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William Edward Trent

Born: 1874

Died: 1948

William Edward Trent was born in 1874 and articled to Henry Poston of Lombard Street, London in 1892

Starting in 1909 Trent specialized in cinema design. This led to his appointment first as the chief architect to Provincial Cinematograph Theatres (PCT), and then as architect to the Gaumont British Picture Corporation, which took over PCT in 1929. One of Trent’s best known extant theatres in the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.

Theatres on this website in which this architect was involved:

New Victoria Cinema, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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