Some Liverpool Cinemas

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Cheers Phil. A dole omg i was way off:)

Post your pics anyway, more the better.

Tony.

Thanks for all the pic,s and Info. I still have not found any pic,s of the
Cabbage Hall Cinema prior to LFC supporters club buying it. I have very few
details of it. I have tried the records office, no photo,s, LFC museum no info
city planning dept, city architects dept and loads of cinema groups both in the UK and worldwide, not a thing. Maybe one of the new members has a pic
It is very strange that no photo,s seem to exist

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I love these pics, well done Phil :handclap:

I think i have one of the Carlton in Tuebrook somewhere.

Here you go

The Carlton.

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Yes Phil, a dog's dinner of a mess now. You can just make a bit of it out as the Derby here. It's now Coynes and my mam and dad were buried from there. The pic is by Brian Martin. You can hear an ex resident of Wilbraham House (which is next door) talking about the penny matinees in there (when it was the Derby of course - not Coynes :unibrow: )

Thanks for the info, Yes I remember the Carlton and bowling alley, used to
got there a lot, don't know if it is true or not but I heard that EMI still own
the Carlton. Iam surprised no one has been inside it as unlike the bowling alley
it seems in tact

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

Unfortunately, it's not that strange.
Apart from the "Super" cinemas of the 1930s they were rarely photographed when they were actually operating as cinemas.
I'll try and compile a list of photos of pre 1930 Liverpool cinemas that I've seen (when they were cinemas).
There won't be many!

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OK Phil, thanks. As I have said before I used to live in Winchester Rd which
is just round the corner from Lower Breck/Rochester Rd, and my Granny used
to work the ticket box in the "Cabby".

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Brilliant pic phil. i never saw it like that.

American werewolf . cool:)

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Great pic of The Carlton, Phil. It was our local despite living in Canny. Never called it the ABC, so I reckon The Carlton name just stuck after 1963. Can't remember the last film I saw there, I was in London by the time American Werewolf in London came out. Most memorable film I saw in The Carlton was Clockwork Orange, not only for the subject matter, but also because I had my first Kentucky Fried Chicken meal afterwards, purchased nearby on West Derby Road.:)

The Futurist as she is today.
http://www.militaryimages.net/imageh...t/futurist.jpg

Nice pic Drone

I heard all that block is to be knocked down. is this true? if so what are they putting there.

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I came upon this website and thread earlier today (or was it yesterday now!) and have found myself saddened as well as delighted to hear people talking about the wonderful picturehouses that used to populate our fabulous (!?) city! It seems amazing to me that so little interest is shown by the powers that be (oh how we hate and despise them.............) in these extraordinary places of specific community and public importance. I know that the age of the tv has altered the way that we see films, along with the advent of the video and now the dvd, but even so, surley they are more than worth celebrating and preserving for historic as well as architectural reasons?

I remember the Hippodrome, and the cinemas on Aigburth Road so well, as well as the Gaumont in Dingle, and I seem to remember there was one in Garston?

Also, the mention of the Tatler was special, as when I was a child of course I was not allowed to go there........ Then there was the Palladium on Fraser Street, now the Bar de Mille. I remember my mother and father going to see a "significant" Brigitte Bardot x-rated film there, I think it was "And God Created Woman", and after mother telling me how sad she was I wasn't allowed to go with them, because the support was a film of Picasso painting on glass viewed from below so you saw the whole process! I eventually saw it about 20 something years later, after I had been to Art College - it is stunning!

I haven't seen any mention of the cinemas on Walton Road. Have I missed it by skimming through the thread or does noone remember the Astoria near Everton Valley, (which was only knocked down about two years ago, I think???), and the Victoria, I think it was, on the other side further along towards Spellow Lane, and there was another one, the name of which is escaping me at the moment.

Although I was brought up in Speke, my grandparents lived off Walton Lane and the three cinemas on Walton Road were regular haunts of my childhood.

Anyone know anything about them?

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Hi Philip,

Thank you for that. It's funny but as woke up this morning, I thought "the other one was the Queens"!! And there is your reply with it in!

No, I wasn't thinking of the Tatler. What was the one on one of the other streets off London Road, linked to the Continental on the Wirral - think it had been a theatre too, started by a famous British actor?? If I don't think about it it will come back to me!

Felicity

Felicity. You're either thinking of the Shakespeare theatre, Fraser Street or the Gaumont, Camden street.

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this is a brilliant thread.

I have a photo somewhere of the opening night of the film 'The Ghost Train' starring Arthur Askey, and I am sure it is the Odeon Cinema on London Road, I can't remember now.

I will get it up in the next few days.

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Hello Felicity and welcome to the forum.

If you follow the link to my flickr page, below, you'll see a set of "Demolished Cinemas" and a set of "Former Cinemas: Still with us" where some of the ones you mention are featured.
However, I haven't got photos of either the Queens or the Victory (both in Walton Road).
I think you've got the building in Fraser Street mixed up with the Tatler in London Road.
The Fraser Street building was only offices for the Paramount Film Company.

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The Paramount building on Fraser St..Now a Kurdish restaraunt.
This photo was taken on the site of the Gaumont picture house on Camden St.


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...S/DSC01422.jpg

The Odeon London Rd.
This was taken outside what was the Gaumont main entrance on Camden St.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...S/DSC01428.jpg

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Thanks, Gerard.
I don't like the way they've mucked up the windows.

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Your welcome Phil mate..I dont like the way they closed the Bar De Mille !!..Lol.

(EDITED) ..Sorry Phil..its been a Kurdish restaurant about a 6/8weeks..
Im not sure if its open yet.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

The Carlton opened in 1932.
Architect: A E Shennan.
Lords), the rest of the complex is now derelict.

April 1982.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/234/4...9de9df70_o.jpg

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You may laugh at this question Phil as you may have churned out hundreds already (and in which case, it'll be a massive DOH to me) but have you ever thought of writing a book on Liverpool Cinema's? You have some amazing pics!!

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You may laugh at this question Phil as you may have churned out hundreds already (and in which case, it'll be a massive DOH to me) but have you ever thought of writing a book on Liverpool Cinema's? You have some amazing pics!!

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Fantastic photo Phil...Well said Jona Lad..Get that book out Phil.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

That's a sore point, Jona! :PDT_Piratz_26:

Harold Ackroyd & I were both in the library at the same time researching cinemas, and the staff told him about me, and told me about him, so I always thought he rushed his book out.
I still want to do something about the earlier cinemas because he made a lot of mistakes.
(Let him sue me!) :eek:

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Yeahh thats the attitude Phil Lad...Mother F@)&^% !!

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

That's a sore point, Jona! :PDT_Piratz_26:

Harold Ackroyd & I were both in the library at the same time researching cinemas, and the staff told him about me, and told me about him, so I always thought he rushed his book out.
I still want to do something about the earlier cinemas because he made a lot of mistakes.
And he could have included much more pictures.
(Let him sue me!) :eek:

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Just because there is one book Phil (well 2 I think, but just an update) don't let that stop you! You have fantastic info and pics. There are tons of books on most subjects.... what counts is that they are informative and correct!

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

That's a sore point, Jona! :PDT_Piratz_26:

Harold Ackroyd & I were both in the library at the same time researching cinemas, and the staff told him about me, and told me about him, so I always thought he rushed his book out.
I still want to do something about the earlier cinemas because he made a lot of mistakes.
And he could have included much more pictures.
(Let him sue me!) :eek:

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Go for it mate! As long as you don't have to prove endless copyright issues and you know for certain that your photo's are your own and all the copyright legal stuff is OK'd by whoever's info you are using then if you can't join em, beat em!

There has been one book about the Williamson Tunnels which was truly bad and written on little more than hearsay, another one is due out by a founder member of one society, and Jona is in the middle of writing THE book which has all the real information from verified sources, pictures of all the area and about 4 portraits of Williamson himself :PDT11

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Originally Posted by Felicity

I haven't seen any mention of the cinemas on Walton Road. Have I missed it by skimming through the thread or does noone remember the Astoria near Everton Valley, (which was only knocked down about two years ago, I think???), and the Victoria, I think it was, on the other side further along towards Spellow Lane, and there was another one, the name of which is escaping me at the moment.

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The Astoria was a wonderful-looking building,I was very sad to see it go. I wrote off to try and get it listed but to no avail. Oh well...

Dave.

Can anyone help me out, I seem to remember a cinema in the early 70's in Liverpool I think it was in the James street area (I may be wrong) all it showed was cartoons, Thanks.

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Originally Posted by drone_pilot

Can anyone help me out, I seem to remember a cinema in the early 70's in Liverpool I think it was in the James street area (I may be wrong) all it showed was cartoons, Thanks.

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Not thinking of the Tatler are you ?

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Thanks for the info.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

That's a sore point, Jona! :PDT_Piratz_26:

Harold Ackroyd & I were both in the library at the same time researching cinemas, and the staff told him about me, and told me about him, so I always thought he rushed his book out.
I still want to do something about the earlier cinemas because he made a lot of mistakes.
And he could have included much more pictures.
(Let him sue me!) :eek:

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Go for it Phil

I love taking pics of old cinemas, i know nowt about them but i love the buildings. your input here has been an education to me and i thank you for it mate.