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The George Inn, an 18th-century listed pub on the High Street [32] Like most towns of its size, Beckenham has several leisure organisations and societies. [33] The local Odeon cinema has six screens and is a grade II listed building. [34] The Beckenham Festival of Music and Dancing takes place every November. [35]
One of the former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, pictured in May 1980.This is now a Sports Direct branch.. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch.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 ...
Beckenham Cemetery is located in Elmers End. The name Beckenham came about 50 years later, although this claim is completely contradicted by the Bromley Council website which shows Beckenham being historically present since AD862 and Elmers End since AD1226. [1] Elmers End station opened in 1864 in what was then still a rural area.
The former Odeon cinema, now an Everyman, in Muswell Hill is a Grade II* Listed Building Parallel with Muswell Hill was a track known as St James's Lane which ran across a triangle of wasteland. By the middle of the 19th century houses were already dispersed along the lane at the foot of which was Lalla Rookh , a two-storeyed villa with a wide ...
Between 15 and 20 December 1986, the Norwegian band a-ha held 6 concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon. [25] At the start of the seminal Public Enemy album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, they are heard addressing the Hammersmith Odeon crowd at a concert there in 1987. Due to trouble outside the venue before and after the show, the ...
The Beatles performed at the Odeon in 1964, as did The Rolling Stones with Ike & Tina Turner and The Yardbirds in 1966. [2] Bob Dylan also appeared at the Odeon on his landmark 1966 tour. The venue has also hosted bands such as The Who in 1971, Led Zeppelin and Emerson, Lake and Palmer in 1972, and Queen in 1975. The Ramones performed here in ...
Orpington is a town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley.It is 13.4 miles (21.6 km) south east of Charing Cross.. On the south-eastern edge of the Greater London Built-up Area, it is south of St Mary Cray, southwest of Swanley, west of Ramsden, north of Goddington and Green Street Green, and east of Crofton and Broom Hill.
Tolworth Tower, built on the site of the former Tolworth Odeon Cinema [42] is an office block designed by George Marsh of R. Seifert and Partners [43] and opened in 1963. [44] The tower is 265 feet high with 22 floors.