Odeon Isleworth

Isleworth, Middlesex, England

484 London Road

, Isleworth, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom TW7 4DH

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Art Deco

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	1408
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	George Coles
Firm:	Unknown

The Odeon Theatre opened on 20th March 1935 with Will Hay starring in "Dandy Dick". It was the third Odeon Theatre that architect George Coles had designed for Oscar Deutsch and his blossoming Odeon Theatres circuit.

The Streamlined curved entrance block was Germanic in style and it look particulary striking at night when the original bands of neon tube lighting was switched on. The interior was adequate in a rather plain art deco style.

It was one of the early casualties if dwindling audiences due to TV and it closed on 5th January 1957 with Bob Hope in "That Certain Feeling" and Buster Crabbe in "Gun Brothers".

The theatre was converted into a film studio with the auditorium basically stripped out of decoration. Known as Isleworth Studios, it concentraterd mainly on making advertisment films. By sheer luck, the name 'Odeon' could still be seen on the flank wall of the auditorium block for over 35 years since it ceased being a cinema, but it was removed around 1993.

The film studio moved out the building in 2001 and the auditorium block was demolished in May 2002. The front entrance block was retained, renovated and incorporated for an entrance into a new block of flats that was built on the site in 2003.

Contributed by KenRoe

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This is a picture of the Odeon in 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82305614@N00

posted by keith s on Jan 8, 2006 at 12:17pm

As a teenager I made an advert at the Studios, even then I was intrested in old cinemas but remember there was very little evidence of it having been one apart from the exterior as stated. My memory recalls there were two studios one at the front and one at the rear both roughthly the original height of the auditorium with dressing rooms built along the left handside. There was (at least as I recall it) no evidence of the circle which may have been removed. Later on I worked for a company belonging to the original owner of the studios and was told that at one time half the building was a TV property hire company and he developed the studios from this.

posted by jasonmullen on Jan 13, 2006 at 7:40am

Here is another picture, taken in 2006, showing the whole of the modern development.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82305614@N00/88523540/in/photostream/

posted by keith s on Jan 18, 2006 at 11:02pm

This is the correct link to the 2006 picture of the whole development.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82305614@N00/97946230/in/photostream/

posted by keith s on Feb 10, 2006 at 5:54am

A vintage photograph of the Odeon Isleworth, taken shortly after opening in early 1935:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kencta/148782161/

posted by KenRoe on May 18, 2006 at 6:05am

Here's a great link to TWELVE 1930's original beauties of this beauty !

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/easy_results.asp?index=1&main_query=%20isleworth&theme=&period=&county=&district=&place_name=

posted by kev phelan on Jul 1, 2007 at 5:13am

Here's a modern pic, showing all that's left of the original

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ksavs

posted by keith s on Aug 6, 2007 at 4:46pm

and here's some more !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldcinemaphotos/sets/72157603823423145/

posted by kev phelan on Sep 6, 2008 at 4:01pm

My previous link has become corrupted. THIS is what the Odeon looks like in 2009.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ksavs/1033625986/

posted by keith s on Dec 3, 2009 at 10:45am

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