On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jim Brittin wrote:

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CharlesPottins writes
From the same A-Z that I described that tube map, another interesting section
is a gazetteer towards the back of "Places of Interest".
[...]
People's Palace, in Mile End Road (promising "Continental Films, every Sun,
7.30" and a "Pantomine at Xmas, seats 1/6d to 2/6d" (station Stepney Green);

I think this must now be Genesis, although I've been told that the
building (looks a bit like a Menorah) opposite Mile End station is on
the site of a cinema.

Genesis was the Empire cinema, the one opposite your station was the
Odeon.

The People's Palace was next to Queen Mary's at Bancroft Road.

It's actually a part of QM, and is still there. See:

http://hepwww.ph.qmul.ac.uk/travel/ppalace.html

tom

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