Keep up the pressure! Iconik buildings like this need to be saved. Over here in Barrow we've lost nearly all our old theatres and cinemas - Once they're gone they're gone for ever. Don't let it happen in Bradford!!
The Odeon formerly known as the Gaumont Cinema was where The Beatles appeared in the sixties and the cinema can be spotted by the eagle-eyed in 'The Beatles Anthology' (footage shows the Beatles leaving the Gaumont by a side door in the alley at the top side of the theatre, Alhambra side). Built on the site of a brewery, the building when first erected was called 'The New Victoria Cinema'. On the Thornton Road side of the building, where the windows are bricked up, was a very classy restaurant.
The theatre is starting to look (sadly) a real eyesore. Once the roof starts to become weather damaged that will be the real beginning of the end, it will become dangerous and will have to be pulled down, like it or not.
Keep up the pressure! Iconik buildings like this need to be saved. Over here in Barrow we've lost nearly all our old theatres and cinemas - Once they're gone they're gone for ever. Don't let it happen in Bradford!!
Hear! Hear!
Keep fighting for the old Odeon, it's an amazing building and it deserves to shine again...
Hear! Hear!
I like this building a lot and it should be saved, this situation is ridiculous!
The Odeon formerly known as the Gaumont Cinema was where The Beatles appeared in the sixties and the cinema can be spotted by the eagle-eyed in 'The Beatles Anthology' (footage shows the Beatles leaving the Gaumont by a side door in the alley at the top side of the theatre, Alhambra side). Built on the site of a brewery, the building when first erected was called 'The New Victoria Cinema'. On the Thornton Road side of the building, where the windows are bricked up, was a very classy restaurant.
Adam Faith and Emile Ford appeared there in February 1960.
The theatre is starting to look (sadly) a real eyesore. Once the roof starts to become weather damaged that will be the real beginning of the end, it will become dangerous and will have to be pulled down, like it or not.
Please renovate it before it falls down of it's own accord.
@Schenkerflyingv agree!
Jan Anderson - a Leeds telephone number, I notice.