Beckenham Cinema Fire.

[Hrolf The Ganger]

I took my missus to see our first movie there. I think it was Tango and Cash or maybe Dead Calm. I have been there many times over the years.

I was only saying the other day that you see parts of your life getting erased in your lifetime. This could be another example.

I wonder if this is another 'accident' which will allow a new block of flats to be built.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Plenty of old buildings catch fire when they are nearing the end of viability, or are empty. And that's in spite of all the likely asbestos in some of the older ones. 😀
Fires appear to be quite timely for some developers, with hooligan kids normally doing a good job.

I saddens me a bit when buildings are demolished and something else put there. A few houses I've lived at are now replaced with blocks of flats. Shops and pubs also close and it's a little bit of your past been wiped. 😢😢 Almost like that part of your life never happened. You were never there.

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

Plenty of old buildings catch fire when they are nearing the end of viability, or are empty. And that's in spite of all the likely asbestos in some of the older ones. 😀
Fires appear to be quite timely for some developers, with hooligan kids normally doing a good job.

I saddens me a bit when buildings are demolished and something else put there. A few houses I've lived at are now replaced with blocks of flats. Shops and pubs also close and it's a little bit of your past been wiped. 😢😢 Almost like that part of your life never happened. You were never there.

Indeed. People, buildings and communities disappear, and it feels like your life history increasingly exists only in your own degrading memory.

 

[Willo]

Plenty of old buildings catch fire when they are nearing the end of viability, or are empty. And that's in spite of all the likely asbestos in some of the older ones. 😀
Fires appear to be quite timely for some developers, with hooligan kids normally doing a good job.

I saddens me a bit when buildings are demolished and something else put there. A few houses I've lived at are now replaced with blocks of flats. Shops and pubs also close and it's a little bit of your past been wiped. 😢😢 Almost like that part of your life never happened. You were never there.

In my 'Neck of the words' there are lavish Private Estates where properties worth in excess of £1 Mill have been purchased and demolished, replaced by salubrious dwellings worth much more than the purchase price of the ones that were razed to the ground.

 

[Apollofuzz]

I took my missus to see our first movie there. I think it was Tango and Cash or maybe Dead Calm. I have been there many times over the years.

I was only saying the other day that you see parts of your life getting erased in your lifetime. This could be another example.

I wonder if this is another 'accident' which will allow a new block of flats to be built.

Mum and Dad went to Frank a Peggy Spencer's dance classes next door early 60's. I Saw my first ever Cinema Film there "Dougal and the Blue Cat" about 1971. Seen many a film there since. Anyone remember the old lady that used to sit on the steps with her pram selling papers?

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

Mum and Dad went to Frank a Peggy Spencer's dance classes next door early 60's. I Saw my first ever Cinema Film there "Dougal and the Blue Cat" about 1971. Seen many a film there since. Anyone remember the old lady that used to sit on the steps with her pram selling papers?

Yep. She was there for years.

 

[esox lucius]

I took my missus to see our first movie there. I think it was Tango and Cash or maybe Dead Calm. I have been there many times over the years.

I was only saying the other day that you see parts of your life getting erased in your lifetime. This could be another example.

I wonder if this is another 'accident' which will allow a new block of flats to be built.

Me too, took my now wife there on our first date. Eddie Murphy in Trading Places

 

[PalazioVecchio]

my enduring memory of that place was a failed Air-Conditioner and it being as hot as hell.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

I took my missus to see our first movie there. I think it was Tango and Cash or maybe Dead Calm. I have been there many times over the years.

I was only saying the other day that you see parts of your life getting erased in your lifetime. This could be another example.

I wonder if this is another 'accident' which will allow a new block of flats to be built.

Yes we went there a few times when we lived in South Norwood, I’ve got a feeling when the women wanted us out of it one night, I’m sure me, the father and brother in law went to see Tango and Cash there as well
I grew up in Bromley and as you say much of our youth is gradually being erased now, I hardly recognise the place now

 

[doi209]

Went with my wife on our second date to see 'Boys from Brazil' in 1979. She paid. I proposed 7 weeks later and we have been married 45 years.

 

[Willo]

I visited the 'Odeon' to see 'Gandhi' in the early 80s,with my current wife, then my girlfriend, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in 1982.
We might have visited 'Dizzy's Diner' just around the corner from the cinema.

 

[NEILLO]

I believe it was the dodgy former kebab place, Kebab Ye, that caught fire.

My local mates reckon on it being an insurance job.

As for The Odeon, many fond memories, used to be just the one very big room.

Saw ' The Devils ', Ken Russell film with Ollie Reed there and I remember it being packed out.

 

[chris123]

I believe it was the dodgy former kebab place, Kebab Ye, that caught fire.

My local mates reckon on it being an insurance job.

As for The Odeon, many fond memories, used to be just the one very big room.

Saw ' The Devils ', Ken Russell film with Ollie Reed there and I remember it being packed out.

Didn't use the cinema, but used to play at Beckenham Place golf course which I didn't realise had closed.

 

[Superwag]

Used to go there frequently when it was The Regal Cinema. Took dance lessons in The Court School of Dancing in the room above in the early 60’s.

 

[Jameston88]

Used to go there frequently when it was The Regal Cinema. Took dance lessons in The Court School of Dancing in the room above in the early 60’s.

Me too. Also when I was younger went to Saturday morning pictures there too.
That was in the days when there was an Odeon in Penge.

 

[Ollie's Dad Ash.]

I also used to frequent when it was the ABC with my kids and my Wife before we were married. I also used to maintain/upholster the seats as ABC and installed the new seats when it rebranded to Odeon. Had many a great time there both socially and for work. Ollie's Dad,Ash.

 

[Badger11]

I have tickets for a weeks time, not sure what will happen.

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

I have tickets for a weeks time, not sure what will happen.

The Cinema might have been saved. I think the food place next door was the seat of the fire.

 

[georgenorman]

I believe it was the dodgy former kebab place, Kebab Ye, that caught fire.

My local mates reckon on it being an insurance job.

As for The Odeon, many fond memories, used to be just the one very big room.

Saw ' The Devils ', Ken Russell film with Ollie Reed there and I remember it being packed out.

The Devils was a truly awful film - the Music Lovers was great though.

 

[georgenorman]

I have tickets for a weeks time, not sure what will happen.

What was on - Towering Inferno?