Odeon Cinema, Parsons Hill, Woolwich, London, October 1937. Reference no: BB87/03661. Copyright English Heritage. NMR.
The National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage, holds a wide range of collections covering the built and archaeological landscape from the prehistoric period to the cold war. Photographs form the largest part of our holdings and a number of these feature cinemas. The most important group is a collection of 1200 photographs taken by John Maltby of Odeon cinemas in England between 1935 and 1939. Together they form a remarkable visual record of the interior and exterior design of this chain of cinemas, which formed such a part of the everyday experience of people from that time. All of these images can be viewed via the Viewfinder database.
