This event has finished Took place on: Tuesday, 11th Aug 2015
The West End has always been the UK’s premiere location for cinemas. This walk will not just show you some of the cinemas which still operate today but will also point out some of the buildings which once housed cinemas – large and small. In all, we will see 20 buildings or locations which are or were cinemas.
We shall hear about how quite a few of these buildings replaced old Music Halls and how in the 1920s, developers hedged their bets by having stage facilities as well as a projection room. We shall learn about the small specialist cinemas showing foreign language movies, cartoons and newsreels and how many of these declined into seedy places showing X rated movies before finally closing. Sadly most of the wonderful interiors of these buildings no longer exist, but on this walk we can usually get a peek of a surviving 1920s foyer. And we end up at a pub which started life as a cinema in 1911. But you will certainly get to see the wonderful exteriors and hear the stories associated with these fascinating buildings.
Meet outside Piccadilly Circus Station, between the Criterion Theatre and Restaurant. You can check travel options at the Transport for London Journey Planner.
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