Park Palace: Workmen were clearing stuff into a skip outside. They must be getting it ready for its' re-opening later in the year. Both doors were open, but the only thing I could see was a large empty hall.
Park Palace: Workmen were clearing stuff into a skip outside. They must be getting it ready for its' re-opening later in the year. Both doors were open, but the only thing I could see was a large empty hall.
It was the Prince's.Originally Posted by Alan Smithee
Originally it was called the Granby.
This is all that's left of the Bedford cinema.
The floor of the exit from the screen end.
Sad picture Philip
Park Palace plans:
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-21362955/
VICTORIA ROAD NEW BRIGHTON
HI NANCY, THE PHOTO YOU HAVE TAKEN WAS THE (TROCADERO CINEMA) IT WAS IN ITS DAY, A VERY FINE BUILDING,SAW MANY ROY ROGERS AND JOHN WAYNE FILMS THERE,FURTHER UP VICTORIA ROAD ,WALKING AWAY FROM THE RIVER WAS THE (COURT CINEMA) REGARDS
A portable Cinema is in William Brown Street. (for this weekends Childrens Festival). It's inside a cargo container.
There's supposed to be an open-air Cinema (an inflatable screen?) in St James Gardens. I think it costs £4-£6 to view. I didn't see it there this morning.
http://www.theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk/
this was in my 08 email this afternoon
From 7- 9 August the Lodestar Theatre Company bring you Liverpool's only Open Air Cinema in the stunning setting of St James' Gardens next to Liverpool Cathedral. For only £6 (conc £4), you can enjoy three films on a huge, inflatable airscreen, each with Shakespeare in mind.
On 7 August you can see John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, on 8 August Al Pacino's Looking for Richard will be screened starring Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, and on 9 August Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes. Doors open at 8pm, films start at 9pm.
For tickets call 0151 727 1703 or go into the News From Nowhere on Bold Street, or the gift shop at Liverpool Cathedral and some tickets will also be available on the door in St James' Gardens.
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the former cinema in Mere Lane was set alight last night
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance,baffle them with bull
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Out of all the former cinema sites in Liverpool, that's about the only place where I've felt uncomfortable, and that was even before there was a murder there.the former cinema in Mere Lane was set alight last night
The last time I was there I saw a lot of hoardings, so I don't know if the area is any better now.
The actual building has been altered so much (on the exterior, at least), that it's not worth photographing anymore.
Here's how it was in March 2007.
Last edited by PhilipG; 08-07-2008 at 07:54 PM.
Wow! a.k.a. my cinema memories in Liverpool
Hiya,
I've only just found this site, having started out looking for the Carling Academy in Liverpool, near the Odeon. Never realized that the Odeon on London Road was originally a single screen - I thought it was a travesty when the made it into 5 by creating a screen in what used to be the bar...
While my sister and I were growing up, my Dad worked for a firm in Toxteth called Haywards (I think that's spelled correctly) who did a lot of work for local cinemas, theatres and such like. The thing that looked like a shed on the top of the front of the Carlton for so many years through the late 70s and 1980s was put up by my Dad! Growing up, we rarely paid to get into cinemas as my Dad would just have a chat to the manager, get us in, then he and mum would be having a drink with the manager in the interval!
My Dad's favourite place to take us was the Abbey in Wavertree I think, followed by the Carlton. I think we saw The Spy Who Loved Me in the Abbey. Definitely saw Watership Down there as we got past all of the families queuing up at the front doors. My mother was mortified when we went in a side door!
Does anyone remember the manager at the Abbey being held at gunpoint in his home and then forced to hand over the takings from the theatre? I think it was about 1976 or maybe 1977? Before the Towering Inferno which was, as someone else mentioned, the final picture that the Abbey presented. A lovely theatre with a fantastic stairwell. Nearest I've seen to it since then was the one in H.H.Robertson's factory which used to be in Cromwell Road, Ellesmere Port.
At one point, the Liverpool Echo took a picture of Fred, the cat at the Forum. Not sure what the occasion was, but my sister still had a copy of the picture last time I was round at her house. At that point, it was still a single screen and both the Scala and the Futurist were still open. They had a high level walkway if I remember rightly that took you from one theatre to the other. My sister and I saw Grease at one of them when it was released in 1978.
Occasionally, we'd venture as far as Birkenhead and go to what was, by then, the Classic on Conway Street. It was rare to go there though. My grandparents went to a picture house on the other side of the road (was it the Ritz?) during the 2nd war. They were still a courting couple and decided that, rather than stay there when the sirens went off, they'd go home. They later found out the picture house had taken a direct hit. Not their time to go!
My family rarely went to the Classic in Allerton, but I remember seeing all of the first six Star Trek movies there, three on Saturday and three on Sunday, just before Generations came out. Seems a very long time ago!
Ironic that I no sooner write the above post than I flick to the first page in this thread and realize that the chaps' name that I was trying to think of, Ambler Ramsden, was mentioned in the first post.
My Dad usually referred to him as Rammey and only very occasionally by his full name.
Does anyone have any pictures of the Rialto in Toxteth as a picture house? As well as having done work in a lot of Liverpool theatres in the 1970s, he was also manager of the Rialto at one point apparently.
Wasn't he also connected with the cabbage hall picture house, talking
of which still found no pic,s of it prior to LFC supporters club
If you ever find any let me know. I would love to see any pics of the Cabbage hall.
Hi
hope you are well. I have searched everywere, all to no avail.
I remember it well as my gran worked the ticket box, but I never
ever saw any pic,s.
Steve
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