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Leslie H. Kemp and Frederick E. Tasker were English architects who practiced in the 1930s as Kemp & Tasker.
They are best known for their cinemas, although they are responsible for a number of notable buildings in South London and Kent for a Messrs Morrell Bros. Builders [1] of 60 High Street, Bromley, Kent. These include:
- Motor Showrooms, Garage and Restaurant, 38 - 40 Croydon Road, Coney Hall, Hayes, Kent
- Dorchester Court flats, Herne Hill, London
- 5 Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London
- Crownleigh Court, Crownstone Road, Brixton, London
- Tudor Stacks, Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London (demolished)
In 1934 a Kemp and Tasker house design won the Daily Mail's Ideal House Competition and was erected temporarily at Olympia in the 'Village of Tomorrow' [2] at Ideal Home Show the following year.[3] Morrell's glossy brochure[4] advertised that it could be built to order anywhere and three known examples exist:
- 77 Addington Road, West Wickham (much modified as a health centre, but nonetheless Grade II listed in 2021)[a][3]
- 10 Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London[b][3] It was granted grade II listed building protection in 2022.[5][6]
- Stanstead, Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland (1936)[c][7]
Cinemas edit
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- 1932 Regent Cinema, Station Square, Paignton, Devon (demolished)
- 1933 Odeon Cinema, Whalebone Lane, Chadwell Heath, Essex (demolished)
- 1934 Ritz Cinema, Gordon Street, Luton
- 1935 Embassy Cinema, Braintree, Essex
- 1936 Regent Cinema, Hatfield, Hertfordshire[8]
- Towers Cinema (Odeon from 1946), Hornchurch, Essex (demolished)[9]
- 1935 Savoy Cinema, Petersfield, Hants.
- 1936 Ritz Cinema, Belfast, Northern Ireland[10]
- 1940 Regal Cinema (ABC from 1961), Camberwell (closed 1973)
- Commodor Cinema, High Street, Orpington, Kent (demolished)
- Odeon Cinema, Greenwich, London (demolished)
- Odeon Cinema, Romford, Essex
- Odeon Cinema, St. Albans, Hertfordshire (re-opened as the Odyssey, 2015)[11]
- Odeon Cinema, Stepney, London
- Rex Cinema, Wood Green, London
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Notes edit
- ^ 77 Addington Road coordinates: 51°22′12″N 0°00′09″W / 51.369951°N 0.002496°W
- ^ 10 Dorchester Drive coordinates: 51°27′31″N 0°05′52″W / 51.458577°N 0.097780°W
- ^ Stanstead coordinates: 53°17′51″N 6°12′42″W / 53.297489°N 6.211570°W
References edit
- ^ Hayes and Coney Hall walk notes, The Twentieth Century Society, 2007
- ^ The Ideal Home Through the 20th Century, Deborah S Ryan, 1997
- ^ a b c Marsh, Laurence (Winter 2021). "When is a house unique?". Herne Hill (152). Herne Hill Society.
- ^ Sales Brochure, held by Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent
- ^ "10 Dorchester Drive and boundary walls, non Civil Parish - 1480933 | Historic England".
- ^ "Immaculate Art Deco home in South London gets preservation order".
- ^ Free State Architecture, Paul Larmour, Gandon Editions, 2009
- ^ Eyles, Allen; Skone, Keith (2002). Cinemas of Hertfordshire. Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780954218904. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- ^ Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005). The Buildings of England: London. Vol. 5. East. London, New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780300107012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ Fading Lights, Silver Screens, A History of Belfast Cinemas, Michael Open, p 71
- ^ "Restored art-deco cinema reopens". BBC News. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2018.