Kemp & Tasker

Leslie H. Kemp and Frederick E. Tasker were English architects who practiced in the 1930s as Kemp & Tasker.

Addington Road Health Centre, Addington Road in West Wickham, built by Kemp & Tasker

They are best known for their cinemas, although they are responsible for a number of notable buildings in South London and Kent for a Messrs Morrell Bros. Builders [1] of 60 High Street, Bromley, Kent. These include:

  • Motor Showrooms, Garage and Restaurant, 38 - 40 Croydon Road, Coney Hall, Hayes, Kent
  • Dorchester Court flats, Herne Hill, London
  • 5 Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London
  • Crownleigh Court, Crownstone Road, Brixton, London
  • Tudor Stacks, Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London (demolished)

In 1934 a Kemp and Tasker house design won the Daily Mail's Ideal House Competition and was erected temporarily at Olympia in the 'Village of Tomorrow' [2] at Ideal Home Show the following year.[3] Morrell's glossy brochure[4] advertised that it could be built to order anywhere and three known examples exist:

Cinemas
The Odeon, St Albans (re-opened as the Odyssey, 2015)
Towers Cinema Hornchurch (demolished 2017)
  • 1932 Regent Cinema, Station Square, Paignton, Devon (demolished)
  • 1933 Odeon Cinema, Whalebone Lane, Chadwell Heath, Essex (demolished)
  • 1934 Ritz Cinema, Gordon Street, Luton
  • 1935 Embassy Cinema, Braintree, Essex
  • 1936 Regent Cinema, Hatfield, Hertfordshire[8]
  • Towers Cinema (Odeon from 1946), Hornchurch, Essex (demolished)[9]
  • 1935 Savoy Cinema, Petersfield, Hants.
  • 1936 Ritz Cinema, Belfast, Northern Ireland[10]
  • 1940 Regal Cinema (ABC from 1961), Camberwell (closed 1973)
  • Commodor Cinema, High Street, Orpington, Kent (demolished)
  • Odeon Cinema, Greenwich, London (demolished)
  • Odeon Cinema, Romford, Essex
  • Odeon Cinema, St. Albans, Hertfordshire (re-opened as the Odyssey, 2015)[11]
  • Odeon Cinema, Stepney, London
  • Rex Cinema, Wood Green, London
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Notes
  1. 77 Addington Road coordinates: 51.369951°N 0.002496°W / 51.369951; -0.002496 (77 Addington Road)
  2. 10 Dorchester Drive coordinates: 51.458577°N 0.097780°W / 51.458577; -0.097780 (10 Dorchester Drive)
  3. Stanstead coordinates: 53.297489°N 6.211570°W / 53.297489; -6.211570 (Stanstead)

References
  1. Hayes and Coney Hall walk notes, The Twentieth Century Society, 2007
  2. The Ideal Home Through the 20th Century, Deborah S Ryan, 1997
  3. Marsh, Laurence (Winter 2021). "When is a house unique?". Herne Hill. Herne Hill Society (152).
  4. Sales Brochure, held by Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent
  5. "10 Dorchester Drive and boundary walls, non Civil Parish - 1480933 | Historic England".
  6. "Immaculate Art Deco home in South London gets preservation order".
  7. Free State Architecture, Paul Larmour, Gandon Editions, 2009
  8. Eyles, Allen; Skone, Keith (2002). Cinemas of Hertfordshire. Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780954218904. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  9. Cherry, Bridget; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005). The Buildings of England: London. Vol. 5. East. London, New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780300107012. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  10. Fading Lights, Silver Screens, A History of Belfast Cinemas, Michael Open, p 71
  11. "Restored art-deco cinema reopens". BBC News. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
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