Odeon Putney
25 Putney High Street,
London,
SW15 1SN
25 Putney High Street,
London,
SW15 1SN
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I started here age 16, as a trainee projectionist in August 1967, it was an amazing place to work. The hours were long, but I loved every minute of it, well most of it, the chief projectionist could be really mean after he had a couple of quarts of Old English cider. I was there when it closed and it was one of the saddest days of my life when we had to gut the inside and put everything on a lorry to be taken away. I did have many souvenirs, sadly long since dissapeared.
A picture after closure
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The Palace Cinema was equipped with a Compton 2Manual/5Rank theatre organ which was opened by George F. Somes in 1926.
Photographed as the Palace Cinema playing the Gaumont release in October 1949:
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A photograph of the rear of the Palace Cinema in October 1949:
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Photographed as the Gaumont playing the Gaumont release in May 1956:
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The facade modernised as the Odeon, photographed in April 1971 (the roofline of the adjacent ABC (ex Regal) can be seen to the left of shot):
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