Some Liverpool Cinemas

[Samp]

The Grosvenor,Garrick,Astoria,Victory and Queens were the ones I frequented
most as a youngster. The first 3 were easily bunked into without paying.
The Garrick had two entrances the main one was very grand, up a flight of steps and used by the better off patrons. The other was opposite Sandhey street were we poor people entered. The difference was in the seating.
them that used the front entrance had plush upholstered seats while we had
benches to sit on. Needless to say when lights went out for the start of the film there was a mass exodus on our bellies to the posh seats.
There was also the Popular on Netherfield Rd which we visited on our school
holidays for the afternoon shows it only cost 4d to get in,if you had no money
you could give 6 empty jam jars in lieu as there was money paid on empty jars
and lemonade bottles in those days.
Who thinks recycling is new?

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Your Giving your age away there Gerard's dad. I thought the Lytton was the only one that accepted jam jars!

[Samp]

Sorry I have just had a senior moment, I ment Greg's dad.

[marky]

Park Palace, Mill Street
I've been told this was on BBC TV a few days ago. I can't find a link on 'Google'
It does get a mention on this site, about re-opening later this year.
http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/blog.html

[quincyg]

Park Palace, Mill Street
I've been told this was on BBC TV a few days ago. I can't find a link on 'Google'
It does get a mention on this site, about re-opening later this year.
http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/blog.html

it's was on the BBC's regional prog Inside Out. I only caught the end of the piece.
it could be on the BBC Iplayer maybe?

[Wooltonian]

scouserddave.
I think we have met before. I just joined this forum, and seem to remember we have talked photography before.

Good to see you contributing on here.
Wooltonian (Brian Seddon)

[Harbourm]

There used to be a cinema just before Tue Brook railway bridge on the left going toward town. I'm banging my head again'st the wall trying to remember what it was called. I think it was turned into I don't know what in the late forties/early fifties. Anyone any idea's?

[PhilipG]

There used to be a cinema just before Tue Brook railway bridge on the left going toward town. I'm banging my head again'st the wall trying to remember what it was called. I think it was turned into I don't know what in the late forties/early fifties. Anyone any idea's?

It was the Empress.
Opened 1915 and closed 1960.
In 1961 it was converted into Cooper's supermarket with a rebuilt frontage. The supermarket was closed about 1968 for demolition, and the site was used for toilets and the entrance to a subway under West Derby Road.

[lindylou]

phew, Philip you really know your cinemas

I hadn't heard of that one even though I was born just over the way from Tuebrook.

By your description - was it by Oak Leigh and New rd?

there is a building on the corner of new rd that looks like it could have been a cinema. It is a church now.

[PhilipG]

Yes, it was on the corner of Oak Leigh, near New Road.
West Derby Road was also widened about 1969, so the building went completely (as said).
That church has been there for over 100 years, perhaps - there used to be a pub next door to it, on West Derby Road.

[PhilipG]

The former Bedford Cinema in Walton has just been demolished.

From this...



...to this.

[marky]

Futurist, Lime Street. It looks like the last sections of artwork are going up today. Workmen were there earlier.

[lindylou]

Philip, thanks for keeping us informed about the Bedford cinema.

I'm sorry that they demolished it after all. it's disgraceful that they did that

[robbo176]

The former Bedford Cinema in Walton has just been demolished.

From this...



...to this.

thanks for the update Philip,I agree with Lindylou that its a disgrace that they've knocked it down

[shoney]

just found this fab piece on the Abbey http://www.wooltoncinema.co.uk/html/cinematributes.html

brought back some memories, including summat I'd forgotton...the first supermarket to go in the old building was LENNONS. now there's a blast from the past. we used to walk the roughly 2 miles up there to do our shopping then get the 79 home.

can't believe it's 25 years since it closed , I loved that cinema *sniff*

before lennons went in it stood vacant for a while with an advertising placard above the door obviously advertising the last film there, it was the towering inferno if i remember correctly

[Alan Smithee]

Hi Lindylou!

So...does anyone on this forum remember the name of the cinema in Granby Street? I can remember going there in the mid 60's as a kid, it was a very old fashioned cinema even then, and I think it had an old fashioned name like the Regal, or Tivoli.

Great to see pics of the Abbey - remember going there once in the 70's to see Mary Poppins.

Other cinemas I have memories of in Liverpool would be the main ones in the centre, like the Odeon, ABC, Futurist, Scala, the Studio cinemas on Mount Pleasant (think that was all of the main ones).

I lived in Kirkby from 68 - 79, and they built a cinema there in the 70's above the Woolco store (where I used to work as a salesman on the furniture and carpets dept) called the J and A cinema, which also had a bingo hall next to it.

Horrible, tatty little place, to be honest.

I left Liverpool in '79, and up until '92 actually worked as a cinema manager in London for the Classic chain, who went on to be Cannon/MGM, and for a while also for CIC cinemas who then owned the Empire Leicester Square, and the now defunct Plaza in Lower Regent Street.