Paramount Cinema London Road Liverpool 1934 Various Interior & Exterior Images

[Kev]

Paramount Cinema London Road Liverpool 1934 Various Interior & Exterior Images courtesy LRO.

1) Interior - café.
2) Interior with screen.
3) Interior - foyer.
4) Exterior view with lights.

[pablo42]

Great pictures Kev. It's easy to seewhy they called them palaces. When you think what the average home looked like during the same period. It musta been like living like Royalty for a couple of hours.

[Ron Ham]

It WAS a palace to me Pablo, in about 1942 when I was 11 yrs old & my annual treat at Xmas I was given the choice , the Panto at the Empire or the Paramount to see Robin Hood with Errol Flynn ! I chose Robin Hood , sheer luxury ,carpets & velvet seats ! On another occasion it was 'South With Scott' , such unforgettable memories . Ron

[pablo42]

Ha, Errol Flynn in Robin Hood. I loved that film, it was magical. How naive we were then, I always thought Errol was a hard nosed hero, he was just like me...

How dissapointing....

[dazza]

Interesting that a palace of light, a cinema, should be built on a site associated with the dark, and of not seeing.

The site the Odeon Cinema now stands on used to be occupied by the 'Schools for the Indigent Blind'.

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab174/dal8077/Blind.jpg


Source: 1848 OS map, from the superb Alan Godfrey Edition.

[pablo42]

Nice one Daz. Who'da thought that.