Marina Picture Palace Size:M sunlight cutting through grimy windows

sunlight cutting through grimy windows onto a floor that once moved millions of bottles a year

Daylight cuts through narrow vertical gaps in the wall

Encroaching vegetation and weathered timber walls record the slow work of seven decades of abandonment

raw wood exposed where decades of weather have done their work

Marina Picture Palace Size:M sunlight cutting through grimy windowsA 'Top Video' sign hangs from the awning at 409 Gardeners Road, below a rust coloured vertical fin rising the full height of the Inter War free classical facade. The Marina Picture Palace opened on 28 May 1927, designed by architect William de Putron, who was also a consortium member in the building's construction. Part of the Marina Picture Palace series.