Some Liverpool Cinemas

[PhilipG]

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[Max]

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[skgogosfan]

I dunno if this is of any interest,but going past the former Derby cinema on Scotland Rd. on the bus,(the undertakers' one),I noticed some of the cladding on the south corner had vanished to reveal the original building. It's not much-but someone with a zoom lens might want a shot.

Dave.

[SteveFaragher]

I was brought up in Halewood in the 60's and 70's and so used to go the Woolton every Saturday to the kids matinee. They used to be quite wild, to the extent they had to get a policeman to walk about during the films

Went to the Majestic a couple of times it used to show films a couple of weeks after they had been on in town. Sneaked there from Halewood to see the two Dr.Who films, Very nice cinema but past its best in the 60's the seats used to give off tons of dust if you hit them.

Me mother took me to see "Help" at the Odeon in London Road, it was like going to a plush red velvet and shiny brass picture palace, a massive single screen,

Lastly the Abbey Cinerama was also magnificent, went to see the Great Race there and continued right up until it closed. It used to have cheap one off matinee on a wednesday saw Chinatown and Midnight Express. That cinema was almsot unique and we let it go.....cant believe it.

During the the end of the 70's I used to win a lot of free tickets off radio merseyside competitions (ramsey Campbell) most of them were for the 051, which sort of became an instant dump...the best worst free ticket I won was to see a 3D sex film called "what the swedish butler saw" with Diana Dors, It was a preview screening at 10.30 am, so I turned up....no one on the box office, except a big oile of 3 D specs, so I take one and wander into a darkened cinema, aware that there were a few other people in there but it was too dark to tell who they were.

The film was pretty tame too.......

[PhilipG]

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[Ged]

Billy Butler, himself a bit of a film buff who has a slot where you can request rare ones, is fielding calls about Liverpool cinemas today and has mentioned the Bedford, Liverpool's 1st.

He started his hour off appropriately with 'Saturday night at the movies' and they are running a made in Merseyside quiz this week playing excerpts from film dialogue - most quite difficult. I got the Violent playground one quite easily though - seen bits of it a lot lately.

[PhilipG]

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[Gerard]

I wish they would stop staying the Bedford was Liverpool's first purpose-built cinema.
The truth is, it was a draw between the Bedford and the Kensington Picturedrome.
They were both licensed at the same time, and the Kensington was opened on 26 December 1910, but the actual opening day of the Bedford is not known, despite Harold Ackroyd's claim that it was Boxing Day, 1908.

Harold Ackroyd !!!..Rrrrrr Phils the Daddy..

[PhilipG]

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[Ged]

Phil. Another view of The Derby, taken when Wilbraham House tenements were still up. You can also see St. Anthony's Church and the Vernon's building. I am reliably informed by someone connected with project Jennifer that the Derby is coming down and that's why John Coyne has now moved to the Panda Alarm building along Stanley road, not far from his bro Peter who's in the old Grosvenor. Apparently Central Tin cannisters (situated behind the Derby, further down Wilbraham st are holding out for a better deal)

Feel free to use the pic as you like.

[Ged]

Oh, and here's the pic - silly me.

[PhilipG]

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[Ged]

Yep, will let you know as soon as I do.

[marky]

Lyceum, Garston. The previous colour was a garish yellow/blue combination.

[Ged]

The romance comedy The Mating Game, released the previous October is showing starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall. The David Lewis building is in the background.