Kemp & Tasker
Addington Road Health Centre, Addington Road in West Wickham, built by Kemp & Tasker
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
- 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. Morrell's glossy brochure [3] advertised that it could be built to order anywhere and three known examples exist:
- 77 Addington Road, Hayes, Kent
- 10 Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London
- Stanstead, Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland (1936)[4]
Cinemas
- 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
- Towers Cinema, Hornchurch, Essex[5]
- 1935 Savoy Cinema, Petersfield, Hants.
- 1936 Ritz Cinema, Belfast, Northern Ireland[6]
- 1940 Regal Cinema (ABC from 1961), Camberwell (closed 1973)
- Commodor Cinema, High Street, Orpington, Kent (demolished)
- Odeon Cinema, Greenwich, London (demolished)
- Odeon Cinema, Hornchurch, Essex
- Odeon Cinema, Romford, Essex
- Odeon Cinema, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
- Odeon Cinema, Stepney, London
- Rex Cinema, Wood Green, London
References
- ↑ Hayes and Coney Hall walk notes, The Twentieth Century Society, 2007
- ↑ The Ideal Home Through the 20th Century, Deborah S Ryan, 1997
- ↑ Sales Brochure, held by Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent
- ↑ Free State Architecture, Paul Larmour, Gandon Editions, 2009
- ↑ Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005). The Buildings of England: London. 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
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