PART of the Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes is to become a multi-screen cinema.
The site – to be called The Gramophone – will celebrate the area’s rich cultural and industrial heritage while providing a bespoke cultural and entertainment hub for Hayes and beyond.
The Gramophone will be where the old EMI record plant stood. Records by artists such as Pink Floyd and The Beatles were historically pressed there.
The Gramophone was formerly known as Apollo House, a listed building which had been partially demolished before being acquired by the Really Local Group in 2019.
As well as providing a four-screen cinema, The Gramophone will include a café/bar, ‘listening room’, recording studios, workspace and an inter-active exhibition.
Large sections of the pressing plant will be retained by regeneration firm U + I, with additions including grooved façade panels and steelwork to reflect the stylus of a record turntable.
Wall-mounted projectors will cast inter-active images on to the street to engage residents and passers-by.
The Gramophone is the final piece of The Old Vinyl Factory master plan, which features more than 750 homes, office space, an academy, shops and leisure outlets.
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