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42-44 Old Kent Road, SE1

388 Old Kent Road, SE1

593-613 Old Kent Road, SE1

810 Old Kent Road, SE15

1910 Old Kent Picture Palace opened at 42-44 Old Kent Road, SE1 with 1,600 seats. 
1926 Cinema rebuilt (1,933 seats) to designs of Edward Albert Stone.
1918 Cinema enlarged.
1956 Picture House closed.
1966 Bricklayers Arms Flyover built over the site.


1911 Camberwell Electric Theatre opened at 388 Old Kent Road, SE1 5AA showing silent films
Later renamed Nelson Electric Theatre.
1931 Cinema closed (due to talkies?)
Current use: retail shop.

1913 King’s Cinema Palace opened at 593-613 Old Kent Road, SE1 5UT with 660 seats.
1928 Palasino Electric cinema.
1928 Palasino demolished.
1930 Astoria Cinema built on the site with 2,899 seats. 
Designed by Edward Albert Stone, who also designed the Brixton, Streatham & Finsbury Astoria super cinemas.
1939 Acquired by Odeon chain.
1953 Renamed Odeon Astoria.
1968 Cinema closed and left empty.
1978 Became an indoor skateboard park.
1984 Building demolished.
Site use: Retail supermarket.

         

1937 Regal Super Cinema opened at 810 Old Kent Road, SE15 1AJ. 
Designed by W.R. Glen (1885-1950) with 2,474 seats.
1963 Became an ABC Cinema.
1974 Closed/
Later a Bingo hall.
1981 Building demolished. 
Site use: Now flats.

Old Kent Road History Timeline



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