Granada Clapham Junction
58 St. John's Hill,
London,
SW11
58 St. John's Hill,
London,
SW11
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a view taken from a train showing the scale of the apartments covering the cinema with just the red brick flytower visible
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/4288614011/
Yea thats what i had heard but my eyes nearly popped out when i saw that hoarding! Ah well!
Clapham could do with a screen that area.
No – not as far as I am aware. I think they have “imaginatively” named the apartments Lumiere. The last I heard was that the cinema part, although due to be restored, did not have a tenant, but a church group was thought to be a likely prospect.
Are Lumiere planing a screen here?
Some photos taken September 2008 showing the new steelwork being erected over the auditorium, on top of the stage tower and the work punching through windows on the upper part of the stage tower.
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This is a photo from 2005.
Here is a photo of the former Granada, now the Lumiere apartments.
I’m thinking about buying one of the Granada apartments that are now on sale – I love the building. I was banking on the fact that the theatre would be restored to its former glory – that’s what the developers told me would happen, although they admit that they have not yet leased/sold it.
Westrex – where did you hear about the church plan? Is that definite? Thanks!
Two vintage photographs of the former Granada Theatre, courtesy of the Cinema Theatre Association archives:
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i drove past this building tonight. The hoarding now just says ‘Former Granada Cinema, For Sale"
Is the conversion still going to happen?
A set of photographs of the Granada Clapham Junction here:
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Oct 30th. 2007. At 1.30pm today i flew over it and its still there! Which is more than i can say for the Dominion in Houslow which i passed over minutes later and is now as flat as a car park!
A great view of the auditorium prior to tripling & bingo use, plus thumbnail views of the exterior as is and as will possibly be!:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/1636995131/
Anyhow, having taken some pictures this month of the Granada CLAPHAM JUNCTION (October 2007) here they are ! :–
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I have just spent some time submitting a new listing for this theatre because of the inaccurate location on CT. This is Clapham Junction NOT Battersea!
There seems to be a policy now of listing theatres as (for example) Granada Theatre, or Granada Cinema, when actually the location is (almost) part of the name – Granada Bedford or Granada Clapham Junction. This is detrimental to those seeking to add to the site as it is often difficult to find if the theatre has already been listed.
Entries are vetted and altered by CT volunteers too readily IMHO and a thorough look at how theatres are identified needs to take place.
Ben,
That looks great. Let’s hope it happens.
What about this promising-looking development: http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1001
Planning permission has been granted for conversion to a church plus some flats etc.
The hording is still in place and builders accomodation has been installed on land at the rear of the theater.
The entire building is currently surrounded by hoardings, it looks as though demolition is about to happen…….
Here are 3 excellent photographs of the auditorium of the Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction which show its condition as seen in October 2006:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbarr/274106188/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbarr/274106250/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbarr/274106317/