Contributions of the group Art Deco

Super Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:54:04 +0000

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The Longford Super Cinema at Stretford opened on 12th October 1936. The art deco design was by architect Harry Elder. The 2,000 seat cinema closed in 1965 and was subsequently used as a bingo hall and club.It has been disused since 1995 and awaits a new use. It is listed Grade II.

Campion Chambers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:48:29 +0000

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Campion Chambers, 23-25 St Nicholas Place, Leicester features cream terracotta and a nice art deco font. I guess it dates from the 1920s. The replacement windows don't help and I have cut off the garish subway frontage on the ground floor level.

Thunderbird

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:41:08 +0000

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After hauling exhibits to the Greatest Gathering event at Derby during the week, Saturday saw 37 901 'Mirrlees Pioneer' on Thunderbird duties at Manchester Piccadilly. The immaculate locomotive, complete with EPR headboard, was in the bay off the end of platform 1 providing cover for failures on the Styal line during the blockade at Stockport for the replacement of a bridge.

Warner Gothard Building

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:50:34 +0000

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Barnsley has a lot of art deco architecture in the central area including this block of offices and shops at the corner of Eldon Street and Regent Street South. It was built in 1927 for photographer Warner Gothard whose initials can be seen above the first floor window at the corner. Above the ground floor it is faced in cream terracotta.

Clock

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 06:47:23 +0000

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This art-deco clock is to be seen on the face of the Memorial Hall in Wirksworth. The hall was opened in April 1935 as the Cavendish Cafe and Dance Hall alongside a the new cinema. I am unable to say whether the clock is contemporary with the opening of the building, but it certainly looks the part.

Caister Road bus depot

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:45:17 +0000

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The Great Yarmouth bus depot was built for trams by Boulton and Paul of Norwich and was opened in 1898. It was severely damaged by bombing during WWII and reconstructed by 1947 apart from the façade, in an art-deco style with panels showing transport through the ages, which was constructed by F. R. Hipperson and Son Ltd in 1948.

Clock on the Seacombe Ferry Terminal

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:23:28 +0000

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This grade II listed building was designed by the Borough Surveyor, Lionel St. George Wilkinson and constructed between 1930 and 1933. It was a ferry and omnibus (horse-drawn bus) terminus. It is also important as the first commercial shore-based Radar station in the world for the navigation of ships. The radar station was installed in 1947.

The Clock Garage

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:45:20 +0000

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This 1930s art deco garage stands adjacent to a five-way roundabout in Woodville, Leicestershire. The structure showing to the left of the facia is the top of an old pottery kiln.

Walker's Buildings

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:21:39 +0000

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Walker's Buildings, Sunderland. Built in 1926 for Walkers the Jewellers on the corner of High Street West and Bridge Street. All clad with cream terracotta.

1927

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:59:25 +0000

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Tools of the trade depicted on the date panel of the former Miners' Welfare building at Methil, Fife. The building is now used as part of a Community Learning Centre although it appears that the snooker hall is still open.

For Sale

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:35:42 +0000

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Standing on the corner of Royal Parade and North Street in the centre of Belfast the former Bank of Ireland Building is one of the finest Modernist buildings in Ireland. It was was constructed during 1929 and 1930 to designs by Joseph Vincent Downes. The exterior is Portland limestone and the building is listed grade B+ which is the equivalent of II* on the British mainland. As of 2023 the buillding remains empty.

Miners' Welfare

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:19:59 +0000

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The former Miners' Welfare building at Methil, Fife, is now used as part of a Community Learning Centre although it appears that the snooker hall is still open. It was built in 1927.

Marsden, Harcombe & Company Limited

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 27 May 2022 07:47:07 +0000

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The art deco entrance to the former factory of Marsden, Harcombe & Company Limited which manufactured mattresses and Nulux spring interior bedding in particular. The building was later used as the Greater Manchester Records Office until this function was moved to the Central Library.

clocktower

nobody@ipernity.com (Wierd Folkersma) — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:17:41 +0000

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CWP: "TIC TAC"

the clocktower of the central railway station in Helsinki

Taxi

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:14:00 +0000

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This art deco style building is all that remains of the facilities provided at the Lancashire United Transport bus station in Leigh. The bus company and bus station may have disappeared but at least the building is still providing a transport function.

Regent Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:59:15 +0000

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Redcar's Regent Cinema opened as a music hall, the Pavilion, in 1928, and was where Larry Grayson, performing under stage name Billy Breen, coined his "shut that door" catchphrase.

It closed in 2018 due to structural damage to the building and was demolished in November 2020. A new cinema is under construction on this seafront site. The new three screen cinema is expected to open in spring 2022.

1930's drinking

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:59:25 +0000

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The Punch Bowl, 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, was designed by architects Wilcockson and Cutts. This 1931 rebuild of an earlier pub was undertaken for by the Chesterfield Brewery Company which was soon after taken over by Mansfield Brewery. The frontage retains the Chesterfield Brewery Co emblem and lots of coloured glass whilst the date is shown on the rainheads.

The George

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:57:18 +0000

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This pub on the corner of Wellington Road North and Heaton Lane in Stockport was once an inter-war gem. Built in a subdued art deco style for the Liverpool brewers Higsons it was their only pub in the Manchester area. It was a popular and busy place for many years but after Higsons were taken over by Boddingtons the original interior was ripped out - remade remodelled, in the deeply unattractive, anti-vernacular, sub-disco style de jour. After that it was downhill all the way and after a number of rebrandings it closed in 2010. Reopened in 2012 it struggled on until 2018 and the tin curtains have been up since then.

Punch bowl

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:23:44 +0000

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The Punch Bowl, 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, designed by architects Wilcockson and Cutts. The pub was rebuilt in 1931 by the Chesterfield Brewery Company which was soon after taken over by Mansfield Brewery. The Punch-in-a-bowl in the window over the door was the trade mark of T P Wood, wine and spirit merchant, whose business was taken over by Chesterfield Brewery.

Chrysler Building - 1986

nobody@ipernity.com (Berny) — Tue, 11 May 2021 09:29:31 +0000

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The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper with 319 m height (top of spire). It is still the tallest brick building in the world, albeit with an internal steel skeleton., completed 1930, 77 floors. It was the tallest building in the world only for 11 months, from 1930 to 1931. - scanned slide, Minolta X700