Odeon Dudley
22 Castle Hill,
Dudley,
DY1 4QQ
22 Castle Hill,
Dudley,
DY1 4QQ
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Just a thought Harry Weedon never designed a Cinema Th person credited as assisting him Did it. Weedon designed Houses. He prepared budgets for the Shar Prospectus in that Odeon Company. The Weedon Practice never designed anything until Robert Bullivant became head designer for the Practice.
OK it`s not a cinema any more but you have to admire the wonderful restoration job done by the JWs.
I remember going to the closing night, the poor usherettes were all in tears…!
A photograph from October 2007:
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Another shot of the exterior, this time from 1995:–
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/339681349/
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i am researching my family history, and i have found out that my great grandfather george albert richardson was the manager of an odeon cinema in the birmingham area around the 1930’s i would love to see it but i am having troble fing out which one i suspect it may be dudley does anyone know how i might find out for sure . many thanks
Here is an October 1965 photograph I took while I was the Assistant Manager of the Odeon. “The Guns of Navarone” was the film playing that week:
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Ken Roe – Thanks for adding these cinemas. This Odeon looks like a great venue. The exterior Art Deco design is fine in its understatement. Churches are great tenants for old cinema treasures. Ironic that in the old days, movie theaters were a target for many Christian denominations!
Heres another view, showing how little the building has changed, taken around 1991 when I was a manager at the nearby UCI multiplex
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Two exterior photographs of the Odeon Dudley taken in October 1949:
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A close up view taken in 1969:
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