Harrow Empire and Picturedrome
Clarendon Road,
Harrow-on-the-Hill,
HA1 1HS
Clarendon Road,
Harrow-on-the-Hill,
HA1 1HS
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Located in Harrow-on-the-Hill, a district of Harrow, Middlesex in the north of Greater London, on the corner of Clarendon Road and St. Ann’s Road. The Harrow Empire and Picturedrome was opened in either June or July 1910. It was closed in 1914 when the operator went bankrupt.
The building became a furniture store, and was demolished in August 1985. Today, the site forms part of the St. Ann’s Shopping Centre.
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The handbill (see photos) dates from May 1914, and a cutting from the [Harrow] Observer records that the Picturedrome did, indeed, close in 1914, not 1913. After the First World War it was converted into a second-hand furniture shop run by Harrow-based Biggs and Company. In 1928 Arthur Adams and Sons Furnishers took over and, since then, it was known as the Adams Building. The cutting is dated 1st August 1985, and records the demolition of the building, which had been “in a state of disrepair for the last year and even had a dangerous structures order slapped on it by Harrow Council’s engineering department”.