Andrew Simpson

Now it would be a full 28 years after the Well Odeon was open that I first saw a film there. And of course I have no idea what the film...

This is the Eltham Cinema and was on the corner of the High Street and Westmount Road. Eltham Cinema, circa 1913 It was opened in 191...

Now  I am revisiting Saturday morning pictures and in particular the Odeon at Well Hall . And as ever the memories came flooding back w...

Now on a dismal Saturday afternoon in Eltham during the winter of 1913 I might well have decided to take myself off to the Picturedrome whe...

Now, there has been a lot of talk recently about the cinemas of Eltham. And like pubs on the High Street people have started championin...

Now a while ago I set down a challenge to find some of our lost cinemas , and quick as a flash Tricia came back with a first and the promi...

So Eltham has its own cinema   again. For any one who can remember the Well Hall Odeon, the ABC on the high Street and the Gaumont this...

Now this picture postcard of the old ABC cinema in the High Street has a lot going for it. For a start there is that simple observation...

You never quite forget that mix of noise and anticipation which was Saturday Morning Pictures. It started when the manager asked if eve...

Who remembers the ABC in Eltham? I thought I did, and was more or less certain it was where Pamela and I went for our first and only da...

Now here is a building that just passed me by. Eltham Cinema, 1913-1968 It is the Eltham Cinema and was on the corner of the High Str...

It will be something well over half a century since I last walked down Kender Street and even now it’s the smell of cocoa which is the firs...

The top deck of a London bus has to be a pretty neat way of seeing the world below. Almost finished, 2018 And when it is the same bus...

Now I like the way you start off on a story and end up discovering all sorts of things you never knew. The Brockley Barge, 2008 So in...

The Well Hall Odeon in 1936 It is 80 years since the Well Hall Odeon opened and maybe 48 years since I last saw a film there. And for...

Now I am back with the Ideal Cinema which stood on Queens Road midway between Pomeroy Street and Kender Street. The Ideal Cinema 1914-1...

The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* Saturday Morning Badge ...