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High Road Leytonstone E.11 - What A Crazy World (1963)

20/1/2015

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The ABC Bowling Centre was at 829 High Road Leytonstone:
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Before conversion in 1960 this was the Rex Cinema, built in 1936 - another of W.R. Glen's creations for Associated British Cinemas:
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(For an example of Glen's work for ABC to which I am more particularly attached, see here.)

The building was demolished after the bowling centre closed in 1972, and in its place stands this:
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Google Street View July 2014
What A Crazy World shows the interior of the bowling alley:
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Another of the film's locations is a few miles south of Leytonstone, around the Theatre Royal on Angel Lane, Stratford (we see posters for Oh What A Lovely War):
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Other locations include Whitecross Street E.C.1 and a housing estate between York Way and Caledonian Road, N.1 (these locations are all documented on the Reel Streets site, here). We also see the Caledonian Road itself, a little further south than the Friday the Thirteenth location identified in an earlier post (here):
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corner of Bingfield St and Caledonian Rd
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Caledonian Road Baths, at the corner of Stanmore St
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Jane
11/12/2017 09:27:51 am

Hi.... the Rex Cinema which became the ABC Bowling Alley was built on the site of my Great Grandfather's Wheelrights and Coachbuilders yard. The Google photo you have on here is not the correct present day view of the location. The view you have is where Bearmans Department Store stood.

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Ian Jacob
20/2/2025 06:59:41 pm

The building that you show as the location of the bowling alley is incorrect. This was where Bearmans and the Rialto cinema used to be. The ABC was actually nearer 675 High Rd.

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