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Genesis, Bethnal GreenGaumont State, Kilburn
Cinema

Gaumont, Haymarket

48 Haymarket, SW1Y 4SD

Little trace remains of what was one of the finest London cinemas built in the 1920s.

Piccadilly Circus

Area:Central

Borough:Westminster

Genesis, Bethnal GreenGaumont State, Kilburn

Gaumont, Haymarket

Area

Central

Open

1925-//-2000

Borough

Westminster
Cinema opened: 1925
First film: Miracle of the Wolves
Temp. closure: 1959—1962 † (Redevelopment)
Cinema closed: 2000 †
Orig. screens: 1
Orig. capacity: 1,550
Usage: Offices
Architect: Andrew MatherWilliam Edward Trent
Style: Art DecoNeo-Classical
AKA: Capitol
Circuit: Clavering Brothers (1925—1926)General Theatres Corporation (1926—1928)Gaumont British (1928—1941)Odeon (1941—1959)

† approximate dates

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28 July 1929

Britain takes on America’s ‘talking pictures’

Gaumont, Haymarket (1925 — 2000)

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Piccadilly Circus

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