Comments about Odeon Brighton in Brighton, GB

ODEONesque on May 25, 2021 at 3:54 pm

Ian, would it be possible to buy prints of your photos of this cinema?

Pamd on January 21, 2015 at 6:33 am

Hi Does anybody know what year the Kemp Town bingo and social club actually closed,I know it was the Odeon cinema, then top rank bingo for a while, but it was after the top rank, that it was run as the Kemp Town bingo club before being used as a religious centre, then being demolished in 1986.

Ian on February 4, 2008 at 10:47 am

A few more images of the demolition of the cinema here:–

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Ken Roe on July 27, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Thanks for the correction Ian.
Here is a photograph of the auditorium you took in 1990, just prior to demolition:
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A vintage 1940’s photograph of the Odeon staff posing in the foyer:
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Ian on July 27, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Correction to the above information – the Kingswest Centre is not on the site of the former Opera House / Palladium / Odeon, It is the Brighton Centre (Conference venue and Concert Hall) which occupies the site of this former Frank Matcham designed theatre.

Ian on July 27, 2007 at 5:30 pm

A photo taken just as the demolition men took control of the building in 1990:-
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As they were part way through their work:-
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The entrance foyer after 17 years of dis-use:-
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Finally, a photo taken just after closure, before it was boarded up and showing the canopy:-
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Ken Roe on July 27, 2007 at 5:01 pm

Photographed in May 1972 showing the rendered over facade. Eleven months later it closed:
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Odeon Brighton

17 West Street, Brighton, BN1 2RL

17 West Street,
Brighton, BN1 2RL