In 1997, the Picture Palace website was born. It was one of the first places on the Internet to highlight
the architecture and design of cinema buildings. Now, ten years on, the site is changing. In future, alongside the cinemas, it will celebrate other types of buildings dedicated to leisure and entertainment. Expect illustrated articles on theatres, television studios, film studios, pubs, amusement parks, arcades, lidos, cafes and maybe even the odd well-designed public lavatory. All of this takes time, with prose to be honed and boxes of old photographs to be sorted. The proprietor thanks you for your patience and, in the interim, invites you to admire the beauty of the Granada, Tooting.

The architecture of pleasure