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Me in #37. I remember going there on a family cinema trip. Did you have the pleasure of visiting The Embassy?

I did the same at the Odeon Kingswest in the mid 70’s. Hundreds of kids terrorising the staff, who wore a hideous purple acrylic uniform. Whilst parents got peace shopping at Wades, Werff, Solitaire, Vokins etc.

Thanks, I’d never heard of that school before. What a short life from construction to demolition. I assume the site is now the 1970-ish housing development Surrenden Park (terraces, in exactly the same style as Martlets, Upper Drive, Hove).

The Kingswest and the new Hove Town Hall - disgusting 60’s architecture. Powerful council heads of planning in the post was era favoured a clean sweep, it all looked great on paper. Luckily for us, Ken Fines emerged to stop the rout before all was lost.

Also: The Embassy on Western Road (close to the Hove/Brighton border). It became a laser gaming place in the 90’s. We saw The Towering Inferno there!

I never went to that cinema but on car journeys as a nipper with my Dad, I remember seeing the Vogue directly in line as we drove down Bear Road. Before the gyratory obviously.