In the dark
Do you play host
To the flickering ghosts
Of flickering ghosts?
I'll explain that cryptic verse. This is the Ealing Christian Centre, an Elim Pentecostal Church. I have no issue with that. When I passed the building it looked to be in very good condition, and I thank them for that.
I grew up in Ealing, and when I was a kid, Ealing contained 3 cinemas - the Studios 1 and 2 (formerly the Lido) which was very much the bargain basement - the ABC in Ealing Broadway which was a step above, and then this building,which was the Odeon Cinema and very much the best of the bunch. It was built in 1932, in very much a Spanish Moorish sort of style. The cinema - which was a Coronet Cinema by then, closed as a cinema in 1985, a year before I moved away from Ealing for good.
I'm not really sure what prompted me to want to sketch the building today. But I'm glad that I did.
