Newcastle Architecture : Odeon Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle
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Newcastle Architecture : Odeon Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle
Image: © Richard West Taken: 13 Dec 2014
The former Paramount Cinema, the last complete Paramount in Britain: latterly the Odeon (future uncertain). 1930-31 by Frank Verity and Samuel Beverly. Art Deco interior by Charles Fox. The ghastly building to the right, projecting out into the road on pilotis, is Commercial Union House by Howell Brooks Tucker & Partners, completed in 1971. Source of information : Grace McCombie (2009) : Newcastle and Gateshead (Pevsner Architectural Guides - Yale University Press) p143
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