New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Friday Photo: Kingstanding Odeon

Posted January 8th, 2016 by Julie Webb with 1 Comment

  Today’s Friday photo is the old Odeon in Kingstanding, which is now a popular Bingo club. The building was original constructed by Weedon and Clavering between 1935-1936 in an symmetrical, modernist, art deco design. It was purpose built as a cinema and ...

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The Friday Photo – Kingsway Picture House

Posted May 9th, 2014 by Tracey Thorne with 1 Comment

This week the Friday photo is the window of the old Kingsway Picture House – Cinema in Kings Heath. The Picture house is typical of the style built in the 1920s it later became a Bingo Hall from the 1980s. In 2011 ...

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Some links for April 2nd through to April 15th

Posted April 15th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

These are our links for April 2nd through April 15th: Aston Hall in frame for awards double | birminghamnewsroom.com – Aston Hall is in the frame for two prestigious awards less than a year after the completion of a £12.5 million revamp. ...

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Some links for March 20th through to March 21st

Posted March 21st, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

These are our links for March 20th through March 21st: Birmingham Mail – News – Birmingham News – Harborne and Kings Heath cinemas worth protecting say conservationists – "TWO ‘beautiful’ Art Deco former cinemas could be granted protection from demolition after winning ...

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Electric Cinema in Birmingham is 100 years old this week.

Posted December 29th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

Bette Mansfield an usherette at The Electric in the 1930's. For the original image please click on the picture. BBC news ran a good piece on the history of the Electric Cinema on Station Street in yesterday’s new bulletins.  If you ...

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