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Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
The cinema was designed by Julian Leathart and W. R. Grainger for Joseph Mears Theatres Ltd, and was opened on 21 April 1930, as the Richmond Kinema. It seated 1,533, in stalls and circle levels. [2] It was also a theatre, with stage and dressing rooms, which have survived. [3]
Odeon Cinemas Group Limited [1] is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. [2] It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. [3] [4] Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
Nowadays, the economy of Kilmarnock is largely based on public service and office work, with local property redevelopment and regeneration company, The KLIN Group occupies the former Andrew Barclay Sons & Co offices in West Langland Street, [77] Brodie Engineering operate two production factories for locomotives in the town centre [78] and ...
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John Halle's Hall stands in the centre of Salisbury on the south side of the road known as New Canal, a little distance south of the central market place. In 1455 he already owned property on the Ditch (New Canal) and in Carternstrete (Catherine Street) to the east. [ 4 ]
The upper floor which faces towards London Road contained the Athenaeum reading room. The final cost for the construction of the Corn Exchange was estimated to be just over £6,000. [3] The opening of the Corn Exchange was commemorated by two performances conducted by the Kilmarnock Philharmonic Society of Judas Maccabaeus (Handel) by Thomas ...
Funny Girls relocated to the former Odeon Cinema on Dickson Road in 2002. [1] The cinema was designed by Robert Bullivant and was opened on 6 May 1939. It has a capacity of 3,000 and is the largest original Odeon cinema. It was converted into a 3-screen cinema in 1975. In 1994, the building was registered as a Grade II listed building. [2] The ...