Some Liverpool Cinemas

[Davec]

Bleedin' 'ell Ged, that deserves an upper-case wow.......WOW

[Ged]

Thanks all. Do you know what Mart, something to do with water over the or something

Only an idea of the date Steve. The adverts say the building's coming down before xmas for the construction of the ABC which was Quentin?........

[Davec]

Was this it's 1st. incarnation? .....

http://www.cinema-theatre.org.uk/atr..._liverpool.htm

[Ged]

I think so, so i'd put the pic at about 1929 maybe - how long would it have taken back then to build the cinema?

[Quentin_Sharples]

I think so, so i'd put the pic at about 1929 maybe - how long would it have taken back then to build the cinema?

Yes, Ged, 1929.
I've had to wait for a reply from somebody who knows.

He says:
"It was built by J A Milestone between 12 March 1930 and 18 May 1931.
The new cinema was announced in the Liverpool Echo dated 27 June 1929.
W Aubrey Thomas supplied plans in 1925 of a cinema to be built on the site, but that scheme wasn't followed through."

Just imagine if that had been built.
A cinema by the architect of the Royal Liver Building.

[scouse smurf]

I reckon it's worth reposting this, incase any of the newer members ain't seen these photos

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...ma-Lime-Street

[gregs dad]

The old Princess cinema is still standing on the junction of Selwyn St and Brewster St

[Ged]

Nice pic Joe. See inside the place near the bottom of this page.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=51055098&cr=7


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[Kev]

I reckon it's worth reposting this, incase any of the newer members ain't seen these photos

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...ma-Lime-Street

Thanks SS. I thought Snappels pics had all been taken off his site, obviously not

[Ged]

It's a pity his old Royal infirmary ones have, I was looking for those only a couple of months ago.

[gregs dad]

[QUOTE=Ged;281450]Nice pic Joe. See inside the place near the bottom of this page.

My first date with my wife was in there on New years day 1955 after meeting up with her on New Years eve outside St Mary`s Church,Walton, where people used to gather to let the new year in.
We then went back to her friends for an all night party and made a date to meet outside the Princess.
She had to travel from Old Swan while I just walked up from Kirkdale but I did see her home safe,as always a gentleman. The picture was Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and I bought the ice creams.

[Ged]

Nice Joe. Felt safe on home territory eh?

[gowshika]

For some reason I always thought the cinema was further back off the road. I remember it

being the Odeon, then renamed the Classic. Everyone still called it the Odeon. There was a milk dairy behind the cinema. I knew a girl whoes dad owned the

dairy and lived there. The road to the left is a service road and is still there.

The whole area of Penny Lane/Allerton Road had no pubs. A very

large area - odd for Liverpool. The nearest pubs were the Brook House in Smithdown Rd and the Rose of Mossley right up Rose Lane. This has now changed with

the wine bars and the likes along Allerton Road making this road quite an animated place.

Thanks for sharing

[Ged]

The old Derby Cinema on Scotland Road reveals it's sign and other bits of writing on the side wall after having its cladding removed.




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[Ged]

A new Liverpool Cinemas publication from the Liverpool Echo archives. Lots of great photographs in it.




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One for Mart, the New Premier in Prescot Road near Green Lane. Latterly the Premier pub but now closed.




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And one for Zappa, The Regal in Norris Green.




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