alongside them. Continuing the theme of involving local Londoners in the opening events programme, London Designer Outlet also announced the launch of two major competitions, Music Talent Search and London’s Signature Dish.
The next major date in London Designer Outlet’s calendar is the Sitare festival which comes to Wembley on 2nd November. This will be a colourful, vibrant, exciting day out celebrating the best of up and coming creativity and talent in London. The event, which will become an annual fixture in the Wembley calendar, has been conceived by the artist behind outdoor performances for FIFA and London’s Paralympics 2012, among other high profile celebrations.
James Saunders, Chief Operating Officer for Quintain, said: “Today has been a fantastic day that has really whetted the appetite for the Sitare Festival next weekend. With this and all the exciting brands set to launch their outlet stores over the coming months there is much to look forward to at London Designer Outlet.”
Oliver Nowell, Store Manager of the Wembley M&S Outlet, comments: “We’re delighted to be bringing the M&S Outlet brand to the new London Designer Outlet in Wembley. The store will offer an extensive range of high quality M&S products at great prices and we look forward to welcoming customers to see some of the exciting things we’ll have to offer.”
Kenny Edwards, Store Manager at NikeFactoryStore Wembley, commented:
“The NikeFactoryStore team is very excited to become the newest member of the London Designer Outlet catalogue of brands. We look forward to a long and healthy relationship with local consumers in Wembley Park, and our team cannot wait to provide them with a premium shopping experience in our brand new store.”
With 10.4 million people living within a 60-minute drive of the centre, and 782,000 people within 20 minute drive, London Designer Outlet has the largest catchment density for any UK outlet.
Retailers and restaurants open on launch day include: Adidas, Asics, Bjorn Borg, Cabana, Caffé Nero, Cineworld, Clarks, Costa, Daniel Footwear, Denby, Gap, Guess, Las Iguanas, M&S, Nike, Pizza Express, Phase Eight, Pret a Manger, ProCook, Skechers, Superdry, TGI Fridays, Tog 24, Trespass, Villeroy & Boch, wagamama.
London Designer Outlet is part of Wembley Park the major development around Wembley Stadium that will combine outstanding entertainment, shopping, leisure, new homes and public spaces, creating a new destination for London.
Visit the London Designer Outlet website, follow on twitter @londonoutlet or like on Facebook to keep up to date with developments, events and promotions.
-Ends-
For further information, please contact the London Designer Outlet Press Office
at Haygarth – 020 8971 3300 – LDOpressoffice@haygarth.co.uk
Notes to editors:
ABOUT LONDON DESIGNER OUTLET
www.london-designer-outlet.com/
· London Designer Outlet comprises 350,000ft2 (GEA) of retail space, delivering 70 units of retail, 15 restaurants and bars, and a brand new nine-screen Cineworld cinema complex seating 1,800 people
· 10.4m people live within a 60-minute drive of the London Designer Outlet and 782,000 within 20 minutes. 5.8m people have London Designer Outlet as their nearest outlet centre – the largest catchment density for any UK outlet
· The opening of London Designer Outlet marks the completion of the first phase of the 8m ft2 Wembley Park development, created and managed by Quintain
ABOUT WEMBLEY PARK
Wembley Park is the development by Quintain that is transforming the 85-acre (34 hectare) area around Wembley Stadium, bringing new shopping, leisure facilities, homes and public spaces to create a major new destination and neighbourhood for London.
Wembley Park will welcome millions of people every year to enjoy world-class entertainment and sporting events and an outstanding retail and leisure offer that together will provide visitors with a day out like no other.
Wembley Park will also be home to thousands of new high quality homes and a new community who will enjoy Wembley Park’s amenities, tree-lined boulevards, artisan markets and more.
Wembley Park is a phased development. Phase one is almost complete and the destination is starting to emerge:
· A four-star 361 bed Hilton Hotel with a 660-cover ballroom, 10 meeting rooms, Icons Bar, Association restaurant, Sky Bar, gym and pool opened in summer 2012
· The Brent Civic Centre is open and home to over 2,000 employees and facilities including a café, a new library and an events hub that can host up to 1,000 people.
· Completion of the first phase of new homes and Apt student accommodation block which has 600 shared apartments and studios
· London Designer Outlet (350,000 sq ft / 30,516 sq m) is the first designer outlet inside the M25, and features 70 aspirational and high street outlet stores, 15 restaurants and cafes and a nine-screen Cineworld complex
· Wembley Park Boulevard and Arena Square are some of the new public spaces open for visitors and residents to enjoy
· Wembley Arena and Wembley Stadium continue to attract the best names in sport, music and entertainment
Wembley Park is extremely well connected with two overland train stations (9 minutes to Marylebone), two tube stations (20 minutes to Bond Street) and excellent road links to motorways including the M1, M40 and M25. There are also over 3000 on-site parking spaces.
For Wembley Park enquiries please contact Kallaway PR
William Kallaway; Jack Hickmott on 020 7221 7883 or wembleypark@kallaway.com
Photocall - A Long Way from Home with Natalie Dormer at Cineworld 20 June 2013.
Photograph: Pako Mera © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
The Bulls Head from Tennant Street.
Davenports - formerly the City Tavern on the corner of Bishopsgate Street at the Five Ways Entertainment Complex.
Has been dressed in the past as The Garrison from Peaky Blinders when they premiered at Cineworld.
Was heading to watch Jurassic World Dominion.
It is Grade II listed.
City Tavern Public House, Birmingham
SP 08 NEBIRMINGHAMBISHOPSGATE STREET
(South West side), Ladywood
997/8/10024
City Tavern Public House
II
Alternatively known as : City Tavern Public House, TENNANT STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, BISHOPSGATE STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, TENNANT STREET. LADYWOOD.
Public House. 1901, restructured internally in c.1984. Designed by James and Lister Lea for Ansells Brewery. Faced externally in terracotta, with glazed red brick and a Lancashire slate roof. Baroque style. Two storeys and attics. Corner site (entrance now blocked) with longer elevation to Bishopsgate Street. This has paired bar windows with arched heads flanking a door and with two further doors to the left (originally the entrances to the private bar and the gents on the left and the off-sales on the right). All doors have rectangular leaded overlights and all openings have dropped keyed heads of the Gibbs type. Continuous decorative band at first floor level. First floor has seven windows with 2 over 2 panes all with similar elaborate terracotta surrounds and with glazed brick between. The attic storey has two dormers with timber casements and broken segmental pediment heads with obelisks on both the kneelers and in the central breaks. The Tennent Street front has a paired bar window and a doorway on the ground floor, the windows above and a dormer above that all as before. Two chimney stacks with wreathed tops and three pots apiece. Two storey, two bay wing to right for the kitchen and yard entrance. INTERIOR. The interior was remodelled in c.1984 when Ansells sold the pub to a syndicate from ITV. Open saloon with bar of c1984 in stained wood carrying brass lamps. Screen behind is original to 1901 with marbled frame, engraved glass, stained wood shelving and leaded snob screens with hinged lights. Hatch to stairhall of 1901 and hatch to pool room (former private bar) of 1984. Doorways to external doors at each end of bar are 1984. Very steep staircase with two turned balusters to each head and stained softwood handrail, lincrusta dado. Pool room has surviving 1901 fireplace with art nouveau iron grate, and tiled surround. Coloured wired glass of probably 1984. First floor said to have pool room and dining room (not seen). HISTORY. Original plan said to have been off sales/public bar/public bar/stair hall/private bar, with the last serviced through the present hatch to the hall. In c1984 the partitions between the off sales and the public bars were removed, the bar was rebuilt and the openings between the hall and the pool room made. The first floor probably originally had a billiard room and a dining room. The exterior of this pub remains unaltered and the interior still retains much of interest.
Listing NGR: SP0589086245
Bishopsgate Street - on the north east side the City Tavern, a terracotta pub of 1901 by James & Lister Lea.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
I'm at the cinema to see the film Official Secrets. It's very good - so good that I'm about to see it for the second time.
All the ticket sales counters are empty - not surprising as it's nearly eleven o'clock at night. I'm just on my way home from seeing Eye in the Sky. A good film which deals with a complex military operation and a moral dilemma.
Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intelligence, Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren), commands a UK-based top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya.
The O2 is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, including an indoor arena, a music club, a Cineworld cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars and restaurants.
This is a shot from 1/2 rolls i ran through the lomography diana mini last year, this time experimenting with the square mask. You may be wondering why it took so long to upload this picture and the answer is i found the roll the other day tidying up and had it processed out of interest.
Diana Mini
Kodak ColorPlus 200
Another Old n New from Fulham Road....now nearly 400 in total!...Top photo from Edwardian times and most of the left hand side still stands,the brick tower of the old St George`s Union Infirmary is in the distance,it opened in 1878 and over the coming years it had name changed finally becoming St Stephens Municipal Hospital in 1931 before finally being demolished in 1989 and the Chelsea & Westminster hospital is there now....On the right hand side you can see the old Clifton Arms Pub that closed down way back in 1971!...The foreground has been swept away and in 1930 The Forum Theatre opened it also went through many name changes and is currently operated by Cineworld.....People stop and look at the photographer..AND IT STILL HAPPENS TODAY because minutes later i was stopped by the Police for just looking at some old street furniture further up by the closed jewish burial ground,so nothing really changes....hope you like the effort anyway...
I went to see the film First Man - a biopic about Neil Armstrong.
I was the first to enter the auditorium. Only another dozen or so people came … but the film didn't start until 9.30pm so that might have been the reason.
This is the City Tavern pub, round the back of the Five Ways Complex.
It is an example of what would happen when a pub is saved, and everything around it was demolished, and a new modern building put up in it's place (in this case the Five Ways Complex).
Behind Cineworld Broad Street.
On the corner of Tennant Street and Bishopsgate Street in Birmingham.
It is Grade II listed.
City Tavern Public House, Birmingham
SP 08 NEBIRMINGHAMBISHOPSGATE STREET
(South West side), Ladywood
997/8/10024
City Tavern Public House
II
Alternatively known as : City Tavern Public House, TENNANT STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, BISHOPSGATE STREET, LADYWOOD.
Alternatively known as : Bulls Head Public House, TENNANT STREET. LADYWOOD.
Public House. 1901, restructured internally in c.1984. Designed by James and Lister Lea for Ansells Brewery. Faced externally in terracotta, with glazed red brick and a Lancashire slate roof. Baroque style. Two storeys and attics. Corner site (entrance now blocked) with longer elevation to Bishopsgate Street. This has paired bar windows with arched heads flanking a door and with two further doors to the left (originally the entrances to the private bar and the gents on the left and the off-sales on the right). All doors have rectangular leaded overlights and all openings have dropped keyed heads of the Gibbs type. Continuous decorative band at first floor level. First floor has seven windows with 2 over 2 panes all with similar elaborate terracotta surrounds and with glazed brick between. The attic storey has two dormers with timber casements and broken segmental pediment heads with obelisks on both the kneelers and in the central breaks. The Tennent Street front has a paired bar window and a doorway on the ground floor, the windows above and a dormer above that all as before. Two chimney stacks with wreathed tops and three pots apiece. Two storey, two bay wing to right for the kitchen and yard entrance. INTERIOR. The interior was remodelled in c.1984 when Ansells sold the pub to a syndicate from ITV. Open saloon with bar of c1984 in stained wood carrying brass lamps. Screen behind is original to 1901 with marbled frame, engraved glass, stained wood shelving and leaded snob screens with hinged lights. Hatch to stairhall of 1901 and hatch to pool room (former private bar) of 1984. Doorways to external doors at each end of bar are 1984. Very steep staircase with two turned balusters to each head and stained softwood handrail, lincrusta dado. Pool room has surviving 1901 fireplace with art nouveau iron grate, and tiled surround. Coloured wired glass of probably 1984. First floor said to have pool room and dining room (not seen). HISTORY. Original plan said to have been off sales/public bar/public bar/stair hall/private bar, with the last serviced through the present hatch to the hall. In c1984 the partitions between the off sales and the public bars were removed, the bar was rebuilt and the openings between the hall and the pool room made. The first floor probably originally had a billiard room and a dining room. The exterior of this pub remains unaltered and the interior still retains much of interest.
Listing NGR: SP0589086245
Bishopsgate Street - on the north east side the City Tavern, a terracotta pub of 1901 by James & Lister Lea.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
I'm at the cinema watching Parey Hut Love a Pakistani film (with subtitles) The story line is cigarette paper thin but it is very colourful with splendid song & dance sequences.
Like most Indian and Pakistani films, it runs for over two hours and there is a ten-minute intermission halfway through.
SWINDON, UK - APRIL 6, 2015: The New Central Libaray in Swindon, viewed from Regent Circus Swindon's new leisure destination
Picturehouse Central Cinema, London. In 2015 the Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue was extensively remodelled to form Picturehouse Central - a 7 screen (ranging in size from 65 to 344 seats) together with a range of bars, cafes and a members club.
London Borough of Westminster, London, England - Picturehouse Central
September 2017
I went to see the film “Little Women” on Friday evening, I was perplexed. The acting is excellent, the cinematography superb, but I found the storyline hard to follow.
However, I went to see it again on Saturday evening; I understood it so much better this time. Be warned, the scenes are not in time sequence but it’s a very fine film. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bromley Odeon. Opened in September 1936, designed by George Coles, the Odeon was one of only a few still showing films well into the C21st, albeit renamed Empire, Cineworld, then Picturehouse, after the building was sold in 2006. It was tripled in 1976 with two cinema under the balcony, then that large screen was twinned in 1988 with Screen 4 occupying the front stalls, and Screen 1 the balcony. A further two screens were added by Picturehouse in 2019, one over the foyer block and one at the rear of the auditorium, but sadly the cinema closed in August 2024.
cinematreasures.org/theaters/14116
Bromley, Kent, Greater London, England - Odeon / Empire / Cineworld / Picturehouse Cinema, High Street
A scanned negative from August 1990, image rescanned and reworked 2024.
Natalie Dormer at the International Feature Jury photocall at Cineworld 21 June 2013
Photograph: Amy Muir © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
I've come to see an Indian film Bairavaa, in Tamil with English subtitles. It was really whacky - but enjoyable.
They used mobile 'phones a lot and it would seem that they have much better reception in Tamil Nadu than we do in Sussex.