Comments on: Melvyn Reeves At The Troxy

By: Gerry Wiseman

Gerry Wiseman — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:49:49 +0000

I used to love going to the Troxy. The show usually lasted about 3 hours or so.
Sometimes the mighty organ would arise from the depths and we’d have a sing a long.
My last visit there was when i was doing my National Service back in 1954.

Gerry Wiseman
Westminster, MD USA

By: Vanda Human

Vanda Human — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:14:31 +0000

It is oh so beautiful. I love Art Deco, wonderful to see that the Troxy has been restored and not destroyed.

By: ian powell

ian powell — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:16:25 +0000

Denis Nordern, the television presenter and writer used to be the manager of the Troxy as well as a few others in the same chain (all at the same time). I think he was still only a teenager when he ran it.

By: Alan Gilbey

Alan Gilbey — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:17:30 +0000

Love what they have done with it and appreciate all the money they have spent on restoration, but I’m afraid all the foyer decor and lamps only dates back to the 1980’s and the Troxy’s life as a bingo hall. George Cole’s original foyer was double height with a balcony and rather classical in style. The owners hope to recreate as much as they can in the near future, but it will be too expensive to rip the false ceiling out. The carpet is new too, but wonderfully thay have styled it on the wall ‘fountain’ designs – which can’t have been cheap.

By: valerie-Jael

valerie-Jael — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:09:45 +0000

Forgot to say, love that photo of Melvyn ‘wearing’ the crown! Valerie

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:19:23 +0000

This building has had so many different incarnations. It’s marvelous that it has survived in one glorious piece!

By: Sarah Correia

Sarah Correia — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:48:13 +0000

Wonderful movie palace. The carpet alone has an incredible art deco pattern. Makes me miss the ones that were here that have been torn down. And thank you as always.

By: Susan Goldman

Susan Goldman — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:56:13 +0000

It’s so nice to see that the Troxy has been restored to its former glory rather than being demolished, which is so often the case in Tower Hamlets these days. It looks wonderful. Thank you for telling this story Gentle Author.

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:50:30 +0000

A very impressive ART DECO childhood place, which is very rare!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:48:52 +0000

Would that the same restoration could be applied to Walthamstow’s cinema the “Granada” [ Formal title, now, “EMD”]
But, thanks to a mixture of gross incompetence & a few brown enevelopes, the council are doing …. nothing.
Except, of course, allowing their developer friends to build a new cinema, right next door!