Hollywood Green Cinema Complex (London)

 forest, cinema

Wood Green Showcase Cinema (www.showcasecinemas.co.uk/pages/woodgreen.phtml), 180 High Road, Wood Green, London N22 6EJ.

For most of the twentieth century the Lordship Lane frontage of this site accommodated the Cinematograph Theatre building and Burridge and Company, undertakers. The Cinematograph was a purpose built cinema. It opened in 1910 and closed in the late 1920s. The building then became Garner's furniture depository and housed Harry Boult's School of Dancing on the first floor. In more recent years it become an indoor market hall. Both buildings were demolished in 1999 to make way for a new six screen cinema. Also visible in the old photograph is H D Chesser, Farrier (or Blacksmith) which survived as a going concern from 1770 to 1920s. There has been a building at this western of Lordship Lane since at least 1619.