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The Odeon at Kingstanding Circle. Photograph: Andy Mabbett, July 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Terry Jay · 1960s · The Odeon

A lifetime in one building

Went as a child with his sisters, buying sweets from Mores sweet shop beforehand — and later worked in the very same building as a bingo caller in 1966.

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Art Deco detail of the frontage Edith would have known. Photograph: Andy Mabbett, July 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Angela Cotgrave · 1930s · The Odeon

Grandmother Edith, usherette

Her grandmother Edith worked as an usherette in the cinema’s early days, and lived on Brockwell Road.

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