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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54711478589/" title="Boldmere Clinic and Little Ripley Day Nursery - Boldmere Road, Boldmere"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54711478589_3bcb29bd32_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Boldmere Clinic and Little Ripley Day Nursery - Boldmere Road, Boldmere" /></a></p>

<p>Mainly went to Boldmere for the second time for the Bulls in the City trail.<br />
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Boldmere Clinic and Little Ripley Day Nursery - Boldmere Road, Boldmere</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54711455508/" title="St Nicholas RC Church - Jockey Road, Boldmere"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54711455508_2c1ec6b418_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="St Nicholas RC Church - Jockey Road, Boldmere" /></a></p>

<p>Mainly went to Boldmere for the second time for the Bulls in the City trail.<br />
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<br />
On Jockey Road before turning onto Boldmere Road.<br />
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St Nicholas RC Church<br />
<br />
Catholic Church of St. Nicholas<br />
<br />
Archdiocese of Birmingham</p>

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<p>Mainly went to Boldmere for the second time for the Bulls in the City trail.<br />
<br />
<br />
On Jockey Road before turning onto Boldmere Road.<br />
<br />
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St Nicholas RC Church<br />
<br />
Catholic Church of St. Nicholas<br />
<br />
Archdiocese of Birmingham</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54711237391/" title="Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield - red post box - VR - B73 1275"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54711237391_bd55970ca4_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield - red post box - VR - B73 1275" /></a></p>

<p>The walk along Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield towards Boldmere for the Bulls in the City trail.<br />
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Red post box - VR - B73 1275</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54711465979/" title="Royal Sutton Coldfield Club - Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54711465979_21619fdd8f_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Royal Sutton Coldfield Club - Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield" /></a></p>

<p>The walk along Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield towards Boldmere for the Bulls in the City trail.<br />
<br />
<br />
Royal Sutton Coldfield Club</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54710386207/" title="Vesey Manor - Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54710386207_dd4b5a3f8f_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Vesey Manor - Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield" /></a></p>

<p>On Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield.<br />
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<br />
Was on the walk to Boldmere for the Bulls in the City, so got this on the way there.<br />
<br />
<br />
Vesey Manor <br />
<br />
Thomas Coulborn & Sons - Antiques <br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II listed building<br />
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<a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075818" rel="noreferrer nofollow">62 and 64, Birmingham Road</a><br />
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Details<br />
1. 5104 BIRMINGHAM ROAD<br />
<br />
Nos 62 and 64 SP 19 NW 2/15 18.10.49.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
2. Circa 1530, with modern alterations. Sandstone, modern pantiled roof with red brick chimneystacks, 3 plain gables with finials. 2 storeys, 3 light wood casement windows, ground floor pair of 5 light C19 bay windows. Pair of adjacent stone porches, each with 4 centred arch, pentice lead roof.<br />
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Listing NGR: SP1184095404</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54710378872/" title="Farthing Lane, Sutton Coldfield - road sign"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54710378872_098481f7cb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Farthing Lane, Sutton Coldfield - road sign" /></a></p>

<p>Farthing Lane, Sutton Coldfield - road sign.<br />
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I got off the X5 bus near here before the walk to Boldmere.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54711517945/" title="Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54711517945_aa6126f430_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield" /></a></p>

<p>Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield.<br />
<br />
<br />
This was formerly the Empire Cinema until 2023, then became Royal Cinema from 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
Was on the walk to Boldmere for the Bulls in the City, so got this on the way there.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15012" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Cinemas</a><br />
<br />
The Odeon was built for and operated by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain, the 42nd to be built for the circuit. It was designed by Harry Weedon assisted by architect J. Cecil Clavering of the Harry Weeden Partnership.<br />
<br />
It opened on 18th April 1936 with Jessie Matthews in “First a Girl”. The cinema is located just outside the town centre on a prominent corner position of the main Birmingham Road at Maney Corner and Holland Road, Maney.<br />
<br />
Considered to be one of the best designed Odeon Theatre’s (Odeon Harrogate is an almost exact copy), the low corner entrance is dominated by a high ‘fin’ tower on the left which originally had the word ‘Cinema’ on top. Inside the auditorium seating was provided for 1,600; 1,028 in the stalls and 572 in the balcony. A sleek Art Deco style of decoration was within the auditorium that was illuminated by concealed lighting set into troughs across the ceiling.<br />
<br />
It was one of the first of the original Odeon’s to be tripled and became a three-screen cinema from 9th April 1972. The balcony was kept intact with a seating capacity slight increased to 591, while two mini cinemas were created in the rear stalls under the balcony which each seated 132. In 1987 a fourth screen seating 330 was added in the former front stalls area.<br />
<br />
The Odeon Sutton Coldfield was one of several Odeon Theatres taken over by the Irish-based Ward-Anderson Cinemas in March 2006. Trading under the Empire Cinemas UK name, it has been renamed the Empire. Seating capacities in the screens are now; 1. 592, 2. 135, 3. 100 and 4. 329. It was closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it briefly reopened only to close again in August 2020. In September 2021 the operators Empire Cinemas UK announced that it would remain closed for at least another 9-months while funds were obtained to carry out a refurbishment. On 6th July 2023 it was announced that Empire Cinemas UK had gone into administration and their plans to reopen the cinema had been cancelled.<br />
<br />
On 21st December 2023 it was announced that the vacant cinema had been purchased by PDJ Management Ltd. and would be renovated and restored to reopen as the Royal Cinemas. It reopened on 26th July, 2024. With a total seating capacity of 456-seats, Screen 1 in the former circle has just under 200-seats, screens 2 & 3 in the former rear stalls each have 44-seats and screen 4 in the former front stalls has 168-sofa seats.<br />
<br />
On 18th November 1998, the then Odeon Cinema was designated a Grade II Listed building.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II listed building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271848" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Odeon Cinema</a><br />
<br />
Details<br />
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2024 to amend the architect's name and text reformated to display correctly on NHLE.<br />
<br />
SP 19 NW 734/2/10027<br />
<br />
SUTTON COLDFIELD BIRMINGHAM ROAD (east side) Odeon Cinema<br />
<br />
GV II<br />
<br />
Cinema. 1935-6 by J Cecil Clavering of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brown brick with faience tiling to front facade, fin and staircase tower. Banded decoration to sides; flat roofs.<br />
<br />
Freestanding cinema on prominent corner site, originally having double-height foyer, staircase and double-height auditorium with balcony on naturally falling site, each defined as a separate block in a complex, carefully massed and expressionistic composition inspired by Schoffler, Shloenbach and Jacobi's Titania Palast, Berlin of 1928. Four double doors to entrance on curved corner, under projecting curved canopy. To left a tall advertising fin, now truncated, originally announcing `CINEMA'. To left again, large double-height foyer expressed by four tall metal windows each of two bays with square paned glazing. Smaller windows over emergency exit on curved corner and down sides, where faience tiling continues at ground floor level to final emergency door. Beyond is vertical brick ribbed decoration, with horizontal bands at cornice level. Horizontal brick banding on remaining elevations. The cinema is unusual in sustaining its interest through high quality brickwork on all elevations.<br />
<br />
INTERIOR: double-height foyer now has false ceiling, but original decoration survives above. The bottom of the principal staircase with low curved balustrades in Art Deco style, with brass rails. Auditorium now subdivided but original proscenium arch survives, as does front barrier to orchestra pit. Sidewall decoration of streamlined `go faster' mouldings serving ventilation grilles. Principal screen in former circle survives well, with original textured and moulded ceilings. Many doors and staircase mouldings characteristic of the Odeon house style.<br />
<br />
Odeon interiors were always simple and streamlined, for Oscar Deutsch adopted a deliberate policy of concentrating his finances on producing a spectacular exterior in a distinctive house idiom, with a comfortable and modern interior and excellent films. Sutton Coldfield was the first purpose-built Odeon in the mature house style derived from the Titania Palast; it spawned a number of imitations, at York, Harrogate and Scarborough, which are already listed. This style was first adopted by Clavering at the Beacon, Kingstanding, Birmingham, which was acquired by Oscar Deutsch in the course of construction, and led to Clavering and Weedon being commissioned to design three more Odeons, at Sutton Coldfield, Scarborough and Colwyn Bay (demolished). Clavering left to join the Civil Service, but Robert Bullivant copied his adopted idiom for Odeon thereafter. Sutton Coldfield is thus, historically, perhaps the most important single cinema in the development of the Odeon house style. Although it has lost the top of its central fin, it otherwise survives remarkably completely.<br />
<br />
SOURCES: Dennis Sharp, The Picture Palace, London, Hugh Evelyn, 1969, pp.138-135 David Atwell, Cathedrals of the Movies, London, Architectural Press, 1979, pp.147-8 Rosemary Clegg, Odeon, Amber Valley, 1985 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, London, Lund Humphries, 1996, pp.91-2<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP1190495435</p>

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<p>Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield.<br />
<br />
<br />
This was formerly the Empire Cinema until 2023, then became Royal Cinema from 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
Was on the walk to Boldmere for the Bulls in the City, so got this on the way there.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15012" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Cinemas</a><br />
<br />
The Odeon was built for and operated by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain, the 42nd to be built for the circuit. It was designed by Harry Weedon assisted by architect J. Cecil Clavering of the Harry Weeden Partnership.<br />
<br />
It opened on 18th April 1936 with Jessie Matthews in “First a Girl”. The cinema is located just outside the town centre on a prominent corner position of the main Birmingham Road at Maney Corner and Holland Road, Maney.<br />
<br />
Considered to be one of the best designed Odeon Theatre’s (Odeon Harrogate is an almost exact copy), the low corner entrance is dominated by a high ‘fin’ tower on the left which originally had the word ‘Cinema’ on top. Inside the auditorium seating was provided for 1,600; 1,028 in the stalls and 572 in the balcony. A sleek Art Deco style of decoration was within the auditorium that was illuminated by concealed lighting set into troughs across the ceiling.<br />
<br />
It was one of the first of the original Odeon’s to be tripled and became a three-screen cinema from 9th April 1972. The balcony was kept intact with a seating capacity slight increased to 591, while two mini cinemas were created in the rear stalls under the balcony which each seated 132. In 1987 a fourth screen seating 330 was added in the former front stalls area.<br />
<br />
The Odeon Sutton Coldfield was one of several Odeon Theatres taken over by the Irish-based Ward-Anderson Cinemas in March 2006. Trading under the Empire Cinemas UK name, it has been renamed the Empire. Seating capacities in the screens are now; 1. 592, 2. 135, 3. 100 and 4. 329. It was closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it briefly reopened only to close again in August 2020. In September 2021 the operators Empire Cinemas UK announced that it would remain closed for at least another 9-months while funds were obtained to carry out a refurbishment. On 6th July 2023 it was announced that Empire Cinemas UK had gone into administration and their plans to reopen the cinema had been cancelled.<br />
<br />
On 21st December 2023 it was announced that the vacant cinema had been purchased by PDJ Management Ltd. and would be renovated and restored to reopen as the Royal Cinemas. It reopened on 26th July, 2024. With a total seating capacity of 456-seats, Screen 1 in the former circle has just under 200-seats, screens 2 & 3 in the former rear stalls each have 44-seats and screen 4 in the former front stalls has 168-sofa seats.<br />
<br />
On 18th November 1998, the then Odeon Cinema was designated a Grade II Listed building.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II listed building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271848" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Odeon Cinema</a><br />
<br />
Details<br />
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2024 to amend the architect's name and text reformated to display correctly on NHLE.<br />
<br />
SP 19 NW 734/2/10027<br />
<br />
SUTTON COLDFIELD BIRMINGHAM ROAD (east side) Odeon Cinema<br />
<br />
GV II<br />
<br />
Cinema. 1935-6 by J Cecil Clavering of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brown brick with faience tiling to front facade, fin and staircase tower. Banded decoration to sides; flat roofs.<br />
<br />
Freestanding cinema on prominent corner site, originally having double-height foyer, staircase and double-height auditorium with balcony on naturally falling site, each defined as a separate block in a complex, carefully massed and expressionistic composition inspired by Schoffler, Shloenbach and Jacobi's Titania Palast, Berlin of 1928. Four double doors to entrance on curved corner, under projecting curved canopy. To left a tall advertising fin, now truncated, originally announcing `CINEMA'. To left again, large double-height foyer expressed by four tall metal windows each of two bays with square paned glazing. Smaller windows over emergency exit on curved corner and down sides, where faience tiling continues at ground floor level to final emergency door. Beyond is vertical brick ribbed decoration, with horizontal bands at cornice level. Horizontal brick banding on remaining elevations. The cinema is unusual in sustaining its interest through high quality brickwork on all elevations.<br />
<br />
INTERIOR: double-height foyer now has false ceiling, but original decoration survives above. The bottom of the principal staircase with low curved balustrades in Art Deco style, with brass rails. Auditorium now subdivided but original proscenium arch survives, as does front barrier to orchestra pit. Sidewall decoration of streamlined `go faster' mouldings serving ventilation grilles. Principal screen in former circle survives well, with original textured and moulded ceilings. Many doors and staircase mouldings characteristic of the Odeon house style.<br />
<br />
Odeon interiors were always simple and streamlined, for Oscar Deutsch adopted a deliberate policy of concentrating his finances on producing a spectacular exterior in a distinctive house idiom, with a comfortable and modern interior and excellent films. Sutton Coldfield was the first purpose-built Odeon in the mature house style derived from the Titania Palast; it spawned a number of imitations, at York, Harrogate and Scarborough, which are already listed. This style was first adopted by Clavering at the Beacon, Kingstanding, Birmingham, which was acquired by Oscar Deutsch in the course of construction, and led to Clavering and Weedon being commissioned to design three more Odeons, at Sutton Coldfield, Scarborough and Colwyn Bay (demolished). Clavering left to join the Civil Service, but Robert Bullivant copied his adopted idiom for Odeon thereafter. Sutton Coldfield is thus, historically, perhaps the most important single cinema in the development of the Odeon house style. Although it has lost the top of its central fin, it otherwise survives remarkably completely.<br />
<br />
SOURCES: Dennis Sharp, The Picture Palace, London, Hugh Evelyn, 1969, pp.138-135 David Atwell, Cathedrals of the Movies, London, Architectural Press, 1979, pp.147-8 Rosemary Clegg, Odeon, Amber Valley, 1985 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, London, Lund Humphries, 1996, pp.91-2<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP1190495435</p>

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<p>Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield.<br />
<br />
<br />
This was formerly the Empire Cinema until 2023, then became Royal Cinema from 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
Was on the walk to Boldmere for the Bulls in the City, so got this on the way there.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15012" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Cinemas</a><br />
<br />
The Odeon was built for and operated by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain, the 42nd to be built for the circuit. It was designed by Harry Weedon assisted by architect J. Cecil Clavering of the Harry Weeden Partnership.<br />
<br />
It opened on 18th April 1936 with Jessie Matthews in “First a Girl”. The cinema is located just outside the town centre on a prominent corner position of the main Birmingham Road at Maney Corner and Holland Road, Maney.<br />
<br />
Considered to be one of the best designed Odeon Theatre’s (Odeon Harrogate is an almost exact copy), the low corner entrance is dominated by a high ‘fin’ tower on the left which originally had the word ‘Cinema’ on top. Inside the auditorium seating was provided for 1,600; 1,028 in the stalls and 572 in the balcony. A sleek Art Deco style of decoration was within the auditorium that was illuminated by concealed lighting set into troughs across the ceiling.<br />
<br />
It was one of the first of the original Odeon’s to be tripled and became a three-screen cinema from 9th April 1972. The balcony was kept intact with a seating capacity slight increased to 591, while two mini cinemas were created in the rear stalls under the balcony which each seated 132. In 1987 a fourth screen seating 330 was added in the former front stalls area.<br />
<br />
The Odeon Sutton Coldfield was one of several Odeon Theatres taken over by the Irish-based Ward-Anderson Cinemas in March 2006. Trading under the Empire Cinemas UK name, it has been renamed the Empire. Seating capacities in the screens are now; 1. 592, 2. 135, 3. 100 and 4. 329. It was closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it briefly reopened only to close again in August 2020. In September 2021 the operators Empire Cinemas UK announced that it would remain closed for at least another 9-months while funds were obtained to carry out a refurbishment. On 6th July 2023 it was announced that Empire Cinemas UK had gone into administration and their plans to reopen the cinema had been cancelled.<br />
<br />
On 21st December 2023 it was announced that the vacant cinema had been purchased by PDJ Management Ltd. and would be renovated and restored to reopen as the Royal Cinemas. It reopened on 26th July, 2024. With a total seating capacity of 456-seats, Screen 1 in the former circle has just under 200-seats, screens 2 & 3 in the former rear stalls each have 44-seats and screen 4 in the former front stalls has 168-sofa seats.<br />
<br />
On 18th November 1998, the then Odeon Cinema was designated a Grade II Listed building.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II listed building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271848" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Odeon Cinema</a><br />
<br />
Details<br />
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2024 to amend the architect's name and text reformated to display correctly on NHLE.<br />
<br />
SP 19 NW 734/2/10027<br />
<br />
SUTTON COLDFIELD BIRMINGHAM ROAD (east side) Odeon Cinema<br />
<br />
GV II<br />
<br />
Cinema. 1935-6 by J Cecil Clavering of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brown brick with faience tiling to front facade, fin and staircase tower. Banded decoration to sides; flat roofs.<br />
<br />
Freestanding cinema on prominent corner site, originally having double-height foyer, staircase and double-height auditorium with balcony on naturally falling site, each defined as a separate block in a complex, carefully massed and expressionistic composition inspired by Schoffler, Shloenbach and Jacobi's Titania Palast, Berlin of 1928. Four double doors to entrance on curved corner, under projecting curved canopy. To left a tall advertising fin, now truncated, originally announcing `CINEMA'. To left again, large double-height foyer expressed by four tall metal windows each of two bays with square paned glazing. Smaller windows over emergency exit on curved corner and down sides, where faience tiling continues at ground floor level to final emergency door. Beyond is vertical brick ribbed decoration, with horizontal bands at cornice level. Horizontal brick banding on remaining elevations. The cinema is unusual in sustaining its interest through high quality brickwork on all elevations.<br />
<br />
INTERIOR: double-height foyer now has false ceiling, but original decoration survives above. The bottom of the principal staircase with low curved balustrades in Art Deco style, with brass rails. Auditorium now subdivided but original proscenium arch survives, as does front barrier to orchestra pit. Sidewall decoration of streamlined `go faster' mouldings serving ventilation grilles. Principal screen in former circle survives well, with original textured and moulded ceilings. Many doors and staircase mouldings characteristic of the Odeon house style.<br />
<br />
Odeon interiors were always simple and streamlined, for Oscar Deutsch adopted a deliberate policy of concentrating his finances on producing a spectacular exterior in a distinctive house idiom, with a comfortable and modern interior and excellent films. Sutton Coldfield was the first purpose-built Odeon in the mature house style derived from the Titania Palast; it spawned a number of imitations, at York, Harrogate and Scarborough, which are already listed. This style was first adopted by Clavering at the Beacon, Kingstanding, Birmingham, which was acquired by Oscar Deutsch in the course of construction, and led to Clavering and Weedon being commissioned to design three more Odeons, at Sutton Coldfield, Scarborough and Colwyn Bay (demolished). Clavering left to join the Civil Service, but Robert Bullivant copied his adopted idiom for Odeon thereafter. Sutton Coldfield is thus, historically, perhaps the most important single cinema in the development of the Odeon house style. Although it has lost the top of its central fin, it otherwise survives remarkably completely.<br />
<br />
SOURCES: Dennis Sharp, The Picture Palace, London, Hugh Evelyn, 1969, pp.138-135 David Atwell, Cathedrals of the Movies, London, Architectural Press, 1979, pp.147-8 Rosemary Clegg, Odeon, Amber Valley, 1985 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, London, Lund Humphries, 1996, pp.91-2<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP1190495435</p>

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<p>Royal Cinema Sutton Coldfield.<br />
<br />
<br />
This was formerly the Empire Cinema until 2023, then became Royal Cinema from 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
Was on the walk to Boldmere for the Bulls in the City, so got this on the way there.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/15012" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Cinemas</a><br />
<br />
The Odeon was built for and operated by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain, the 42nd to be built for the circuit. It was designed by Harry Weedon assisted by architect J. Cecil Clavering of the Harry Weeden Partnership.<br />
<br />
It opened on 18th April 1936 with Jessie Matthews in “First a Girl”. The cinema is located just outside the town centre on a prominent corner position of the main Birmingham Road at Maney Corner and Holland Road, Maney.<br />
<br />
Considered to be one of the best designed Odeon Theatre’s (Odeon Harrogate is an almost exact copy), the low corner entrance is dominated by a high ‘fin’ tower on the left which originally had the word ‘Cinema’ on top. Inside the auditorium seating was provided for 1,600; 1,028 in the stalls and 572 in the balcony. A sleek Art Deco style of decoration was within the auditorium that was illuminated by concealed lighting set into troughs across the ceiling.<br />
<br />
It was one of the first of the original Odeon’s to be tripled and became a three-screen cinema from 9th April 1972. The balcony was kept intact with a seating capacity slight increased to 591, while two mini cinemas were created in the rear stalls under the balcony which each seated 132. In 1987 a fourth screen seating 330 was added in the former front stalls area.<br />
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The Odeon Sutton Coldfield was one of several Odeon Theatres taken over by the Irish-based Ward-Anderson Cinemas in March 2006. Trading under the Empire Cinemas UK name, it has been renamed the Empire. Seating capacities in the screens are now; 1. 592, 2. 135, 3. 100 and 4. 329. It was closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it briefly reopened only to close again in August 2020. In September 2021 the operators Empire Cinemas UK announced that it would remain closed for at least another 9-months while funds were obtained to carry out a refurbishment. On 6th July 2023 it was announced that Empire Cinemas UK had gone into administration and their plans to reopen the cinema had been cancelled.<br />
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On 21st December 2023 it was announced that the vacant cinema had been purchased by PDJ Management Ltd. and would be renovated and restored to reopen as the Royal Cinemas. It reopened on 26th July, 2024. With a total seating capacity of 456-seats, Screen 1 in the former circle has just under 200-seats, screens 2 & 3 in the former rear stalls each have 44-seats and screen 4 in the former front stalls has 168-sofa seats.<br />
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On 18th November 1998, the then Odeon Cinema was designated a Grade II Listed building.<br />
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<a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271848" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Odeon Cinema</a><br />
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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2024 to amend the architect's name and text reformated to display correctly on NHLE.<br />
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SP 19 NW 734/2/10027<br />
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SUTTON COLDFIELD BIRMINGHAM ROAD (east side) Odeon Cinema<br />
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GV II<br />
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Cinema. 1935-6 by J Cecil Clavering of Harry Weedon and Partners for Oscar Deutsch and the Odeon group of companies. Steel frame clad in brown brick with faience tiling to front facade, fin and staircase tower. Banded decoration to sides; flat roofs.<br />
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Freestanding cinema on prominent corner site, originally having double-height foyer, staircase and double-height auditorium with balcony on naturally falling site, each defined as a separate block in a complex, carefully massed and expressionistic composition inspired by Schoffler, Shloenbach and Jacobi's Titania Palast, Berlin of 1928. Four double doors to entrance on curved corner, under projecting curved canopy. To left a tall advertising fin, now truncated, originally announcing `CINEMA'. To left again, large double-height foyer expressed by four tall metal windows each of two bays with square paned glazing. Smaller windows over emergency exit on curved corner and down sides, where faience tiling continues at ground floor level to final emergency door. Beyond is vertical brick ribbed decoration, with horizontal bands at cornice level. Horizontal brick banding on remaining elevations. The cinema is unusual in sustaining its interest through high quality brickwork on all elevations.<br />
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INTERIOR: double-height foyer now has false ceiling, but original decoration survives above. The bottom of the principal staircase with low curved balustrades in Art Deco style, with brass rails. Auditorium now subdivided but original proscenium arch survives, as does front barrier to orchestra pit. Sidewall decoration of streamlined `go faster' mouldings serving ventilation grilles. Principal screen in former circle survives well, with original textured and moulded ceilings. Many doors and staircase mouldings characteristic of the Odeon house style.<br />
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Odeon interiors were always simple and streamlined, for Oscar Deutsch adopted a deliberate policy of concentrating his finances on producing a spectacular exterior in a distinctive house idiom, with a comfortable and modern interior and excellent films. Sutton Coldfield was the first purpose-built Odeon in the mature house style derived from the Titania Palast; it spawned a number of imitations, at York, Harrogate and Scarborough, which are already listed. This style was first adopted by Clavering at the Beacon, Kingstanding, Birmingham, which was acquired by Oscar Deutsch in the course of construction, and led to Clavering and Weedon being commissioned to design three more Odeons, at Sutton Coldfield, Scarborough and Colwyn Bay (demolished). Clavering left to join the Civil Service, but Robert Bullivant copied his adopted idiom for Odeon thereafter. Sutton Coldfield is thus, historically, perhaps the most important single cinema in the development of the Odeon house style. Although it has lost the top of its central fin, it otherwise survives remarkably completely.<br />
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SOURCES: Dennis Sharp, The Picture Palace, London, Hugh Evelyn, 1969, pp.138-135 David Atwell, Cathedrals of the Movies, London, Architectural Press, 1979, pp.147-8 Rosemary Clegg, Odeon, Amber Valley, 1985 Richard Gray, Cinemas in Britain, London, Lund Humphries, 1996, pp.91-2<br />
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Listing NGR: SP1190495435</p>

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<p>Floral display at Vesey Gardens in Sutton Coldfield.<br />
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Seen from the X5 bus I got from Mere Green to Sutton Coldfield.<br />
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I was getting the Bulls in the City.<br />
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There was none in Sutton Coldfield Town Centre.</p>

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Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 Para triathlon and Triathlon sign <br />
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<p>After getting some of the Bulls in the City in Boldmere, next I walked to Wylde Green Station at the Station Road entrance to get the train back to Birmingham New Street.<br />
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Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 Para triathlon and Triathlon sign <br />
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