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The Shepherd's Bush Palladium (alternatively Shepherds Bush Palladium) is a former cinema in Shepherd's Bush, London, originally built in 1910 as the Shepherd's Bush Cinematograph Theatre. The building has had a number of owners over the years and finally stopped showing films in 1981. After standing empty for some time, it was eventually converted into a pub and for many years was owned and operated by the Walkabout chain of Australasian-themed bars. In October 2013 the building was sold to a property developer, and in 2014 it was the subject of a pre-planning application to demolish the building and replace it with a 16 storey block of flats. ==History== The Palladium was completed on 3 March 1910 and was originally called the Shepherd's Bush Cinematograph Theatre. The original owner was Montagu Pyke; the building was designed by an unknown architect. The original seating capacity was 900. From the beginning there were problems. In January 1921 the manager of the Cinematograph complained to Hammersmith Council - which owned the local electricity supply station - that there was too little power available to screen films, and that therefore the theatre had to close at 6.15pm. He claimed compensation of £60 for loss of business.〔Barbara Denny, ''Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush Past'', London: Historical Publications, 1995, ISBN 0-948667-32-X, p. 101.〕 In November 1923 the building reopened with 763 seats as the New Palladium (later called the Palladium, the Essoldo, the Classic, and finally the Odeon 2), designed by architect John Stanley Coombe Beard. Beard designed many cinemas in and around London, judged by one architectural historian as "excellent, if stylistically slightly eccentric".〔Richard Gray, ''Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture'', The Cinema Theatre Association, London: Lund Humphries, 1996, ISBN 978-0-85331-685-5, p. 27.〕 During World War 2 the building narrowly escaped being hit by a flying bomb, which in 1944 hit the neighbouring Shepherd’s Bush Pavilion, destroying the original interior. The Pavilion did not re-open until 1955.〔〔("New plans submitted for Shepherd's Bush Pavilion" ), Shepherd's Bush W12.com, 6 November 2009, retrieved December 2011.〕 The Palladium was modernised again in 1968 and the seating was reduced to 500; reopening was delayed by a fire.〔Ian Grundy, (Odeon 2 Shepherd's Bush ) at Cinema Treasures.〕 In 1972 the building was renamed The Classic.〔Denny, p. 99.〕 The building was taken over by Odeon Cinemas in 1973 and renamed Odeon 2.〔〔Allen Eyles, ''Odeon Cinemas volume 2: From J. Arthur Rank to the Multiplex'', Cinema Theatre Association, London: British Film Institute, 2005, ISBN 1-84457-048-7, p. 246.〕 However, it did not flourish and the cinema closed in December 1981 for the last time.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shepherd's Bush Palladium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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