Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas, Woolworths at 12:00 on 10 March 2019
This is now a B&M Bargains but may once have been a Woolworths. It has that look:-

Eden Rural Power:-

Reverse view. Art Deco rule of three in upper front and lower side windows:-

Doors on the Alhambra Cinema:-

Seen in an antique shop/yard. An old advert for Critall Windows, which were the height of Art Deco style. (The link contains all my mentions of Critall Windows):-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas, Trips at 20:00 on 31 January 2019
Art Deco Building, Peterhead. Now home to Superdrug:-

Art Deco Former Pub, Peterhead. Next to former Regal/Kingsway cinema, Marischal Street:-

Once the Drummer’s Bar, now unoccupied:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas, Trips at 12:00 on 31 January 2019
The Regal/Kingsway Cinema, Marischal Street, opened 1939, stopped showing films before 1970.
High Art Deco stepping and verticals. Rule of three in separate verticals:-


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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas, Trips at 20:00 on 30 January 2019
I found several Art Deco buildings in Peterhead including two former cinemas in the style.
This one was the Playhouse (opened in 1931, finally closed 1999) in Queen Street:-

(Stitch of two photos to get it all in. It’s not really curved.):-

This photo is taken from the Scottish cinemas website 
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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas, Woolworths at 20:00 on 29 October 2018
These photos were shot from one or other of the two bus tours we took in Liverpool.
This looks like a former Burton’s* but may not be. It’s certainly Art Deco:-

A former Woolworths is to its left (right as you look at it.)

Former Woolworths closer view:-

*Edited to add:- I looked at this again and realised it was more like an old cinema so I researched old Liverpool cinemas and discovered it was the ABC Lime Street, see here.
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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Cinemas at 12:00 on 13 June 2018
The ultra-modern clean lines of Sneek’s cinema argue against it being Art Deco:-

Yet despite its rather austere look there’s a definite deco feel to this. It might just be the flagpole but there is “rule of three” in the windows:-

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Posted in Cinemas, Curiosities at 12:00 on 18 April 2018
On the wall of the cafe at The Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy:-

I like the rustling comment.
The other notice is less unusual:-

Pedant’s corner:- I note independant above (independent.)
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Posted in Cinemas, Cruise, Foreign Football Grounds, Spanish Football Grounds, Trips at 20:00 on 7 March 2017
Street in Avilés, cinema to right:-

More streets:-



The last above was just off a town square. On the opposite side of the square was a stadium, the Estadio Municipal Román Suárez Puerta, home of Real Avilés C F, now in the fourth tier of Spanish football but which has cahieved the dizzy heights of Tier 2 for a total of 13 seasons, but not since 1992, which was also the season they progressed their furthest ever in the Copa del Rey, Round 5:-

A sign on the stand’s gable end says El Quirinal which I thought at the time was the stadium’s name but is in fact the street’s:-

From (pedestrianised) square:-

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Posted in Art Deco, Cinemas, Trips at 10:00 on 8 December 2016
In a previous post on Art Deco in Groningen, The Netherlands, I showed two photos of a cinema. This year I took more views of that building. This is the rear view:-

This is the view from the street that runs beside it back to front:-

Lovely window arch on cinema wall:-

Detail on window arch, a sculpted head:-

Great columning and glazing towards front:-

The glazing has fantastic detailing:-

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Posted in Art Deco, Cinemas, Modern Architecture, Trips, War Memorials at 19:00 on 30 October 2016
Almost the first thing I noticed on getting out of the car in King’s Lynn was a blocky Art Deco building with typical deco glazing. (Note Greyfriar’s Tower behind):-

It wasn’t till working round the town that I discovered it was the former Ritz Cinema, now a bingo hall:-

Note “rule of three” in the doors and the columns and windows above them. View from main street (again you can glimpse Greyfriars Tower behind):-

Other side view (from the War Memorial and in front of Greyfriars Tower):-

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