Some Liverpool Cinemas

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A question. Can anyone tell me what was the cinema in Almonds Green
now a super market I beleive.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

It was the West Derby Picture House.
It opened in 1927 and was renamed the Plaza in 1955 and closed in 1960.

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Thanks Phil, another one off my list

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

You're welcome, Steve.
What list is that?

Your photo is quite old.
When was it taken?

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The photo is around 1984. Iam trying to find details/photo,s of all the
old Liverpool cinemas, some buildings as you know look like cinemas, but
wern't. I live just off Townsend Ave and there are a good few old cinema
buildings by me, Taskers, Regal Broadway and the one, now a childrens
play place on Townsend ,think it was the Clubmoor, no pic,s of this though
as a cinema....

Some of those Bethel churches and the like look like cinemas but weren't.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

Have you seen my sets on my flickr page. (see link below).
There's "Demolished cinemas" which are my photos taken of former cinemas that went after 1982. I think that's almost complete.

And there's "Former cinemas - still with us". That's far from complete.

Is it that you just want to take photos of the remaining buildings?
I'll make out a list of addresses.
Or........?

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OK if you could make a list maybe on my travels I could re photo them.
Idealy I would love pic,s of when they were cinema,s, tall order. I have
the usual stuff from LRO but a lot of small cinema,s were never archived.
Plenty of time, so no rush

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I drive past loads of former cinemas on my travels but I assumed you had them all Phil. If you or Steve want me to take any on the Litherland, Bootle, Kirkdale, Anfield route, i'm always down that way each weekend and lots of times even further afield.

Phil, it's a long shot but worked for me looking for my stuff now and again.

There are lots of aerial photos of Liverpool taken in the 1930s. You can usually zoom in on these once saved, have to tried looking for any that way?

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

Steve, in this thread, there's a list of cinemas that I've never seen photos of.
Page 8. Post 152.
And it gets even more difficult finding photos of any when they were actually operating as cinemas, apart from the 1930s super cinemas.

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Had a look and it is pretty much what Iam after. The Ritz Utting Ave
now Taskers Sports, I will contact Taskers t o see if they have any
pix prior to them altering the front. The Clubmoor Piture House Townsend Ave
not see any of it as a cinema, Cabbage Hall arggggg, the pain of my life, spent ages all to no avail looking for a pic as a cinema, tried all over, LRO
LFC, planing dept, cinema treasures, etc, etc. Only one on I think it is
Smithdown is this

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Originally Posted by Ged

I drive past loads of former cinemas on my travels but I assumed you had them all Phil. If you or Steve want me to take any on the Litherland, Bootle, Kirkdale, Anfield route, i'm always down that way each weekend and lots of times even further afield.

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Thanks for the offer, but it is OK as I have pic,s of what most look like
now, it is the oldies when they were open as cinemas, thanks again

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

That thumbnail is the New Premier Cinema in Prescot Road, near Green Lane.
That photo was dated 1959, just after it closed as a cinema.
The building is now one of Liverpool's official grot spots.
All the front was demolished and it became a pub called the Premier.

I haven't seen any photos of the Ritz as a cinema.
The Clubmoor appeared in a local paper when it was new, so I took a photo of the microfilm screen.
I've got it on a disk somewhere & I'll post it when I find it.

If Taskers do have any pics of the Ritz, ask them if they've got any of the Capitol in Overton Street, Wavertree, as they built a new building on that site.

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OK will do, yes went past the premier the other day a right mess.

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Thanks Phil
I remember the Clubmoor now, I was 12 in 1960 and lived up the road
in Winchester Rd. 1960 seems to be the year most Liverpool cinemas
closed down. Have been in touch with Taskers, so will let you know
the outcome. My avatar is the new toy, a Fuji S9500 9Mp with 28 to 300
zoom and macro that works down to 1CM

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Have you got the Lido, Belmont road, as the Lido Phil as I came across it (not literally though) in a book I have yesterday.

That must have been where the Wookey Hollow nightclub was. :)

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CAMPAIGNERS battling to save Liverpool’s first cinema are appealing to English Heritage to award the building listed status. more The former Bedford Hall cinema in Walton was opened on Boxing Day 1910.

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Is that building one in Overton st Phil, where Taskers is now? Source: Reflections site.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

I've just received this from one of the people trying to get the Bedford Listed.
Bad news, I'm afraid.


Dear Philip,

Not good news for the Bedford as I'm afraid EH have turned it down -
again. I putting all the reasons from them as to why they wont
list it in the post today for you to read. I am very sorry that
this so disappointing.

Best wishes,

Richard

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Sorry to hear that, Philip. As I am involved in a preservation battle here in the U.S. to save a War of 1812 battlefield, with partial success so far, I know how hard such battles are and how difficult it is to have to accept setbacks.

Chris

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Is it because some of its originals features are no more and it's been modified as you've mentioned before?

Such ridiculous reasons really if that's the case.

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Originally Posted by scouserdave

Bigging up pictures usually degrades them unless you have certain software. Probably best if you send them au natural:)

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Has anyone got any pictures of the, now sadly demolished, Granby?
If so can they be sent to my email address as attachements? thanks George Roberts.

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Source - http://liverpool.ndo.co.uk/wavsoc/books/

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I dunno if this is of any interest,but going past the former Derby cinema on Scotland Rd. on the bus,(the undertakers' one),I noticed some of the cladding on the south corner had vanished to reveal the original building. It's not much-but someone with a zoom lens might want a shot. ;)

Dave.

I was brought up in Halewood in the 60's and 70's and so used to go the Woolton every Saturday to the kids matinee. They used to be quite wild, to the extent they had to get a policeman to walk about during the films

Went to the Majestic a couple of times it used to show films a couple of weeks after they had been on in town. Sneaked there from Halewood to see the two Dr.Who films, Very nice cinema but past its best in the 60's the seats used to give off tons of dust if you hit them.

Me mother took me to see "Help" at the Odeon in London Road, it was like going to a plush red velvet and shiny brass picture palace, a massive single screen,

Lastly the Abbey Cinerama was also magnificent, went to see the Great Race there and continued right up until it closed. It used to have cheap one off matinee on a wednesday saw Chinatown and Midnight Express. That cinema was almsot unique and we let it go.....cant believe it.

During the the end of the 70's I used to win a lot of free tickets off radio merseyside competitions (ramsey Campbell) most of them were for the 051, which sort of became an instant dump...the best worst free ticket I won was to see a 3D sex film called "what the swedish butler saw" with Diana Dors, It was a preview screening at 10.30 am, so I turned up....no one on the box office, except a big oile of 3 D specs, so I take one and wander into a darkened cinema, aware that there were a few other people in there but it was too dark to tell who they were.

The film was pretty tame too.......

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