F. E. Bromige

Frank Ernest Bromige (5 July 1902 – 23 December 1979) was a British architect of the Modernist and Art Deco styles.

According with the rapid development of suburban architecture of 1930s London, cinemas and other leisure buildings were recognisably modern and innovative, and also accounted for the need to attract customers as they travelled past.

Early on in his career Bromige drew on Art Deco, but by the mid-1930s he was inspired by German expressionist architecture, such as Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower.

In the postwar period, housebuilding was prioritised, and Bromige's final cinema project was the Regal in Hitchin, opened in 1939.

Other leisure buildings he worked on in his career included amusement arcades, such as in Jaywick,[10][11] and the Portsmouth Stadium.