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Mr Smith
03-07-2010, 04:33 AM
This site has been closed for quite some time now and has been sadly gutted. Entrances have been dramatically tightened up since the early days (which I sadly never saw), and the projectors have been taken, and the roof exits nailed shut. Still a few interesting views to be had, and have been in there on numerous occasions. It was recently an Odeon Cinema, but before that was a more traditional theatre (some of the machinery can still be seen).

This is the part that was the older theatre.
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In the central theatre there's a hole in the ground floor roof that allows you to see right up to the roof of the building, and a rope swing that some alternative soul installed.
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Main Auditorium downstairs
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This leads right up to the front, and main entrance
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Stairs Leading to other various bits
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One of the two sets of spiral staircases. One is much larger, but harder and muckier to reach.
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Nearby Birds Nest (sodding pigeons all over the joint)
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Not at all sure what this was or why the paper.
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This is still my favourite shot, it's not anything special from a UE perspective, but I just love it
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