Odeon Romford

The Havana Cinema opened on 29th January 1936 with the double bill of Conrad Veidt starring in “The Passing of the Third Floor” and Kay Francis starring in “Stranded”.

It was designed by noted cinema architects Leslie H. Kemp and F.E. Tasker and was built for and operated by an independent operator Victory Super Cinemas Ltd. who sold it on to another independent Eastern Cinemas Ltd. in April 1937. It was equipped with a Compton 3Manual/8Rank (with Melotone) organ and there was a café.

Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres chain took control from 28th February 1943 and it was re-named Odeon from 28th November 1949. It was tripled from 24th March 1974.

The Odeon closed on 8th July 1990 in favour of a new eight screen Odeon built in the nearby Liberty 2 Shopping Centre (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).

The Havana/Odeon became a ‘shoot 'em up’ Lazerquest centre for a short period of time but after that closed, the building was boarded up and left empty and decaying apart from a dance studio which operated from the former café.

In 1999, it was renovated and re-opened as two nightclubs, one called Time, the other called Envy, which continue in use in the 2000’s as Fiction and Cameo. By the early-2010’s it had been renamed Liquid and later in the 2010’s it was renamed Atik. In January 2024 the operators of the PRYZM & Atik chain of nightclubs announced that were planning in calling in administrators. The Atik nightclub was closed on 2nd February 2024.

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