An alternative view of the former ODEON, London Road...
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ad-JAN2009.jpg
Taken in January 2009 from the top level of the NCP car park in Lord Nelson Street.
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An alternative view of the former ODEON, London Road...
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ad-JAN2009.jpg
Taken in January 2009 from the top level of the NCP car park in Lord Nelson Street.
One of my favourite cinemas has to be the Plaza in Waterloo. It's been enhanced recently with the addition of a new Art Deco-style canopy.
This photo isn't particularly good, but I really like the new canopy. All the films that are now showing are displayed on the illuminated canopy.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/taxipix/PLAZA.jpg
Great pics Ross, keep em' coming.
I can't find any info right now about this one, but here's the Pavilion 'Pivvy' Bingo Club on Lodge Lane.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...xteth-2008.jpg
Obviously the front elevation has been altered in recent times, but I suspect it might have been a cinema...
Does anybody have any information on this (former cinema?) in Victoria Road, Widnes?
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...S-MAR20082.jpg
I also had some photographs of the former cinema in Peel House Lane, but I've managed to misplace them; and there was also the smaller cinema nearby that's since become a J.D Wetherspoon pub (The Premier?).
The Pivvy in Lodge Lane was the Pavilion.
A theatre.
It never became a cinema.
It was 100 years old when you took that photo.
There was a fire in 1986 which completely gutted the beautiful auditorium, which had to be demolished and replaced.
The Queens Hall in Widnes is a converted chapel.
It wasn't a cinema.
Wetherspoons in Widnes was the Premier cinema, but the front has been demolished.
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Cracker pics Ross.:handclap: Nice to see the Odeon from a different angle.:PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
Smashing pics all. Ross, I love that one of The Odeon, London Rd. The little building on the corner!
Cheers for the info Phil :handclap:
The little building on the corner! = Ma Egerton's I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Tis' aye.
Woolton Picture House was being used as a film set for "Nowhere Boy" a few days ago.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-23172885/
It certainly is, and coming up to lunchtime on a nice day - this could be the perfect time for 'alf a Guinness and a ham batch in Ma 'Edgy's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Davec
News theatres were small cinemas showing news and cartoons and were usually in cities and large towns.
Most of them were called Tatler, a registered name controlled by Capital and Provincial News Theatres Ltd. It was rare for any one town to have more than one news theatre.
The Tatler in Church Street, Liverpool opened in 1934. It wasn't the first in the country, as somebody (Mr Ackroyd?) claims. The entrance to it was in what had been the UK's first Woolworths store. All Tatlers were taken over by Classic Cinemas and Church Street reopened in October 1968 as the Classic and showed feature films. This phase lasted less than a year and it reopened in September 1969 as the Tatler Cinema Club. By this time Classic only used the Tatler name for their sex cinemas, and in December 1972 the Tatler Cinema Club moved to the former Kings in London Road. Church Street then became the Classic Cartoon Cinema, only to close rather abruptly in March 1973 "for redevelopment". For a number of years the auditorium was used by Solitaire (ladies' fashions), but the cinema has since been dismantled.
In 1936 the Prince of Wales cinema in Clayton Square became a news theatre called the Prince of Wales News and Feature Theatre. It became the Liverpool News Theatre in 1946, when it was taken over by Jacey. In 1962 it became the Gala International Film Theatre, showing Continental films, and in 1963 was renamed the Jacey. It closed in 1972 with X-rated films, and then became a church called The Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Thanks Philip. :PDT11
That's interesting.
So when we've been looking at clothes in Solitaire, we've actually been standing in the auditorium !! ??
Solitaire is still open. It never crossed my mind that it's where the cinema used to be.
Great info Philip :PDT11
Hi Ged and Lindylou.
Has it gone back to Solitaire?
It was Bon Marche for quite a while.
In case anyone's wondering, we're talking about Williamson Street.
there was a book called dream palaces off liverpool any help
Solitaire is next door to Bon Marche so the shops must cover the area of the former cinema.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Hiya Tony.Quote:
Originally Posted by tony parker
That book was by Harold Ackroyd and here is a snippet from Philip's posting (just above)
''The Tatler in Church Street, Liverpool opened in 1934. It wasn't the first in the country, as somebody (Mr Ackroyd?) claims.''
I don't know enough about the subject matter but trust Philip's research more in this field.
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Thanks Ged.
The 2/6 postal order is on its way. :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
That's fine ;)
Do you still want a pic of the front of the popular?
Yes please!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
On the way via email. :)
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Originally Posted by PhilipG
re Solitaire and Bonmarche.
took this photo yesterday - so they are on the site of the former auditorium ?
That's it - right in the middle of your photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
The one with the three arches. :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
I always thought the canopy with Tatler on it and the entrance was in Church St though?
Hi I'm new here and am amazed at the wealth of information. People are really interesting. :)
I was just wondering if anyone had any photos of the inside foyer of the old Odeon on Allerton Road? My family lives nearby and my dad phoned to say the 'new' Classic had been closed down. What a shame, we spent many happy hours there and in the old cinema on the same site. I'd love to see some pics of the inside of the old cinema, it was all marble pillars with a goldfish pond in the middle - to a kid it was like a palace. We went to the Saturday morning pictures there for years.
Here's hoping !
You're right Ged,Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
pic' as previously posted! Not the clearest,but you can make out "Tatler".
Steve.
Although blurred, here is the fountain/goldfish bowl, also the auditorium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mollie
Taken April 1971
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Originally Posted by wsteve55
Didn't it have a Kardoma cafe inside the foyer?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
Hello Sirob.
Geds got a picture of the Popular cinema!
I've still got your DVD of the railways, send an Email!
The Tatler building then and now - - I'm a bit confused because the building I photographed is on a corner- Church st/Williamson st, yet the older photo shows it as being further in the middle of the block.
Brilliant as usual Sirob. :PDT11
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Originally Posted by lindylou
Hello Lindy
My recollection is that it was in the middle of the block so the brick building you're showing must be a different building, I think.
Chris
Yes, I am a bit mixed up now :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
I did think at the time that my recollection of the cinema was not of it being a corner building.
I photographed Solitaire and Bon Marche which are both next door to each other in Williamson st. I expect Philip will unravel the mystery :)
edit - as an afterthought, I think Solitaire have moved premises once or twice, so I am guessing that they may have been in a shop on Church st then moved around the corner to Williamson st ??
I wonder if anyone can remember.
Hi Lindy
It looks to me as if the lower building that is at the right in the first color shot, next to the tall corner building, is the same one that is on the left hand side of the period black and white view showing the Tatler. The windows look the same.
Chris
Well, I was only a kid,but I do remember an expresso machine,on a counter!:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Samp
oh thank you so much Sirob, my dad will be made up to see these :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
Have two more then, the facade and the projection roomQuote:
Originally Posted by Mollie