Kemp & Tasker

[[File:Addington Road Health Centre 11CT23.jpg|thumb|Addington Road Health Centre, Addington Road in West Wickham, built by Kemp & Tasker]] '''Leslie H. Kemp and Frederick E. Tasker''' were English architects who practiced in the 1930s as '''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 <ref>Hayes and Coney Hall walk notes, The Twentieth Century Society, 2007</ref> 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' <ref>The Ideal Home Through the 20th Century, Deborah S Ryan, 1997</ref> at Ideal Home Show the following year.<ref name="When">{{cite journal |title=When is a house unique? |last1=Marsh |first1=Laurence |journal=Herne Hill |date=Winter 2021 |issue=152 |publisher=Herne Hill Society |url=https://issuu.com/hernehillsociety/docs/herne-hill-mag-152/s/14746590 }}</ref> Morrell's glossy brochure<ref>Sales Brochure, held by Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent</ref> advertised that it could be built to order anywhere and three known examples exist:

* 77 Addington Road, West Wickham (much modified as a health centre, but nonetheless Grade II listed in 2021){{efn|77 Addington Road coordinates: {{coord|51.369951|-0.002496|type:landmark_region:GB|name=77 Addington Road}}}}<ref name="When" /> * 10 Dorchester Drive, Herne Hill, London{{efn|10 Dorchester Drive coordinates: {{Coord|51.458577|-0.097780|type:landmark_region:GB|name=10 Dorchester Drive }}}}<ref name="When" /> It was granted grade II listed building protection in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1480933?section=official-list-entry | title=10 Dorchester Drive and boundary walls, non Civil Parish - 1480933 | Historic England }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/immaculate-art-deco-home-in-south-london-gets-preservation-order-55416/ | title=Immaculate Art Deco home in South London gets preservation order }}</ref> * Stanstead, Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland (1936){{efn|Stanstead coordinates: {{Coord|53.297489|-6.211570|type:landmark_region:IE|name=Stanstead}}}}<ref>Free State Architecture, Paul Larmour, Gandon Editions, 2009</ref>

==Cinemas== [[File:The Restored Odyssey Cinema (geograph 4533115).jpg|thumb|The Odeon, St Albans (re-opened as the Odyssey, 2015)]] thumb|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<ref>{{cite book|last1=Eyles|first1=Allen|last2=Skone|first2=Keith|title=Cinemas of Hertfordshire|date=2002|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=9780954218904|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvXAOp7CxjwC&q=Kemp%20%26%20Tasker%20architects&pg=PA46|accessdate=22 March 2018|language=en}}</ref> *Towers Cinema (Odeon from 1946), Hornchurch, Essex (demolished)<ref name="Pevsner">{{cite book|last1=Cherry|first1=Bridget|last2=O'Brien|first2=Charles|last3=Pevsner|first3=Nikolaus|title=The Buildings of England: London|volume=5. East|page=178|date=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|location=London, New Haven, [Conn.]|isbn=9780300107012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EW7k2KA4UkwC&q=towers%20cinema%20hornchurch&pg=PA178|accessdate=12 October 2016}}</ref> *1935 Savoy Cinema, Petersfield, Hants. *1936 Ritz Cinema, Belfast, Northern Ireland<ref>Fading Lights, Silver Screens, A History of Belfast Cinemas, Michael Open, p 71</ref> *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)<ref>{{cite news|title=Restored art-deco cinema reopens|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30428185|accessdate=22 March 2018|work=BBC News|date=13 December 2014}}</ref> *Odeon Cinema, Stepney, London *Rex Cinema, Wood Green, London {{commons category}}

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