Title

Gala Bingo Hall, 50-60 Mitcham Road, Tooting Graveney, Wandsworth, London, 1991-2013. Creator: Norman Walley.

Caption

Gala Bingo Hall, 50-60 Mitcham Road, Tooting Graveney, Wandsworth, London, 1991-2013. Two ante-proscenium bays in the auditorium of the Gala Bingo Hall, showing the decorated tympanum and painted panels of the central bay. The Granada Theatre opened in 1931. It closed in 1973 and reopened in 1976 as the Granada Bingo Club, later the Gala Bingo Club. The Granada Theatre is considered to be the most lavishly decorated cinema interior in Britain.

Date

1991

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A18_407

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57,8Mb (4,2Mb) / 12,1in x 18,5in / 3641 x 5552 (300dpi)

Keywords

leisure building London England interior panel panels architecture archway arch arches arts country playhouse entertainment game art theatre British English film color painted Granada cinema colonnade location century movie Art Deco Britain inside auditorium thirties interior design pastime bingo 21st century moving picture colonnades interior decoration Nineties Architectural Feature Colour cinematography Indoors 1930s 20th century 1990s 2000s Bingo Hall decade TGN Wandsworth Tooting photograph Listed Building tympanum Cecil Grade I 2010s Granada Theatre Theodore Historic England Norman Walley Walley Norman Gala Bingo Hall Cecil Masey Masey Theodore Komisarjevsky Komisarjevsky