DECLINE & DECAY: Unused Buildings In Colchester
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A video about the unused buildings, remains and history of some of Colchester's oldest areas. I decided to focus on the Priory Walk/Queen's Street area where the Keddies's store (abandoned since 2006) was recently demolished, as well as a cinema in Crouch Street that's been abandoned since 2002 and Jumbo, a Victorian Water Tower left unused since 1997.
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Images from The Colchester 24 Trust
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Keddies store in Queen Street
Photographed by John Knock on Sat at 11:45
Queuing for the pictures in Crouch Street
Photographed by Carol Murrells on Fri at 17:10
Video of driving past Keddies
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Video from 'TheWurn2'
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Video/Images of the Old Cinema
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Video from 'CJS 26'
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Video from Ethan Rampton
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Photos from Gary Rowe
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Video from Jessica Lovelock
Uploaded 8th Jan 2015
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Uploaded 26th Nov 2016
Video/Images of Jumbo
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Video from 'TheWurn2'
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Video from 'CJS 26'
Uploaded 13th Mar 2017
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Exploring an abandoned Odeon cinema in Essex
Opened in 1960, abandoned since 2005
XPLORING OLD ODEON COLCHESTER
Lower levels of old ABANDONED Odeon Colchester. Sorry for bad lighting{ I used a GoPro}
Fire at former Odeon in Colchester
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OVERNIGHT EXPLORATION OF BOURNEMOUTHS ODEON CINEMA
We travelled to Bournemouth to explore an abandoned massive Odeon cinema what at first we thought it was closed in the year 2000 to find out it closed much more recent
We find so much inside it's like they just got up and left saying that we don't think we was alone maybe some homeless people was staying inside we are not to sure but all in all a great overnight exploration....
HISTORY
ABC Cinemas was established in 1927 by solicitor John Maxwell[1] by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926.[2]
During the 1930s, it grew rapidly by acquisitions and an ambitious building programme under the direction of chief architect W.R.Glen, who had been appointed in about 1929[3] and maintained a distinct house style. Existing cinemas which could not be re-modelled were usually operated as separate circuits. In 1937, the parent company, BIP was renamed Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). ABC also ran cinemas under the Ritz brand such as the Ritz Cinema, Muswell Hill.
After his death in 1940, his widow Catherine sold a large number of shares to Warner Brothers,[4] who eventually became the largest shareholders and able to exercise control, though ABPC was separately quoted on the London Stock Exchange. By 1945 it operated over 400 cinemas (usually called the Savoy or Regal) and was second only to Rank's Odeonand Gaumont chains. By the close of the 1950s ABC had started rebranding most cinemas as ABC and dropped names like Regal. Uk exhibition was characterised by alignments between distributors and exhibitors. ABC had access to Warner Brothers, MGM and its own ABPC productions, whereas rival Rank had 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Columbia, Universal, United Artists and its own productions. Rival ABC, Odeon and Gaumont cinemas in a town showed their own releases and barred each other from showing the same film.
Television led to a sharp decline in cinema audiences after 1952 though with the coming of commercial television from 1955 ABPC had expanded into the new medium with the creation of ABC Television Limited, which gained the Independent Television contracts for the North of England and Midlands at the weekend. ABC-TV lost its franchises in 1968, and was merged with Rediffusion to become Thames Television.
As a result of the decline many suburban ABC theatres closed. Most of those remaining began, from the late 1950s to lose their individual names and were simply branded ABC. In 1959 Rank abandoned the separate Odeon and Gaumont release and put the best cinemas from each circuit onto a new Rank release. The remaining cinemas were given a new National release but this was unattractive to distributors and in 1961 Paramount switched to ABC after refusing a National release for the Dean Martin comedy All in a Night's Work. The National release soon ended entirely and there were in future just ABC and Odeon release patterns. In 1967, Seven Arts, the new owners of Warner, decided to dispose of its holdings in ABPC and subsequently EMI launched a successful take-over bid for the company. Associated British Picture Corporation was later to be renamed Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment Ltd, although the cinema chain retained its name. In 1986, this was later divested by EMI to the Australian businessman Alan Bond who sold the chain a few days later to the Golan & Globus Cannon Cinemas Group for a reported £50 million profit in seven days. EMI retained ABPC's lucrative television interests. Eventually, the advent of largely American owned multiplexes led to the end of barring and the old distributor alignments, which had in any case been rendered largely irrelevant by cinema closures often leaving only one cinema in a town, which had access to all films but usually had to give precedence to its traditional alignment (so an Odeon might have a poor Rank release in its biggest screen and a big ABC release in a small cinema and vice versa).
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Abandoned YWCA
the ywca was built in the 1969. the building itself contained 112 buildings which house the homeless and vunerble. in 2011 A fire got the ground floor. also the building use to be known as the angel tower. As Of 2018 the building has been demolished also the building across from it know as the square has also been demolished but sadly we were to late to get footage for the square.
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