Some Liverpool Cinemas

[PhilipG]

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[Gnomie]

Brilliant pic phil. i never saw it like that.

American werewolf . cool

[PhilipG]

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[scouserdave]

Great pic of The Carlton, Phil. It was our local despite living in Canny. Never called it the ABC, so I reckon The Carlton name just stuck after 1963. Can't remember the last film I saw there, I was in London by the time American Werewolf in London came out. Most memorable film I saw in The Carlton was Clockwork Orange, not only for the subject matter, but also because I had my first Kentucky Fried Chicken meal afterwards, purchased nearby on West Derby Road.

[drone_pilot]

The Futurist as she is today.

[Gnomie]

Nice pic Drone

I heard all that block is to be knocked down. is this true? if so what are they putting there.

[PhilipG]

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[Felicity]

I came upon this website and thread earlier today (or was it yesterday now!) and have found myself saddened as well as delighted to hear people talking about the wonderful picturehouses that used to populate our fabulous (!?) city! It seems amazing to me that so little interest is shown by the powers that be (oh how we hate and despise them.............) in these extraordinary places of specific community and public importance. I know that the age of the tv has altered the way that we see films, along with the advent of the video and now the dvd, but even so, surley they are more than worth celebrating and preserving for historic as well as architectural reasons?

I remember the Hippodrome, and the cinemas on Aigburth Road so well, as well as the Gaumont in Dingle, and I seem to remember there was one in Garston?

Also, the mention of the Tatler was special, as when I was a child of course I was not allowed to go there........ Then there was the Palladium on Fraser Street, now the Bar de Mille. I remember my mother and father going to see a "significant" Brigitte Bardot x-rated film there, I think it was "And God Created Woman", and after mother telling me how sad she was I wasn't allowed to go with them, because the support was a film of Picasso painting on glass viewed from below so you saw the whole process! I eventually saw it about 20 something years later, after I had been to Art College - it is stunning!

I haven't seen any mention of the cinemas on Walton Road. Have I missed it by skimming through the thread or does noone remember the Astoria near Everton Valley, (which was only knocked down about two years ago, I think???), and the Victoria, I think it was, on the other side further along towards Spellow Lane, and there was another one, the name of which is escaping me at the moment.

Although I was brought up in Speke, my grandparents lived off Walton Lane and the three cinemas on Walton Road were regular haunts of my childhood.

Anyone know anything about them?

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[PhilipG]

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[Felicity]

Hi Philip,

Thank you for that. It's funny but as woke up this morning, I thought "the other one was the Queens"!! And there is your reply with it in!

No, I wasn't thinking of the Tatler. What was the one on one of the other streets off London Road, linked to the Continental on the Wirral - think it had been a theatre too, started by a famous British actor?? If I don't think about it it will come back to me!

Felicity

[Ged]

Felicity. You're either thinking of the Shakespeare theatre, Fraser Street or the Gaumont, Camden street.

[PhilipG]

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[DaisyChains]

this is a brilliant thread.

I have a photo somewhere of the opening night of the film 'The Ghost Train' starring Arthur Askey, and I am sure it is the Odeon Cinema on London Road, I can't remember now.

I will get it up in the next few days.

[Gerard]

Hello Felicity and welcome to the forum.

If you follow the link to my flickr page, below, you'll see a set of "Demolished Cinemas" and a set of "Former Cinemas: Still with us" where some of the ones you mention are featured.
However, I haven't got photos of either the Queens or the Victory (both in Walton Road).
I think you've got the building in Fraser Street mixed up with the Tatler in London Road.
The Fraser Street building was only offices for the Paramount Film Company.

The Paramount building on Fraser St..Now a Kurdish restaraunt.
This photo was taken on the site of the Gaumont picture house on Camden St.

[Gerard]

The Odeon London Rd.
This was taken outside what was the Gaumont main entrance on Camden St.