Lost Theatres & Cinemas of the Elephant & Castle (added 2018)

Lost Theatres and Cinemas of the Elephant & Castle

Theatre Royal/Elephant & Castle Theatre /ABC/Coronet
Location: 24-28 New Kent Road

1872 Theatre Royal opened
1878 Theatre Royal burnt down
1879 Replaced by Elephant & Castle Theatre by Frank Matcham.

1920s Photo of Elephant & Castle Theatre

1926 London After Dark film (Elephant & Castle Theatre from 1:00)
1928 Elephant & Castle Theatre became cinema - Theatre Royal
1932 Cinema rebuilt in Art Deco style for ABC by WR Glen.
1954 Theatre Royal now an ABC Cinema

1966 ABC Cinema rebuilt

198? ABC Cinema became Canon cinema
19?? Canon cinema became Coronet cinema
1999 Coronet closed down as a cinema.
2003 Coronet re-opened as music venue.

2017 Coronet closed

Elephant & Castle Cinematograph Theatre/Rialto
Location: 47-51 Walworth Road

1910 Elephant & Castle Cinematograph Theatre opened (800 seats)/
19?? Became Rialto
19?? Cinema closed/

Elephant & Castle Odeon
Location: 1 New Kent Road

1964-5 Odeon cinema by Erno Goldfinger built on part of site of Trocadero.

1982 Odeon became a Coronet

1988 Cinema closed down (Metro Heights built on the site).

Trocodero
Location: 1-17 New Kent Road

1930 Trocodero opened (3.500 seats). Designed by George Coles Supercinema

Photo of interior of Trocadero

1935 Trocodero taken over by Gaumont

1953 Frank Sinatra appeared at the Trocadero
1956: Police were called to break up a crowd of teenagers following the showing of the film Rock Around The Clock at the Trocadero

1958 Buddy Holly appeared at the Trocadero

1963 Trocodero closed
2008 Dennis Norden unveiled a plaque for Trocadero. Norden had been an assistan t manager there in 1940.

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