Keywords: Newbury Abbot Trent's Comedy.JPG en The Habitat store in the King's Road was originally the Gaumont Palace a huge cinema first opened on the 8th December 1934 It was built on the site of the studios and laboratory of the film pioneer William Friese-Greene The cinema was designed by architects William Edward Trent and Ernest F Tulley William Edward Trent commissioned his younger brother the sculptor Newbury Abbot Trent to create three bas-reliefs on the building's facade These are still there One is a relief portrait of Friese-Greene and on either side are relief figures of Comedy and Tragedy own Weglinde Gordon Lawson 2011-04-14 Cc-zero Sculptures by Newbury Abbot Trent |