NOTES: Built on the site of the Moorish-style Alhambra Theatre, demolished in 1936, this was the London flagship cinema of the Odeon group, opening on 2nd November 1937.
NOTES: Modernized in 1960 and closed as an Odeon in 1983, this cinema reopened the same year as a bingo hall. Renamed Mecca, it closed in 2004. It was demolished in 2007 to make way for a hotel, residential and retail complex.
SOURCE: Chippendale's one hundred and thirty-three designs of interior decorations in the Old French & antique styles (London, 1834), pl. 1 NOTES: Despite the attribution to Chippendale, all the designs were by Thomas Johnson.