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A florid affair of c1900 with lots of fussy details, a jolly collection of gabled dormers and octagonal lantern. Grade II listed. It was in a rather sorry state, either mostly or totally disused. The four men roughly in the middle of the picture had been walking about and staring at the building for some time, an indication, one hopes, of plans afoot to revive its fortunes.

One of forty rocket sculptures that form an art trail across Leicester city's streets and open spaces. They each stand at almost 8ft in height and are sponsored by a local business. This sculpture is called Scorpius and is located in Orton Square, in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester. On the left is the Athena building, it was originally an Odeon cinema which opened in the 1930s, with one screen and 3,000 seats. By the 1990s is had fallen into disuse, but has now reopened as a conference centre.

The Athena building in Leicester was originally an Odeon cinema. It opened in the 1930s, with one screen and 3,000 seats. By the 1990s is had fallen into disuse, but has now reopened as a conference centre.

A conferencing and banqueting venue, built in the Art Deco style in 1936, it was the former Odeon Cinema which closed in the 1990s.

Cinema, 1936-38, designed by Robert Bullivant of Harry Weedon's Office for the Odeon Cinema group. Converted into three screens in 1974. Grade II listed.

Built 1938 by Robert Bullivant. It has, writes Pevsner, "the Dudok-influenced decorative brickwork and inflated curved forms typical of this chain" (e.g. Image]). Grade II listed. It was subdivided into three in 1974, before the advent of a large multi-screen cinema out of town rang the death knell in 1997. However, it has now been restored and is branded as the Athena venue for all manner of events. Willem Dudok was a Dutch modernist architect.

On the right is Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue, originally an Odeon Cinema built in 1936. The building on the left is the Curve Theatre, opened in 2008.

One of ten globe sculptures dotted around the city. This one is by Zita Holbourne, and is called Echoes in the Present. Orton Square is part of the Cultural Quarter of Leicester. Behind the globe is the Leicester Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue, built in the Art Deco style in 1936, it was the former Odeon Cinema which closed in the 1990s.

In the cultural quarter of the city of Leicester.

This is part of the Cultural Quarter of Leicester, on the right is the Curve Theatre.