thanks for posting the picture of the Cameo I used to live in Webster Rd until I was 5Originally Posted by PhilipG
If colour photos of the Cameo are rare, I've decided to identify this one as mine.
Which is something I don't usually do.
Webster Road, Liverpool 7.
Photo: March 1986.
Built 1887 as a Welsh Chapel.
Converted 1926 into a cinema.
Closed 1957.
Warehouse.
Disused.
Demolished sometime before 1991.
Housing built on the site.
Mandy
Haven't been on for a few days Phil so just catching up on this thread. Like the others on here, I second them, get that book out. If it's half as good as your Tram Ride to Dingle then that'll do me and at least we know we'll be getting facts.
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Last edited by PhilipG; 03-19-2008 at 10:17 PM.
Brilliant pic PhilipIf colour photos of the Cameo are rare, I've decided to identify this one as mine.
Which is something I don't usually do.
Webster Road, Liverpool 7.
Photo: March 1986.
Built 1887 as a Welsh Chapel.
Converted 1926 into a cinema.
Closed 1957.
Warehouse.
Disused.
Demolished sometime before 1991.
Housing built on the site.
I think colour photos of the Cameo ARE rare. I have never seen another pic of the cinema other than the normal b and w one usually printed/shown.
A developer has recently been granted planning permission to demolish the later 70's addition to the cinema which you can see on the right hand side of the original building (formerly the venue nightclub). They have planning permision to build three blocks containing around 50 apartments and some shops on the ground floor.The Carlton opened in 1932.
Architect: A E Shennan.
Renamed ABC Tuebrook in 1963.
From 1980 to 1982 it was independently run and was renamed the Carlton, but closed suddenly in December 1982.
An ABC Bowling Alley had been built next door, and the rear stalls of the cinema was converted into a Painted Wagon pub (both in the 1960s).
Apart from the pub (now Lords), the rest of the complex is now derelict.
April 1982.
The good news is that there are rumours that the same developer wants to buy the cinema, restore it and convert it into apartments! Far better than it just being left to rot.
Phil/AK1 - was this called something to do with wagon wheels or paint your wagon or something similar in the late 70s/early 80s - I remember passing it going to Millbank College up the road.
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Last edited by PhilipG; 03-19-2008 at 10:17 PM.
Yeah it was Ged.
Anyway, the pub changed it's name to 'The Lord Warden' (I think that's the right name - it's Lord something or other.)
The Venue club on the other side - Green lane - was originally a bowling alley - I used to go occasionally when I was a kid.
Then it got changed into a night club - 'The Coconut Grove' which was a cabaret club in a similar style to The Wookey Hollow.
Yes you are correct, I also went to the bowling alley. I heard a rumourYeah it was Ged.
Anyway, the pub changed it's name to 'The Lord Warden' (I think that's the right name - it's Lord something or other.)
The Venue club on the other side - Green lane - was originally a bowling alley - I used to go occasionally when I was a kid.
Then it got changed into a night club - 'The Coconut Grove' which was a cabaret club in a similar style to The Wookey Hollow.
that the Carlton is still owned by EMI, and as the pub is part of it, the building
inside the cinema maybe in good(ish) condition...
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Last edited by PhilipG; 03-19-2008 at 10:18 PM.
The Venue had a notice (Feb 2007) which stated...Acquired by SABP LTD for future development.
The house next to the venue which used to be a youth hostel has been completely gutted. I hope it's not being demolished. Anyone got any pics?
Is the weatherspoons pub in Kensington realy a Cinema
Last edited by drone_pilot; 04-13-2007 at 05:35 PM.
That looks like a fine building and shows that i've been dricing with my eyes closed
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Last edited by PhilipG; 03-19-2008 at 10:19 PM.
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