Empire Cinema

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Empire Cinema
Photo: ©Kevin R Boyd

The former Empire Cinema site remains cleared except for the facade with its supporting scaffolding and an unsightly pile of rubble at the rear. According to Empire Cinemas, start on work on the new 16 screen cinema complex has been delayed because of internal design changes caused by the need to move to digital screening. No formal start date for work has been given but the Ealing Gazette suggested in November that building work could start in 2010 with completion in 2011. A picture history of the cinema (originally built in 1934 as the Forum Cinema) can be found here.