Picturehouse Central
Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue,
London,
W1D 7DH
Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue,
London,
W1D 7DH
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A planning application has been made to turn this into a Picturehouse cinema complete with new ground floor entrance, cafebar etc.
From Westminster council’s website:
13/09849/FULL | Use of part ground, first, second, third, and fourth floors as a mixed use cinema, cafe, and members' bar Sui Generis. Erection of new roof terrace at fourth floor for use as members' bar which is enclosed by new railings and accessed by a new stair core on Coventry Street elevation. Erection of three canopies over proposed fourth floor terrace. Installation of replacement windows at third and fourth floor levels on Coventry Street and Great Windmill Street elevations. Installation of replacement ground floor shopfront to colonnade on Great Windmill Street. Installation of two pairs of gates in existing ground floor railings on Great Windmill Street elevation. Erection of three awning at front ground floor level on Great Windmill Street elevation. Installation of two dormer windows in roofslope at fourth floor level on Coventry Street elevation. Installation of new plant at fourth floor and roof level. Internal alterations. | 7-14 Coventry Street London W1D 6DG
Recently had new foyer carpet and all circulation areas repainted.
According to a planning application for the redevelopment of part of the Trocadero complex into a hotel, seating capacities are:
Screen 1 – 205
Screen 2 – 505 Screen 3 – 155 Screen 4 – 84 Screen 5 – 83 Screen 6 – 97 Screen 7 – 164
The smaller screens on the top floor have finally gone digital. Rather glad of that as the quality of projection in some of those screens was often laughably bad! Also seems to have gained the benefit of music before films instead of a hissing noise.
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In the top right of this pic you can see the entrance to this cinema in its guise as MGMM in 1994.
Very grainy shot of screen 1: View link
Close up of seats in screen 6: View link
stunning exterior shot october 2009 as scaffolding goes up for external cleaning and removal of the Planet Hollywood signage
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Here is a photo of the London Pavilion which now houses the Trocadero centre:–
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Here is a photo from July 2006 of the Shaftesbury.