Some Liverpool Cinemas

[steveb]

You're welcome, Steve.
What list is that?

Your photo is quite old.
When was it taken?

The photo is around 1984. Iam trying to find details/photo,s of all the
old Liverpool cinemas, some buildings as you know look like cinemas, but
wern't. I live just off Townsend Ave and there are a good few old cinema
buildings by me, Taskers, Regal Broadway and the one, now a childrens
play place on Townsend ,think it was the Clubmoor, no pic,s of this though
as a cinema....

[Ged]

Some of those Bethel churches and the like look like cinemas but weren't.

[PhilipG]

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[steveb]

Have you seen my sets on my flickr page. (see link below).
There's "Demolished cinemas" which are my photos taken of former cinemas that went after 1982. I think that's almost complete.

And there's "Former cinemas - still with us". That's far from complete.

Is it that you just want to take photos of the remaining buildings?
I'll make out a list of addresses.
Or........?

OK if you could make a list maybe on my travels I could re photo them.
Idealy I would love pic,s of when they were cinema,s, tall order. I have
the usual stuff from LRO but a lot of small cinema,s were never archived.
Plenty of time, so no rush

[PhilipG]

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[Ged]

I drive past loads of former cinemas on my travels but I assumed you had them all Phil. If you or Steve want me to take any on the Litherland, Bootle, Kirkdale, Anfield route, i'm always down that way each weekend and lots of times even further afield.

[Ged]

Phil, it's a long shot but worked for me looking for my stuff now and again.

There are lots of aerial photos of Liverpool taken in the 1930s. You can usually zoom in on these once saved, have to tried looking for any that way?

[PhilipG]

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[steveb]

Steve, in this thread, there's a list of cinemas that I've never seen photos of.
Page 8. Post 152.
And it gets even more difficult finding photos of any when they were actually operating as cinemas, apart from the 1930s super cinemas.

Had a look and it is pretty much what Iam after. The Ritz Utting Ave
now Taskers Sports, I will contact Taskers t o see if they have any
pix prior to them altering the front. The Clubmoor Piture House Townsend Ave
not see any of it as a cinema, Cabbage Hall arggggg, the pain of my life, spent ages all to no avail looking for a pic as a cinema, tried all over, LRO
LFC, planing dept, cinema treasures, etc, etc. Only one on I think it is
Smithdown is this

[steveb]

I drive past loads of former cinemas on my travels but I assumed you had them all Phil. If you or Steve want me to take any on the Litherland, Bootle, Kirkdale, Anfield route, i'm always down that way each weekend and lots of times even further afield.

Thanks for the offer, but it is OK as I have pic,s of what most look like
now, it is the oldies when they were open as cinemas, thanks again

[PhilipG]

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[steveb]

That thumbnail is the New Premier Cinema in Prescot Road, near Green Lane.
That photo was dated 1959, just after it closed as a cinema.
The building is now one of Liverpool's official grot spots.
All the front was demolished and it became a pub called the Premier.

I haven't seen any photos of the Ritz as a cinema.
The Clubmoor appeared in a local paper when it was new, so I took a photo of the microfilm screen.
I've got it on a disk somewhere & I'll post it when I find it.

If Taskers do have any pics of the Ritz, ask them if they've got any of the Capitol in Overton Street, Wavertree, as they built a new building on that site.

OK will do, yes went past the premier the other day a right mess.

[PhilipG]

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[steveb]

Thanks Phil
I remember the Clubmoor now, I was 12 in 1960 and lived up the road
in Winchester Rd. 1960 seems to be the year most Liverpool cinemas
closed down. Have been in touch with Taskers, so will let you know
the outcome. My avatar is the new toy, a Fuji S9500 9Mp with 28 to 300
zoom and macro that works down to 1CM

[PhilipG]

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