Harrow Empire and Picturedrome

The handbill (see photos) dates from May 1914, and a cutting from the [Harrow] Observer records that the Picturedrome did, indeed, close in 1914, not 1913. After the First World War it was converted into a second-hand furniture shop run by Harrow-based Biggs and Company. In 1928 Arthur Adams and Sons Furnishers took over and, since then, it was known as the Adams Building. The cutting is dated 1st August 1985, and records the demolition of the building, which had been “in a state of disrepair for the last year and even had a dangerous structures order slapped on it by Harrow Council’s engineering department”.