Odeon Wolverhampton
Skinner Street,
Wolverhampton,
WV1 4LD
Skinner Street,
Wolverhampton,
WV1 4LD
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Closed in 2020, and still ‘Permanently Closed’ in 2024, it should not be showing as ‘open’ on here…
Further pictures of the Odeon as the Diamond Banqueting Suite can be seen here. They were taken in October 2009, and the balcony was yet to be restored, but work is due to start on this area shortly. It is looking in splendid condition, and it is good to see a use being found for the Odeon which does not damage the scale and appearance of the building.
Exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/4024891707/
Foyer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/4024891951/
Auditorium
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/4025643814/
As we speak, the flyer to the facility has just been published on-line, and a glimpse of the renovations can be seen here:-
www.touchwolverhampton.com/business/website/value/6606746
Enthusiasts of rescued cinemas (Odeons in particular) might like to know that this past week has seen the re-opening of our 1930’s buidling as an Asian banqueting and conference centre. Maybe Ken Roe can advise us what was the conditionality of the listing for this place, in which case I will zip along there and see if i can get hold of a brochure for people to scrutinise.
Cheers!
Ian-the Local history website has now got itself sorted. www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk Type in just “Odeon” in the searchbox, and click on ‘images’(its pre-set on archive papers otherwise). Don’t foget to include the “inverted commas”.
The Maltby Collection on English Heritage has also been enlarged too.
I’ll still mail one or two “specials” over thwe weekend when i can (a)get my hands on them (b)Persude\my boss that 100 hrs a week isn’t all that nice really. LOL
No prob, I look forward to them.
Ian(or anyone else for that matter)would you like to furnish me with your direct e-mail details through the CT message system? I can send you photographs of the Odeon Wolverhampton in particular which should be on that site but have got snarled up in a legal wrangle regarding funding between the local archive service and their website designers, and others which i have permission to photocopy but for copyright reasons can’t as yet be published universally.
Thats a very interesting site. Great pics.
Thanks smoothie. I found the image. Excellent find! http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/
Full frontal here for you Ken! http//www.blackcountryhistory.org You can’t get a direct link on here since in the search box you have to surround the name of the subject in “inverted commas” when you get on there(They don’t tell you that on the site which leaves hundreds of punters lost completely) Don’t be too ambitious and type in Odeon,Wolverhampton. Just put in “Odeon” and you’ll get there. Click on View Record and not the photo until you get the View Image instruction but then don’t click on the instruction but the image itself. Are you all still with me?
The Black Country of the West Midlands is my home area(see previous comment) Click on Images also to get the correct database or
otherwise all you might get is Public Works entries from Victorian Times of when they emptied the dustbins.Believe me! We’re all Martians here!! LOL
A photograph from November 2006:
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Hello everyone!I’m a local history community worker specialising in cinema, TV and theatre. Cover Wolverhampton and the Black Country of the West Midlands including Birmingham.If anyone is interested in coming to Wolverhampton and/or Birmingham anytime I’ll take you round the archives of the various local authorities which have bumper collections of cinema building photos-apart from the ones I’ll be linking to their web-pages-which for copyright reasons cannot be transmitted(except at a bumper fee, unfortunately).All you have to do is buty the beers LOL. I’m in the process of doing a bibliography of cinema building pictures from film annuals etc for parking on here if possible,which will cover the whole country.
Back to the Odeon,Wolverhampton:Put my head round the door Friday last (11th January). Maintenance people were in. The 1980’s bingo fabric is still in there-how long it remains depending on how quickly it deteriorates(very fast if anything to do with Wolverhampton!). A number of listed buildings in this one-horse town have mysteriously caught fire or got demolished by accident during the past few decades……
Mecca Bingo signage above the main facade foyer window in February 2007, just prior to closing:
http://flickr.com/photos/pikaluk/393160251/
A close-up view of the entrance, possibly in the late 1940’s:
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A vintage view of the Odeon, playing the Odeon release in July 1951:
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A rather grimy look in this 1960’s view:
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