Title

Focus Cinema, Delamere Street, Crewe, Cheshire East, 1975-1983. Creator: Norman Walley.

Caption

Focus Cinema, Delamere Street, Crewe, Cheshire East, 1975-1983. An exterior view of the Focus Cinema at dusk, showing the illuminated billboard. The building was designed as the Odeon Cinema by Budge Reid of Harry W Weedon's practice, and was opened in July 1937. The cinema was taken over by Brent Walker in October 1975 and was renamed the Focus Cinema. It was closed in May 1983 and was demolished in September 1983.

Date

1975

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21B21_037

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59,0Mb (2,6Mb) / 12,2in x 18,7in / 3672 x 5613 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation exterior outdoors building England car cars automobile architecture billboard country entertainment evening dusk British English color twilight illumination cinema location century illuminated Britain illuminate thirties illuminations time of day cheshire seventies lit Up road Transport Eighties Colour 1970s Motor Car 1980s 1930s 20th century decade TGN Crewe outside street photograph Reid Harry Weedon Weedon Harry W Weedon Harry Historic England Norman Walley Walley Norman Delamere Street Focus Cinema Budge Reid Budge