Architecture is one of my main passions, and although anything Art Deco always has a special interest, I also love to try to spot old cinemas, picture houses from the past that may now be closed for good, or only existing in some other role. The 50’s, 60’s and 70’s saw so many of these fabulous buildings closed for good, with many of them then demolished to make way for carparks, supermarkets and housing estates. Those that are left are often in precarious positions, like the Birmingham Palladium in Hockley that I featured in this post earlier this year, falling to wrack and ruin without the protection of either local…