Building    From 1890 

Biograph Theatre

Categories: Cinema, Theatre

Building

Designed by architect Keith D. Young, for light entertainment and music hall, and named the Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms. In 1900, it was re-named Wandsworth Palace of Varieties, and showed animated pictures. In 1908, it was taken over by the Biograph Theatres Circuit, and converted into a picture palace. In June 1911, it was re-named the Picture Palladium, and then the Court Cinema in 1916.

London Post Code Walks gives: "It closed in 1931. The building was later used mainly as a warehouse – after the war, Young’s Brewery used it to store beer crates."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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