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The Rex is a cinema in the town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Designed in the art deco style by David Evelyn Nye in 1936, the cinema opened to the public in 1938. After 50 years of service, the cinema closed in 1988 and became derelict.
The Rex was eventually turned into a bingo hall and then closed in 1988, but the building was listed Grade II by English Heritage, preserving it from demolition by property developers. A local campaign to restore the Rex succeeded and in 2004 it was re-opened as an independent cinema. [5] During World War II Nye served in the Royal Navy. After ...
Free plan, in the architecture world, refers to the ability to have a floor plan with non-load bearing walls and floors by creating a structural system that holds the weight of the building by ways of an interior skeleton of load bearing columns. The building system carries only its columns, or skeleton, and each corresponding ceiling.
Berkhamsted (/ ˈ b ɜːr k əm s t ɛ d / BUR-kəm-sted) is an historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Bulbourne valley, 26 miles (42 km) north-west of London. [2] [3] The town is a civil parish with a town council within the borough of Dacorum which is based in the neighbouring large new town of Hemel Hempstead. [4]
A cab driver claims he “had no idea” he had become the getaway driver for a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, according to reports. Dennis Ferrante was working his normal shift when a man ...
The Rex Cinema may refer to: The Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, noted for the 1978 Cinema Rex fire; Cine Rex, a theatre in Antwerp destroyed by a V-2 rocket attack on 16 December 1944; The Rex, Berkhamsted, a Grade II listed cinema in Hertfordshire, England, UK; Rex Cultural Center by B92 in Belgrade, Serbia (formerly Cinema REX)
A 20-pound chandelier that hung in the RMS Titanic has arrived at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, after spending decades sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Egerton House was one of two Elizabethan mansions in Berkhamsted, the other being Berkhamsted Place, located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north near to Berkhamsted Castle; both mansions were demolished during the 20th Century. The site of Egerton House is thought to have previously been the site of St Clement's Hospital, a medieval hospital.