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    Hope it stays, I want

    to go to it sometime!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    REYNOLDS WAXWORKS

    12 Lime Street, Liverpool

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    Reynolds Exhibition can lay claim to being the first establishment in Liverpool to regularly show films. It wasn't exclusively a cinema as

    the place was a Waxworks, which had opened about 1858.
    Freaks were also frequently put on show.
    Reynolds Waxworks showed its first films on

    the 31 December 1896, and "The Wonderful Animatoscope Living Pictures" stayed for one week.
    Films ("The Cinematograph") returned to Reynolds Exhibition

    on 10 May 1897. (They were given equal star billing with "THE LIVING DOLL. A human atom!" This was a 17 months old baby, twelve inches high and weighing

    only 22 ounces.) The films then stayed for 19 weeks until 18 September, and it is this period which qualifies Reynolds as Liverpool's earliest (albeit

    part-time) film venue.
    Films were not to return to Reynolds again for a number of years, but they were a regular fixture by 1910.



    "Weekly Courier" 26 March 1910. (Extract).
    “The (waxworks) gallery was founded by Alfred Reynolds, the father of the present proprietor, Charles

    Reynolds, and the building, with its extensive ramifications, floors and nooks, was originally designed as a temple of Masonry (a Masonic Hall). When it was

    nearly ready for occupation a hitch in the negotiations resulted in a dispute, of which Alfred Reynolds took quick advantage, came to terms with the

    builders, and speedily opened his "gallery".”

    Liverpool Echo, 17 Dec. 1920.
    "This morning there has been a deal over Reynolds's

    Waxworks, which has changed hands, and will be modernised by Mr Fred Parker, who has left the City Picture House (which was then renamed the Futurist), and

    has taken this show-piece."

    Photo dated Aug 1921 shows Reynolds Exhibition for sale.

    In 1921 - while the

    Waxworks was still functioning - there were two separate proposals to convert the building into a cinema. Nothing came of either scheme, and Reynolds

    Waxworks was closed in 1922.
    In March 1923 the contents of Reynolds Waxwork Exhibition were sold by auction (by Turner and Sons). It was said

    that more interest was shown in the costumes than the personalities they represented. Liverpool never did have another Waxworks.
    The premises were

    reopened in 1924 as Reynolds Billiard Hall, with tables on the upper two floors. The ground floor was used as a tea room, which became the Empress Chinese

    Restaurant in the 1950s. The second floor billiard hall reopened as the Marionette Ballroom about 1945, with the first floor continuing as a billiard hall.

    Everything closed in 1964 when the building was demolished along with the surrounding property for the Ravenscroft Scheme (St John's Centre).

    All the

    photos are from the Liverpool Record Office.
    The last two also appear in Freddy O'Connor's book "A Pub On Every Corner", Volume

    1.


    Thank you so much for this! I have only just noticed it on here....it's inspirational in this day and age that somebody can go to

    so much trouble for someone else, purely for selfless reasons....

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    "Another successful cinematographer was Mr. Monti [sic] Williams [James

    Monte], who [in 1897] on Westminster Bridge, with his Eragraph camera made by Haydon and Urry, broke all records for the Diamond Jubilee picture of Queen

    Victoria by showing it on the same night at the London Pavilion Music Hall for Mr. Felix Glenister, who had an Eragraph projector installed under the

    direction of Signor Polverina and Mr. Fred Griffiths. This film was developed and printed at Islington, and the print was dried on top of a horse-cab on its

    journey to the theatre. So great was their enthusiasm that the audience with one accord rose and sang 'God Save the Queen,' and insisted on the film being

    shown once again. This was not so simple a task as it is now; the film, after showing, was allowed to drop loosely into a basket as there were then no

    restrictions from the London County County Council. . . . A second print of this film was also made and wound upon a drying fame, and while still wet was

    dispatched by train to Liverpool, where, upon its arrival, it was shown by Mrs. Reynolds at her then famous Waxworks Show in Lime Street at 4 o'clock on the

    following morning before a large audience, which had waited all night, and after the first screening went delirious with amazement and delight. The film had

    to be shown four times." ("Filming the Diamond Jubilee: A Popular Exhibit," The Times, April 9, 1935, p 19)

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    website on Haydon and Urry Ltd., Makers of the Eragraph Projector & Suppliers to the Fairground Showmen
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    fantastic stuff!
    really grateful for your help.
    where do you get your info

    from?
    central library?

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    wow, that is so cool
    it all just

    fascinates me!
    building up quite a collection of Liverpool books myself.
    Which is great

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    I love it too. Local history is

    fascinating. I've been collecting stuff for years and have a few folders full of cuttings and pictures.
    The likes of this forum is fantastic for

    swapping info.

    Brilliant !

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    yeah the clearance centre is great
    reid of liverpool on mount pleasant is a treasure trove though! a little expensive, but well worth a treat every pay day!
    I used to do research for Liverpool Architecture and Design Trust and spend my days in the archives in central library...what an ideal job!
    I held the original book by Dr Solomon in my hands....sigh....he is another one that fascinates me.... old Balm of Gilead inventor....

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    That's OK, MissInformed.
    I've written histories of all Liverpool's cinemas, but somebody else managed to get his book published first,
    Is that 'Picture Palaces of Liverpool' by Harold Ackroyd? That's an excellent book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    1966 photo from "Ainscough's Liverpool".
    The Mardi was 212 years old when the pict was taken. It was demolished around 1974/75, being 225 years old when demolished. Criminal. Look what they put in its oplace - a multi floor car park.

    We have a multi floor car park on the 1700s Kings Dock too, and one on the quays at the early 1800s Princes Dock.

    Liverpool still has not grown up, it still has not realised that cars come way down the list. Still very third world in its outlook.
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    Does anyone have any pics of the inside of the Gaumont Cinema on Park Road?

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