Some Liverpool Cinemas

PhilipG · 02-27-2008

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**quincyg** · 02-27-2008

Originally Posted by PhilipG

The Princess was one of the few Liverpool cinemas to make it into a national architectural journal.
(They were too posh to call themselves magazines!).
Here's a picture from the Architectural Review when the Princess was new in 1931.
It went over to bingo in 1966 and closed a few years ago.
It's a rare example of a cinema having two show facades because it faced two roads - Selwyn Street and Brewster Road (or Street?).

Shoemarket was the Aintree Palace, and the cinema foyer done up like a station booking office was the Trocadero/Gaumont in Camden Street.
It's a Stewart Bale photo, and was issued as a postcard.

I usually have a book to hand with all my notes in, but I don't know where it is at the moment, so everything I've just said is from memory.

great Philip, thanks for the info. Knew you'd come up with the goods. Superb picture of the Princess. Shame it doesn't look as good as that now. Still at least it's not been demolished.

I've found a good pic of the Abbey in one of my Liverpool books. will scan it when I've found a few others to be done.

DaisyChains · 02-28-2008

Originally Posted by Ged

That was the Shakespeare (Fraser st) I think and it's in a book I have done up like that. The picture house in Camden street was the Gaumont.

sorry guys. i was relying on memory!

**quincyg** · 02-28-2008

(Prescot Rd/Green Lane)
took this today.

**gregs dad** · 02-28-2008

Had my first date in the Princess cinema with my missus on the 1st January
1956 and we having our golden wedding this year. I can`t remember what we saw.

**quincyg** · 02-28-2008

Originally Posted by gregs dad

Had my first date in the Princess cinema with my missus on the 1st January
1956 and we having our golden wedding this year. I can`t remember what we saw.

just how it should be.

congrats!

**quincyg** · 02-29-2008

after a frustrating evening with scanner and Photobucket finally got this uploaded

The Abbey in 1979 just after it closed. from 'Images of England - Wavertree'

loved the Abbey, it was my local cinema and I saw my very first film there, a re-run of Mary Poppins.

PhilipG · 03-01-2008

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DaisyChains · 03-02-2008

Originally Posted by PhilipG

One of the best cinema facades in Merseyside.
But it's been demolished.

The Astoria, Walton Road.

was this listed Philip?

PhilipG · 03-02-2008

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PhilipG · 03-03-2008

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**quincyg** · 03-03-2008

what a fabulous pic. I was there just last week taking a photo of the old Dunlop gatehouse and the side of the pub. It's very different along there now, not least the traffic

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**taffy** · 03-03-2008

Has anyone any info about this cinema which was sited in Heald St

**quincyg** · 03-05-2008

Future of cinema in the balance

Mar 5 2008 by Nick Coligan, Liverpool Echo

THE future of Liverpool’s oldest cinema building is still uncertain after councillors failed to reach a final decision.

The current owner of Bedford Hall, in Walton, wants to demolish it and build 26 houses and flats in its place.

Councillors were expected to reject the scheme yesterday on the grounds it would cause the loss of “a local amenity of great historic interest”.

But they instead deferred making a final decision to give the owner one last chance to incorporate the Bedford Road building’s classic frontage into the new development.

A previous request was rejected earlier this year.

The building was opened in 1910 and is one of the five oldest survivors of its type in the country.