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Voices of Kingstanding (8)
- The Odeon club song…oor for the rest off us. Does anyone remember the Odeon song? If not, here goes We come along each Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile We come along each Sa…
- Roofers who taught Kingstanding to swim…racter who like me loved jazz, We would go to the Odeon New Street to see Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson Trio, Nat King Cole Etc.
- Henry V with the school, Mutiny on the Bounty with my future husband… taken to a clinic on the road to the left of the Odeon with her babies (my cousins who were about 10/11 years younger than me)and my treat was what I thought was a very …
- Walking round the Circle, about 1940… there. The rest of the “Circle” was taken by the Odeon cinema which stood between Kettlehouse Lane and Kings Rd and the Kingstanding Pub between Kings Rd and Kingstandin…
- Dulwich Road was great!…. There were school trips such as to Kingstanding Odeon to see Henry V (super!) and also to Birmingham Town Hall to hear the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra also wonderful.…
- Queuing for Wimbush’s cakes in wartime…Mecca sweet shop round the corner facing onto the Odeon was the British Restaurant people could buy bowls of vegs all to help out with the rations I suppose my friend and…
- Steak and kidney pies at Rochelle’s…arliest memories…. being carried by my dad to the Odeon cinema in the dark with my pyjamas on, i suppose ready to be put to bed when they got home. I remember Harry Roche…
- The bingo yearsRemembers the building becoming a bingo hall around 1973 and running until 1999; his grandparents Annie and Edward Raven of Esher Road went regularly.
Heritage archive (8)
- Odeon, New Street22 February 2015 — The Odeon, opened as the Paramount in 1937, stands on the rear part of the old school site. Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Former Odeon cinema, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr13 July 2024 — The first Odeon, on Birchfield Road, in 2024. Photo: A J Paxton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- The Kingstanding pub and the Odeon, 1960s1960s — The Kingstanding Odeon in the 1960s. Copyright Ron Jameson. From the Voices of Kingstanding page of memories of the Beacon / Odeon Cinema / Mecca Bingo at the Cir…
- A soldier with a pint outside the Odeon, 1940s…A soldier in battledress, glass in hand, with the ODEON sign behind him. A cheerful soldier in British Army battledress with a white belt holds a glass of beer. Behind hi…
- The Odeon the week before it opened, July 1935July 1935 — The Odeon days before it opened in July 1935: workmen still busy out front, and the canopy announcing the “Grand Opening Ceremony Monday Next at 8”.
- The Circle and the Odeon from the north-west, 1938…1938 — From the north-west, 8 September 1938: the Odeon, opened three years earlier, stands on the Circle where Kings Road meets Kingstanding Road, with Maryvale and Shad…
- Kingstanding Odeon1935 — The cinema was designed and built by Harry Weedon and opened on July 22nd 1935. It eventually closed in December 1962 and, like many other cinemas, re-opened as a …
- The Banqueting Palace, Birchfield Road29 May 2014 — The former Odeon as the Banqueting Palace in 2014. Photo: Elliott Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Birmingham history: places (4)
- Odeon, Birchfield Road, Perry BarrThe first cinema to carry the name Odeon, opened by Oscar Deutsch on Birchfield Road in 1930. It closed as a cinema in 1969 and became a bingo hall and then a banqueting …
- Hen and Chickens Hotel, New Street…odern shop building at 141 New Street, beside the Odeon, covers the site. Nothing marks the balcony from which Attwood spoke to Birmingham.
- King Edward’s School, New Street…as pulled down in 1936. King Edward House and the Odeon now cover the site. A school on the guild’s land King Edward’s School had been on New Street since its charter of …
- Gaumont Palace, Colmore Circus…pened just six months after Oscar Deutsch’s first Odeon on Birchfield Road in Perry Barr. The building was designed by William T. Benslyn. Cinema Treasures records that i…
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Landmarks & places (3)
- Kingstanding Circle…anding since the 1930s, ringed by shops, with the Odeon’s tower beside it. Kingstanding Circle is the great roundabout where Kings Road meets Kingstanding Road — the hear…
- The Kingstanding pub…g Road and Kings Road, across the Circle from the Odeon, and for thirty years it was where Kingstanding drank, bowled, caught the bus and sent off its pigeons. Rooms galo…
- The Mayfair Cinema…e of shops, Mayfair Place, went up alongside. The Odeon on the Circle would not open for another four years. For thirty-two years the Mayfair was the other picture house,…