Windmill Soho
17-19 Great Windmill Street,
London,
W1D 7LF
17-19 Great Windmill Street,
London,
W1D 7LF
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Grand opening ad posted.
my great grandfather Ludwig Schlentheim was the owner of Somerald and Co, the first owners of Palais de Luxe in London opened in 1909.
My great grandfather went bankrupt due to anti-german racist sentiment of the investers of the theatre. He died in his car crossing a London bridge, probably from a heart attack from stress. He was also a founding member of the AA in 1905 which is still in existence today. The love of film continued through the family and my father Jeff Seaholme was an Ealing cameraman filming many of the comedies and hand picked by Charles Chaplin to film ‘A King in New York’. he also filmed Polanski’s cul-de-sac.
No mention here of the West End musical version of “Mrs. Henderson Presents”. I love this theatre’s history.
I worked over the road from that when it was Paul Raymond live sex show in the classic Gt Windmill street Jo Bradford worked there too when studios 1 & 2 was made in to 4 .it ended up as a video game arcade
recent shot of the windmill forms the background to one of my new pieces of work for a gallery show that opens in december.
The Windmill is still one of the “old school sleazey” neon gems of Soho that are rapidly dissappearing
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Some more exterior photographs of the Windmill Theatre:
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