Coventry Street`1973-2021 - a photo on Flickriver

Coventry Street`1973-2021

Many Thanks Yet Again To
John H Hutchinson For The Classic On The Left www.flickr.com/photos/are_me/9027641218 I First Done This Comparison In 2011 Now Deleted...Since Then The Casino And KFC Have Departed....The Rialto Cinema which opened in 1913 as `West End Cinema Theatre Rialto`partly designed by Horace Gilbert it was renamed The Rialto in 1924 it finally closed in 1982 ..it has been Grade 2 Listed since 1989.....Underneath the Cinema since 1924 was Cafe De Paris but tragically struck on March 8th 1941 when two 50K landmines came through the Rialto roof straight onto the Cafe dance floor 34 people were killed, including Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnston who was performing onstage at the time...Snakehips' head was blown from his shoulders. Dancers' legs were sheered off. The blast, magnified in the confined space, burst the lungs of diners as they sat at their tables and killed them instantly...Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson, came to Britain from Guyana aged fifteen and was on his way to changing the British music industry. He was well-established throughout the UK due to his regular appearances on BBC radio and was famous by the time he was killed aged just 26....A Special Constable on duty that night was a certain Ballard Berkerly who later in life would feature in Fawlty Towers,He was shocked to see looters, mingling with the firemen and the police, cutting the fingers from the dead to get at their expensive rings `so it happened then to?`....That night was particular sad night in London including Bombs at Buckingham Palace,Liverpool Street Station and Dean Street Soho.....Quality Inn has been there at least since the early Fifities and went sometime in The Eighties.......Goodnight

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Taken on: October 28, 2021

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