INDEX	November 14, 2014
The Granada So it seems that Antic, the company that re-opened the Red Lion in Leytonstone High Road, has taken over the Granada. All the nonsense about compulsory purchase was just that. Nonsense. McGuffin's, the campaign to save the cinema, was named by me but actually conceived by Katy Andrews. I did all the leg work to create the organisation in the first place but it was then taken over by people who seemed to have more pleasure running a campaign than actually achieving the objective: saving the building. It was always completely obvious that UCKG was the best conceivable owner of the Granada, a fact brought home to me when I was given a tour of the The Rainbow in Finsbury Park, which UCKG had lovingly restored. Had it not been for the implication of the church in a high profile case of a death of a child, UCKG would have got planning permission to do the same job it did at Finsbury Park in Walthamstow. Will Antic do as good a job? I hope they do but I fear that the chance of the building ever showing films again is now no better than it would have been if UCKG had gone ahead with its plans.
November 14, 2014,° Jonathan Brind		INDEX