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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harbourm
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.
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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.
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.
The former Bedford Cinema in Walton has just been demolished.
From this...
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...to this.
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Futurist, Lime Street. It looks like the last sections of artwork are going up today. Workmen were there earlier.
Philip, thanks for keeping us informed about the Bedford cinema.
I'm sorry that they demolished it after all. :sad: it's disgraceful that they did that :PDT_Xtremez_12: :PDT_Xtremez_12:
thanks for the update Philip,I agree with Lindylou that its a disgrace that they've knocked it down :PDT_Xtremez_12:Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
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 correctlyQuote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
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.
Park Palace: Workmen were clearing stuff into a skip outside. They must be getting it ready for its' re-opening later in the year. Both doors were open, but the only thing I could see was a large empty hall.
It was the Prince's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Smithee
Originally it was called the Granby.
The floor of the exit from the screen end.
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Sad picture Philip :(
Park Palace plans:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-21362955/
HI NANCY, THE PHOTO YOU HAVE TAKEN WAS THE (TROCADERO CINEMA) IT WAS IN ITS DAY, A VERY FINE BUILDING,SAW MANY ROY ROGERS AND JOHN WAYNE FILMS THERE,FURTHER UP VICTORIA ROAD ,WALKING AWAY FROM THE RIVER WAS THE (COURT CINEMA) REGARDSQuote:
Originally Posted by nancy o.
A portable Cinema is in William Brown Street. (for this weekends Childrens Festival). It's inside a cargo container.
There's supposed to be an open-air Cinema (an inflatable screen?) in St James Gardens. I think it costs £4-£6 to view. I didn't see it there this morning.
http://www.theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk/
this was in my 08 email this afternoon
From 7- 9 August the Lodestar Theatre Company bring you Liverpool's only Open Air Cinema in the stunning setting of St James' Gardens next to Liverpool Cathedral. For only £6 (conc £4), you can enjoy three films on a huge, inflatable airscreen, each with Shakespeare in mind.
On 7 August you can see John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, on 8 August Al Pacino's Looking for Richard will be screened starring Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, and on 9 August Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes. Doors open at 8pm, films start at 9pm.
For tickets call 0151 727 1703 or go into the News From Nowhere on Bold Street, or the gift shop at Liverpool Cathedral and some tickets will also be available on the door in St James' Gardens.
the former cinema in Mere Lane was set alight last night :PDT_Xtremez_12:
Out of all the former cinema sites in Liverpool, that's about the only place where I've felt uncomfortable, and that was even before there was a murder there.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbo176
The last time I was there I saw a lot of hoardings, so I don't know if the area is any better now.
The actual building has been altered so much (on the exterior, at least), that it's not worth photographing anymore.
Here's how it was in March 2007.
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Hiya,
I've only just found this site, having started out looking for the Carling Academy in Liverpool, near the Odeon. Never realized that the Odeon on London Road was originally a single screen - I thought it was a travesty when the made it into 5 by creating a screen in what used to be the bar...
While my sister and I were growing up, my Dad worked for a firm in Toxteth called Haywards (I think that's spelled correctly) who did a lot of work for local cinemas, theatres and such like. The thing that looked like a shed on the top of the front of the Carlton for so many years through the late 70s and 1980s was put up by my Dad! Growing up, we rarely paid to get into cinemas as my Dad would just have a chat to the manager, get us in, then he and mum would be having a drink with the manager in the interval!
My Dad's favourite place to take us was the Abbey in Wavertree I think, followed by the Carlton. I think we saw The Spy Who Loved Me in the Abbey. Definitely saw Watership Down there as we got past all of the families queuing up at the front doors. My mother was mortified when we went in a side door!
Does anyone remember the manager at the Abbey being held at gunpoint in his home and then forced to hand over the takings from the theatre? I think it was about 1976 or maybe 1977? Before the Towering Inferno which was, as someone else mentioned, the final picture that the Abbey presented. A lovely theatre with a fantastic stairwell. Nearest I've seen to it since then was the one in H.H.Robertson's factory which used to be in Cromwell Road, Ellesmere Port.
At one point, the Liverpool Echo took a picture of Fred, the cat at the Forum. Not sure what the occasion was, but my sister still had a copy of the picture last time I was round at her house. At that point, it was still a single screen and both the Scala and the Futurist were still open. They had a high level walkway if I remember rightly that took you from one theatre to the other. My sister and I saw Grease at one of them when it was released in 1978.
Occasionally, we'd venture as far as Birkenhead and go to what was, by then, the Classic on Conway Street. It was rare to go there though. My grandparents went to a picture house on the other side of the road (was it the Ritz?) during the 2nd war. They were still a courting couple and decided that, rather than stay there when the sirens went off, they'd go home. They later found out the picture house had taken a direct hit. Not their time to go!
My family rarely went to the Classic in Allerton, but I remember seeing all of the first six Star Trek movies there, three on Saturday and three on Sunday, just before Generations came out. Seems a very long time ago! :(
Ironic that I no sooner write the above post than I flick to the first page in this thread and realize that the chaps' name that I was trying to think of, Ambler Ramsden, was mentioned in the first post.
My Dad usually referred to him as Rammey and only very occasionally by his full name.
Does anyone have any pictures of the Rialto in Toxteth as a picture house? As well as having done work in a lot of Liverpool theatres in the 1970s, he was also manager of the Rialto at one point apparently.
Wasn't he also connected with the cabbage hall picture house, talkingQuote:
Originally Posted by etmsreec
of which still found no pic,s of it prior to LFC supporters club
If you ever find any let me know. I would love to see any pics of the Cabbage hall.
HiQuote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
hope you are well. I have searched everywere, all to no avail.
I remember it well as my gran worked the ticket box, but I never
ever saw any pic,s.
Steve
The author of "Dream Palaces of Liverpool"; "Southport Stage and Screen", and "Liverpool Theatres" has died.
I think he would have approved of his death being reported in this thread.
R.I.P. Mr Ackroyd.
Harold Ackroyd - Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk
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Yes R.I.P. Harold.
I second that, Ged. "Dream Palaces of Liverpool" is one of my favourite books
R I PQuote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
I'll have to go and get myself copies of those books now...
The entrance to the containerised mobile/portable cinema featured in Marky's earlier pic which was situated in William Brown st for a festival.
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Tuebrook Cinema/Coconut Grove/The Venue: Plans passed. Demolition to follow. Here's some links from 2006-2008...
Coconut Club site on sale for 1.6m - LDPbusiness
New battle on club site - Liverpool Echo.co.uk
Go-ahead on flats at club site - Liverpool Echo.co.uk
Park Palace:
The name was getting fitted today. I'm sure it re-opens this evening (as a theatre).
A Biennial artwork road-sign has appeared again outside The Futurist.
Talking of pre-1930's cinemas - has anybody ever traced photos of the pre-Quote:
Originally Posted by steveb
30's Queens and Victory on County Road. And do they still exist as cinemas?
Stan H.
Hiya StanQuote:
Originally Posted by 18stanley
welcome to Yo :PDT_Piratz_26:
the site of the Queens cinema on Walton Rd is now a McDonalds carpark
Mandy
Many thanks Mandy - I'm not really surprised.It looked to be in need of a
hefty refurbishment even to my 10 year old eyes in 1930. But it used to be
the highlight of my young life every Saturday afternoon! Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson,
the early Hal Roach comedies, and of course Betty Boop, Pop-eye the Sailor
and the rest. Do you know whether it was the Germans who did for it or just
the march of Time? The Victory as I remember was rather a cut above but it
would surprise me if it turns out to be still going. How about the 3 upmarket
ones of those days - the Astoria,Princess and Commodore, which were my
teenage glamour providers - have they all gone too? Has anybody produced
any info on those, do you know? Thanks anyhow for your help. Stan H.
What's this about the Astoria? Am I to understand that it's gone? And,if so, how and when? I've just been told that the Queens is no longer on County Road. AreQuote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
there any cinemas left in Kirkdale? Stan H.
The Astoria is no more. I went to the Victory in the late 1950's, but it had disappeared by the 1970's. Don't remember the Queens. The Princess turned into a bingo hall in the 1970's. I believe they have now demolished the Bedford in Bedford Road. What a shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by 18stanley
There is a good book available with all the old picture houses, including histories and pictures. Can't remember who the author is.
Hello there. Will there be any photos of old Kirkdale cinemas? I've only justQuote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
started researching this area but am rapidly getting the impression that it's
a forlorn enterprise. Particularly as they all seem to have disappeared into
limbo! Stan H.
I've been taking photos of Liverpool's cinemas since 1982.Quote:
Originally Posted by 18stanley
Both the Queens and the Victory had already been demolished.
The Queens went about 1980, and part of a side wall remained in 1982.
The Victory was demolished soon after it closed in 1961.
Harold Ackroyd's book has one photo of each, but the one of the Queens is rather poor, and only the entrance to the Victory is shown.
The Astoria was demolished a few years.
The Commodore and Princess are still standing, although there are plans to demolish the Princess.
The Grosvenor is still standing.
There are photos of the last four in my Flickr page.
Look in my "Sets".
There's also a photo of the Queen's when it was a supermarket.
That's in K G Rose's set.