INCREDIBLE FIND INSIDE Odeon Preston HIDDEN FROM VIEW

THIS IS A STUNNER hidden from the shopping street, you would never know what you are walking past. It is hidden in plain sight. MY jaw dropped when I saw what was inside this massive building. I do hope this building is protected and brought back to its former glory as its ceilings alone are a sight to behold.



Provincial Cinematograph Theatres(PCT) opened the New Victoria Theatre in Church Street, Preston on 17th September 1928.

It is a huge structure, PCT had bought up an unfinished but largely complete cinema planned to open as the Coliseum and seat 900 and turned this auditorium into the crush hall! They then employed architect W. E. Trent to build a sumptuous cine/theatre behind the existing structure complete with full stage and cafe. There was seating for 1,450 in the stalls and 670 in the single balcony. The New Victoria Theatre was equipped with a Wurlitzer 2Manual/9Rank organ that was opened by Leslie J. Rogers.

PCT were taken over by Gaumont British Theatres in February 1929, and the cinema was re-named Gaumont in 1952. It closed for sub-division in 1962 and reopened on 28th January 1963 with the circle extended forward to create a new (and much plainer) Odeon with 1,229 seats. The re-opening film was Norman Wisdom in “On the Beat” and was attended by film star Leslie Phillips and comedian Stanley Baxter. Odeon 2 was opened in 1970 using the former cafe space and seating 105. The stalls became a dance hall named Top Rank Suite with a new fully sprung maple floor installed.

The whole complex closed in September 1992 and the upper parts of the building remain unused in 2008. A nightclub operates from the former stalls/dance hall section.



SOME GREAT OTHER VIEWS OF THE CINEMA HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bdRBXcK5kY




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