Area: Central

One of the aims of Memory Palaces is to demonstrate the staggering number of cinemas there have been in every corner of London – no neighbourhood has been without one at some point in the last 100 years!

To help navigate this breadth I’ve divided London into nine areas so you can explore the cinemas in the places that most interest you.

Odeon Luxe Haymarket 1
Odeon Luxe Haymarket 1

Westminster — Central

Odeon Luxe Haymarket

11-18 Panton Street, SW1Y 4DP

1969—

Leicester Square

Odeon, Covent Garden 11

Westminster — Central

Odeon, Covent Garden

135 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8AH

1970—2024

Leicester Square

Odeon, Leicester Square 1

Westminster — Central

Odeon, Leicester Square

22-24 Leicester Square, WC2H 7LQ

1937—

Leicester Square

Picturehouse Central 1

Westminster — Central

Picturehouse Central

Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7DH

1991—

Piccadilly Circus

Vue, Piccadilly 5

Westminster — Central

Plaza, Piccadilly

19 Lower Regent Street, SW1Y 4LR

1926—

Piccadilly Circus

Prince Charles Cinema 1

Westminster — Central

Prince Charles Cinema

7 Leicester Place, WC2 7BY

1965—

Leicester Square

Prince Edward Theatre 7

Westminster — Central

Prince Edward Theatre

30 Old Compton Street, W1D 4HS

1930—1978

Tottenham Court Road

Pyke's Cinematograph Theatre, Cambridge Circus 7

Westminster — Central

Pyke’s Cinematograph Theatre, Cambridge Circus

105-107 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0BP

1911—1987

Tottenham Court Road

Regent Street Cinema 1

Westminster — Central

Regent Street Cinema

307 Regent Street, W1B 2UW

1912—

Oxford Circus

Rialto, Piccadilly Circus

Westminster — Central

Rialto, Piccadilly Circus

3-4 Coventry Street, W1D 6BL

1913—1982

Piccadilly Circus

Scala cinema

Camden — Central

Scala, King’s Cross

275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL

1920—1993

King's Cross

Studio One, Oxford Street 1

Westminster — Central

Studio One, Oxford Street

225 Oxford Street, W1D 2LR

1910—1984

Oxford Circus