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Monsigneur News TheatreMaida Vale Picture House
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Mayfair, Brick Lane

46 Brick Lane, E1 6RF

A relic on Brick Lane that's seen life as an Odeon and, usurpingly given the area, briefly a cinema that showed Indian films.

Liverpool Street

Area:East

Borough:Tower Hamlets

Monsigneur News TheatreMaida Vale Picture House
Mayfair, Brick Lane

Mayfair, Brick Lane

Area

East

Open

1936—Present

Borough

Tower Hamlets
Cinema opened: 1936
First film: Escapade
Orig. screens: 1
Orig. capacity: 1,500
Usage: Restaurant
Architect: Kemp & Tasker
Style: Art Deco
AKA: Odeon, Naz Cinema
Circuit: Independent (1936—1937)Eastern Cinemas (1937—1943)Odeon (1943—1967)

† approximate dates

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