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Denham Studios restaurant by Tony Wysard, 1937

Intensively populated illustration by Tony Wysard, showing imagined diners at the restaurant at Denham Studios. Illustration includes a key to all caricatures portrayed but include David Niven and Gracie Fields (table 7), Rex Harrison, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (table 5), and Charles Laughton (table 12). The artist shows himself peeping into the picture top left. Denham Studios covered over 28 acres in a 165 acre estate. There were seven sound stages, two of which were air-conditioned and the largest in Europe. Date: 1937

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Tatton Cinema Gatley NWC01_01_0639

Tatton Cinema, Gatley Road, Gatley, Stockport. The Tatton Cinema viewed from the south-west at dusk, with people gathered below the projecting porch and billboard.
The Tatton Kinema or Cinema opened in 1937. It seated approx. 1,200 people in the stalls and circle, and also had a restaurant. It was divided into the Tatton Minor and Tatton Major Cinemas in 1971, and was again subdivided to create the Tatton Mini Cinema in 1976. It was renamed the Apollo Cinema after being bought by Apollo. The cinema closed in 2000 and the building was demolished, though the facade was retained

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Odeon Weston-Super-Mare NWC01_01_1700

Odeon Cinema, Walliscote Road, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset. The Odeon Cinema viewed from the north-west at dusk.
The Odeon Cinema opened in May 1935 and was designed by T Cecil Howitt. All of the Odeon cinemas designed by Howitt featured a square tower and projecting flat slab roof

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