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Report - - The Kings Hall - Southall, Middlesex - October 2017 | Theatres and Cinemas | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - The Kings Hall - Southall, Middlesex - October 2017

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Grom

Camera Drowner
Regular User
This one required an early start, but the morning adventure to The Kings Hall was worth the effort. Visited with @zombizza.


History

"Located in Southall, Middlesex, in the west of Greater London. The King’s Hall was built in 1916 and was designed by architect Sir Alfred Gelder of Hull. The King’s Hall building has a 3-storey red brick and stone facade. It was operated by the Uxbridge and Southall Wesleyan Mission and it was soon screening religious films.

By 1926, it was operating as a regular cinema, still managed by the Methodist church.

The King’s Hall Cinema was closed in 1937. It then reverted back to a Methodist Church use as the King’s Hall Methodist Church. They vacated the building in January 2013"



The Explore

Started nice and early, and managed our entrance fairly incident free...if we don't count the massive tear in my trousers..

It's a pretty spectacular place with a wonderful blend of natural decay and marvelous original features/architecture. With little to no daylight, we decided to wonder round the back rooms while the sun came up before the spending too much time on the main attraction, the large auditorium.

The rooms around the back are a weird mix of new and old, some of them being more disgusting than others. One room was so pungent that I took 2 steps in before bailing out.
There was also one room that was filled with beds, old food packets and needles. Looked a few years old, but squatters for sure.
The larger rooms consisted of meeting rooms, prayer rooms and teaching rooms. All of them had funky wavy flooring where the wooden floor tiles had expanded with moisture.

Eventually the sun came up and the auditorium started to flood with the golden morning light.
After a few hours we left, although the exit was hilariously unsubtle.


Photos

The Auditorium

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pigeonboy

Be gentle
28DL Full Member
nice to see a place that hasn't really been touched up by the kids, years of natural decay in such an architectural building looks outstanding :thumb fantastic report once again
 

zombizza

Sore Knee
Regular User
nice shots! love your fisheye looking down, and also your shot of the hanging clothes
funny, i actually spotted you taking that fisheye in one of my photos, you put your trust in your tripod huh!-
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Grom

Camera Drowner
Regular User
nice shots! love your fisheye looking down, and also your shot of the hanging clothes
funny, i actually spotted you taking that fisheye in one of my photos, you put your trust in your tripod huh!-
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Haha nice catch there! It was a bit of a faff taking a long exposure while hanging out a sky light, it worked though!
 

Andrew32

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28DL Full Member
Beautiful, definitely will go here soon before it gets trashed...
 

UrbandonedTeam

the north
Regular User
amazing report! love pictures like the first one in circular facing seats at abandoned theatres, and how many pianos are you trying to tease me with, good work mate
 

Andrew32

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@UrbanFoxCub
Mate you need to delete your comment, you replied to the entire post, so all the text and photos of the report are taking up space.
 
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