Sorry I have just had a senior moment, I ment Greg's dad.
Park Palace, Mill Street
I've been told this was on BBC TV a few days ago. I can't find a link on 'Google'
It does get a mention on this site, about re-opening later this year.
http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/blog.html
Proud Scouser, with a dabbling of Welsh and Irish.
bore yourself silly at my Flickr page...anorak central!
scouserddave.
I think we have met before. I just joined this forum, and seem to remember we have talked photography before.
Good to see you contributing on here.
Wooltonian (Brian Seddon)
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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?
Last edited by PhilipG; 05-11-2008 at 05:10 PM.
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.
Last edited by PhilipG; 05-11-2008 at 05:23 PM.
The former Bedford Cinema in Walton has just been demolished.
From this...
...to this.
Last edited by PhilipG; 05-24-2008 at 11:12 PM.
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. it's disgraceful that they did that
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.
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