Towers, 31 High Street, Hornchurch, Borough of Havering, London RM11, 2016 • Hard to believe, but this stunning 1935 ex-cinema is due for demolition. Lidl, who plan to replace it with a supermarket, say they’ll keep the lettering as an “artwork”.
Towers, 31 High Street, Hornchurch, Borough of Havering, London RM11, 2016 • Hard to believe, but this stunning 1935 ex-cinema is due for demolition. Lidl, who plan to replace it with a supermarket, say they’ll keep the lettering as an “artwork”.
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Well that’s jolly good of them! Lidl are confirmed serial killers of interwar cinemas. A curse on them.
This should be listed. How did they get permission to demolish this?
We’re so used to looking either down at the ground or at eye-level, that we miss all the really interesting details/architecture etc that you see when you look up!