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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Woolton Picture House

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post


    Originally a 255 seat auditorium, the Woolton Picture House in Mason Street first opened on 26th December 1927 and is the oldest surviving cinema in Liverpool. The original name, Woolton Picture House is still visible above and behind the canopy at the entrance, the cinemas architect was Lionel Pritchard.

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  2. Woolton Village

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post

    Just across Menlove Avenue is Woolton Village which is on the surface a pretty suburb of Liverpool which to a large extent retains the vestiges of village life in the face of an ever-encroaching and all-encompassing "improved way of life" which means in effect more traffic and more housing estates, just two factors which have sounded the death knell of
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