Eltham Bingo Hall

Well Hall Pleasaunce. 2 Archery Road Eltham, London SE9 1HA England + 8888.

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A gang of thieves who carried out a £50,000 spate of violent robberies on security vans across southeast London have been jailed.

The four-strong organised crime group rushed guards carrying cash boxes as they made deliveries to Post Offices, a Co-Op, and a Mecca Bingo Hall.

They managed to get away with £28,000 in the final raid, but were captured by the Met’s Flying Squad following a high-speed chase.

At Woolwich crown court on Friday, Kieran Beazley, 33, Sam Holmes, 29, Sanchez Williams, 32, and David Leadbeater, 31, were all jailed after admitting conspiracy to rob.

The group, who all have a string of previous convictions, wore masks and gloves as they carried out the robberies between February and June this year.

A security guard was ambushed outside a Post Office in Mottingham on March 4, with one of the robbers – believes to be Beazley – “barging” him and grabbing the cash box.

Another of the gang was brandishing a screwdriver as they fled, driving away in a stolen Ranger Rover Evoque which was later found abandoned.

They struck again on June 4 at a Co-Op in Blackfen, southeast London, arriving in a white van with false numberplates before “violently barging the guard into the railings at the front of the shop”, said the Met.

A cash box containing £12,500 was briefly stolen, but the guard – together with a member of the public – tackled one of the thieves and retrieved the money.

Eight days later they carried out a robbery on a security van at New Eltham Post Office, but the Flying Squad was already lying in wait.

Beazley, Holmes and Williams emerged from their stolen vehicle and “sprinted towards the guard”, with Beazley rugby-tackling him to the ground to steal the cash box containing £28,000.

Leadbeater was the getaway driver, but their van was eventually stopped after crashing into pursuing police vehicles.

Beazley and Holmes are also believed to have been the robbers who ambushed a van outside a Mecca Bingo Hall in Eltham on February 17, when almost £7,000 was stolen.

Beazley, from Eltham, admitted three counts of conspiracy to rob, two counts of handling stolen goods, robbery, and three charges of driving while disqualified, and was jailed for ten years and eight months.

Williams, of New Cross, received a sentence of seven years and eight months, and Leadbeater, from Plumstead was jailed for ten years and eight months, after they both admitted involvement in three of the robberies.

Holmes, from Mottingham, pleaded guilty to one of the robberies and was jailed for 11-and-a-half years.

Detective Inspector Gail Lilley, of Central Specialist Crime, called the robbers “career criminals” adding: “We have put a stop to their criminal activities and taken dangerous criminals off the street.'

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Previously operated by:Odeon Theatres Ltd., Rank Organisation

Architects:Andrew Mather

Functions:Bingo Hall

Styles:Art Deco

Previous Names: Odeon Theatre

Phone Numbers: Box Office: 440208.850.3767
Manager: 440208.850.3767

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Located on Eltham Hill at the corner of Kingsground. The Odeon Eltham Hill was built for and operated by the Oscar Deutsch Odeon Theatres Ltd. chain. It opened on 14th April 1938 with Anna Neagle in “Victoria The Great”.

The facade is rather bland and is covered in sheets of cream and black glass. Inside the auditorium, seating was provided in a semi-stadium style with a seperate raised balcony at the rear that did not overhang the stalls seating. There were 883 seats in the stalls and 828 in the balcony.

The Odeon Eltham Hill was located only half a mile away from the Odeon Well Hall and very rarely played concurrent Odeon release films. The Odeon Eltham Hill tended to play the Gaumont release and from 28th November 1949 it was re-named the Gaumont. This was quite a rare event as usually Gaumont’s were re-named Odeon.

It was closed by the Rank Organisation on 19th June 1967 with David Niven in “Happy Go Lovely” and Dana Andrews in “Duel in the Jungle”. It was converted into a Top Rank Bingo Club which operates today as a Mecca Bingo Club.

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