Uncovering a concealed 1930s art deco cinema

A cinema frontage close to Harrow on the Hill, which has been covered over with a ghastly metal facade since the 1960s is starting to be revealed as the facade is restored as part of a property development.
The Safari Cinema, as it’s now known, opened in 1936 with a grand frontage of the type popular in that decade. However, when the cinema was renamed the ABC in 1962, the owners for some reason decided that art deco was offputting and covered the entire front in a facade of metal sheets.