I support Bob Cannings' assertion that the cinema near Hove station was the Odeon.

It was opened in 1948 and, upon closure, was converted into a ten-pin bowling alley.

It was one of three Odeons in Brighton and Hove, the others being in West Street and Kemp Town.

More information on local cinemas can be found at www.terramedia.co.uk/themes

-Phil Hamerton, Cissbury Way, Shoreham-by-Sea