British Deco Revisited:

The Midland Hotel (Morecambe, Lancashire). The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company decided to replace the existing Victorian building with a more modern structure. In January 1932 it approved plans for a new hotel to be built on the seafront at a cost of just under £72, 000. The LMS saw Morecambe as an opportunity to make a new departure from traditional hotel design and selected the architect Oliver Hill to provide the company with “a building of international quality in the modern style”. Work commenced in August 1932, the new building rising from the lawn in front of the old hotel before the latter was eventually demolished some months later (source).

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Faraday Building, home of a BT exchange (London, built in 1933. Architect: A.R.Myers).
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The (former) Garrick Thatre, Southport. Built in 1932 on the site of the Opera House and said to be George Tonge’s finest design. A massive building in red brick with stone dressings in what was described, loosely, as Italian Renaissance style, but actually a splendid Art Deco invention. Frontages to Lord Street and Kingsway are linked by a curved corner with skyscraper-like ornamental pilasters. Many tall windows with shouldered heads. The Lord Street entrance was originally surmounted by a high canopy with an open colonnade above at first floor which served as a promenade. The now modified foyer had a domed ceiling and niches in Egyptian style. Spectacular Art Deco auditorium has a rounded proscenium with a vast splayed anti-proscenium almost engulfing the four boxes on either side. Curved ceiling follows the contours, previously lit by trough lighting; splayed, panelled walls and, at stalls level, panels with recessed lighting.
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The Labworth Cafe (Canvey Island), built in 1932-33 by Ove Arup, who was the chief engineer of the Sydney Opera House too. Much modified since the 1953 floods, and dereliction in the 90s, this is a wonderful place to eat. The seaward facing part used to have two shelters either side, now cafe seating area. The landward facing part used to be on “stilts”, with the view resembling two concentric drums on top of each other. The stilts were filled in as part of the Canvey flood defence scheme after the bad 1953 floods.
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Muswell Hill Odeon Theatre (London), built in 1936.
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The Guildhall (Kingston-on-Thames). Designed by Maurice Webb. 1935

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It’s not my first post on British Deco. Probably you’d like to see the 1939 Empire Terminal or other examples of Art Deco buildings in London.