East Dulwich Odeon - Grove Vale

[macroban]

Photo here. Quick before it disappears!

[Louisa]

What year were these pictures taken from?

[macroban]

I'm sorry, I don't know the year, Louisa.

Here's the text that goes with the photos. A film buff could work it out.

ma roban

> Professional gloss photographs of the Pavilion (later Odeon) cinema in Grove Vale, East Dulwich, south east London, by John Maltby (official photographers for Odeon Theatres, Ltd.), whose name and stamp appear on the reverse. Approximately 7 x 5 high quality finish. Exterior with the films Elephant Boy (Sabu) and Charge of The Light Brigade (Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland) and interior view taken from the balcony showing the wide proscenium arch and illuminated house tabs with distinctive cylindrical light feature to one side.

[LostThePlot]

> Exterior with the films Elephant Boy (Sabu)

1936

> The Charge of The Light Brigade

1937

www.imdb.com helped....

Anyone know where this was?

[James]

Near the roundabout I think. Cool photos Macroban!

[bawdy-nan]

Its where that new block of flats is on Grove Vale (before Goose Green School). I remember it being demolished.

[Ko]

Looks art deco in style?

[LostThePlot]

bawdy-nan Wrote:

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> Its where that new block of flats is on Grove Vale

> (before Goose Green School). I remember it being

> demolished.

Just at the end of my road....pity that..

[Jah Lush]

Where the new flats are next to the school. I remember going there as a kid in the sixties, in the early 70s it was turned over to a religious sect and called the Palace of Peace. The so-called guru turned out to be a charlatan (No surprise there), spending money on women and Rolls Royces etc etc, after that it was offices for a while before being demolished at an estimated guess about 8 to ten years ago.

[bawdy-nan]

When they were demolishing it, if you sat on teh top deck of a bus going past you could see inside and the keleton of the cinema - very sad ... I reckon a cinema woud do pretty well round here ... (I know there's Peckham)and I was there ony the night before last

[SeanMacGabhann]

I think the pent-up demand for a cinema is not quite as feverish as it was for a butchers before William Rose arrived, but it might not be far off. But the only buildings/sites I would have thought suitable candidates have been put to other uses (the gym near Thomas More Hall and Foxton's being the sites I had in mind)

[Ko]

I think the flats may be the ones at the junction with Tintagel Crescent. I think the flats are maybe for hospital workers.

[Jeremy]

Sean - the police station (or part of the plot)? Very unlikely to happen though, building 10 flats would be much lower risk.

[SeanMacGabhann]

oooh - good shout Jeremy. But you're probably right as well :(

[Michael Palaeologus]

I had a business meeting there many years ago when I was managing a business development grant. They imported, personalised and distributed watches, etc. Quite nice having a meeting 5 minutes walk from home, rather than a thousand miles away for a change.

[Narnia]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Where the new flats are next to the school. I

> remember going there as a kid in the sixties, in

> the early 70s it was turned over to a religious

> sect and called the Palace of Peace. The so-called

> guru turned out to be a charlatan (No surprise

> there), spending money on women and Rolls Royces

> etc etc, after that it was offices for a while

> before being demolished at an estimated guess

> about 8 to ten years ago.

Have to say I disagree with you re. the Rolls Royces. I saw the said 'Guru' a couple of weeks ago in the NEC in Birmingham and one thing he happened to mention were the stories about all his cars which existed years ago i.e the 70's

He went on to say that if he did have that number of cars he was supposed to have he wouldn't have chosen Rolls!

As for the women, when he went to the Palace of Peace he would have been a teenager. He is now nearly 50. In the interests of honesty I don't believe he can be accused of being a charlatan either.

[Mark]

so there was a house of 'Premies' in Dulwich? Blimey

[Narnia]

There was a long time ago.........Were you one?

[Mark]

oh no, just have an mild interest in the different types of worship and religions and how and why people believe in gods.

[Jah Lush]

> Have to say I disagree with you re. the Rolls

> Royces. I saw the said 'Guru' a couple of weeks

> ago in the NEC in Birmingham and one thing he

> happened to mention were the stories about all his

> cars which existed years ago i.e the 70's

> He went on to say that if he did have that number

> of cars he was supposed to have he wouldn't have

> chosen Rolls!

> As for the women, when he went to the Palace of

> Peace he would have been a teenager. He is now

> nearly 50. In the interests of honesty I don't

> believe he can be accused of being a charlatan

> either.

My word your gullible aren't you. You don't seriously believe all that crap do you.

I once went in the Palace of Peace with a friend of mine. We were very stoned and a couple of "disciples" came up to us and said "oh you're the chosen ones....come and have something to eat/drink....blah blah blah..." Silly f**king hippies.

Jah Rastafari

[shaman]

The are still active in ed saw promo video feel asleep in 5 mins

[Narnia]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > Have to say I disagree with you re. the Rolls

> > Royces. I saw the said 'Guru' a couple of weeks

> > ago in the NEC in Birmingham and one thing he

> > happened to mention were the stories about all

> his

> > cars which existed years ago i.e the 70's

> > He went on to say that if he did have that

> number

> > of cars he was supposed to have he wouldn't

> have

> > chosen Rolls!

> > As for the women, when he went to the Palace of

> > Peace he would have been a teenager. He is now

> > nearly 50. In the interests of honesty I don't

> > believe he can be accused of being a charlatan

> > either.

>

> My word your gullible aren't you. You don't

> seriously believe all that crap do you.

> I once went in the Palace of Peace with a friend

> of mine. We were very stoned and a couple of

> "disciples" came up to us and said "oh you're the

> chosen ones....come and have something to

> eat/drink....blah blah blah..." Silly f**king

> hippies.

> Jah Rastafari

You insult me for what exactly? You went somewhere once, very stoned and met some hippies? Thirty years later I'm gullible and believe in crap. Maybe I'm both but you sure as hell don't know. Talk to you when you grow up.

[Jah Lush]

Oh! but I do know Declan and you'll be waiting a long time. I may be growing older by I refuse to grow up.

[Asset]

now now boys, chill out. everyone's entitled to their opinions, being called gullible is not exactly an insult.

Personally think the Divine Light lot a load of twaddle. Anyone that keeps their so called "knowledge" a secret until they deem you are "ready", well - not very enlightened is it? Jesus handed his out to any one that would listen, as did Mohammed and Buddah.

[Mark]

> Jesus handed his [knowledge] out to any one that would listen, as did Mohammed and Buddah.

and so does the Flying Spaghetti Monster