Dalston Picture Playhouse
66 Kingsland High Street,
London,
E8 2JP
66 Kingsland High Street,
London,
E8 2JP
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There is an error on the topography: Colvestone Crescent ended at Ridley Rd (Not Kingsland Rd). It is Ridley Road market. Not Rigby Road.
Photo added showing the building around 1960 when it was Lyons Clothing Shop, and the auditorium had been split horizontally and windows and doors added onto Ridley Rd, at the right of the photo is a glimpse of the tiled frontage
This was the Dalston Picture Playhouse of 1914, initial plans had an entrance on Ridley Rd but final plans had a full entrance onto the High Street, it seated 485 people with stalls and circle, it was a long tall and narrow building (purpose built) with a barrel vaulted ceiling, it stood on roughly the footprint of the current Poundland store which is a new building from when the whole area was redeveloped into the Kingsland Shopping Centre. It didn’t seem to have much success and its licence lapsed in 1916, and by 1920 when a Mr Odell applied to reopen it he found the cost of repairs too heavy and it never operated as a cinema again. Its architect was Ernest Cannell.