Album Cinemas from tarboat

Picturedrome

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:12:39 +0000

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Art deco cinema architecture. The Picturedrome cinema in Eastbourne first opened its doors on 21st December 1920 and almost made its centenary before closing as the Curzon in summer 2020.

Picturedrome

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:42:07 +0000

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The Picturedrome in Holmfirth built 1912-13 by the firm of Messrs. Hawthorne & King of Coxton House, Mirfield, and was opened on Easter Monday, March 1st 1913 as the Holme Valley Theatre. It was designed as both theatre and cinema, seating 1040 people; 240 in the balcony and 800 downstairs. The name was initially announced as the Hippodrome, but it was referred to as both the Holme Valley Theatre and the Holmfirth Electric Picturedrome in early newspaper reports. Closure as a cinema came in September 1967 and it reopened as a bingo hall from December 1967 until 1993. Today the Picturedrome is a prominent, refurbished music venue with a capacity of approximately 650, featuring a stage and dance floor.

Super Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:54:04 +0000

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The Longford Super Cinema at Stretford opened on 12th October 1936. The art deco design was by architect Harry Elder. The 2,000 seat cinema closed in 1965 and was subsequently used as a bingo hall and club.It has been disused since 1995 and awaits a new use. It is listed Grade II.

The Orient

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:18:23 +0000

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The Orient cinema in Ayr was designed by Albert Gardner and opened in 1932. It was designed in the 'atmospheric' manner, with a moorish inspired tower as the focal point of the facade. After nightclub use it has been abandoned for many years.

The Picture House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:41:09 +0000

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Terracotta faience on the old Picture House cinema on Oxford Street in Manchester. The lower frontage has been disfigured by conversion to a Macdonalds eatery.

Naylor and Sale were the architects of what was one of the first purpose-built cinemas in the city centre. It was opened in 1911 by the Provincial Cinematography Theatres Company who called all their nationwide circuit of cinemas 'Picture House'. The PCT circuit was taken over by Gaumont in 1929 but this Picture House was taken over by an independent two years later and it was renamed the New Oxford. In 1960 it was taken over by Rank and it was closed in 1980.

Hanley Odeon

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:22:08 +0000

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Former Odeon cinema on the corner of Trinity St and Foundry St, Hanley. This was formerly the site of the Grand Theatre which burned down in 1932. The replacement cinema opened as The Odeon in 1937 and ran until 1975. It was subsequently used as a warehouse during the 1980s, when it suffered minor fire damage and then lay derelict for many years. In 1999 it was converted for use as licensed premises, and was last trading as the Boston Bar. It is now disused again. The buff terracotta faience survives, but the effect of the tower with the glazed top has been lost due to the tall building being constructed alongside.

The Picture House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:21:53 +0000

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The Picture House in Stafford was built as a cinema for local independent exhibitor Walter Goodall and opened on 23rd February 1914. It closed on 30th March 1995 and has since been converted to a Wetherspoon public house. In November 2012, the Picture House was equipped with a HD projection screen and began to screen films on Wednesday evenings with a different theme each month. The building is Grade II listed.

The two towers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 05:42:20 +0000

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The towers of the former Trinity Methodist Church and Carnegie Arts Centre dominate Lismore Place in Workington. The church retains only the tower and facade with the main building replaced by a new structure containing assisted living flats. The Carnegie Theatre and Arts Centre is one of Workington's much-loved buildings. The Foundation Stone for the 'Carnegie Free Library & Lecture Hall' was laid by his Worship The Mayor, Alderman R E Highton on Thursday 10 September 1903. The building opened on Thursday 6 October 1904 following a donation of £7,500 from Andrew Carnegie. It is now run by a charitable trust.

Hippodrome

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 21 May 2022 06:25:47 +0000

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The Bristol Hippodrome was designed by the renowned Theatre architect, Frank Matcham for Oswald Stoll, and was second only in size and grandeur to his London Coliseum, also designed by Frank Matcham in 1904. It opened on the 16th of December 1912. The Theatre's main entrance was constructed on the site of the former Smith & Co Furnishers shop. The frontage has been rebuilt at some point, possibly when the Hippodrome operated as a cinema in the 1930s.

Regal

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:50:55 +0000

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These days the Regal is an independent 3 auditorium cinema and theatre located in the heart of Stowmarket, Suffolk. Opened in 1936 as a 566-seat cinema for VEH Cinemas Ltd it saw many successful years, but by 1972 it was facing closure. The former Stowmarket Urban District Council stepped in to save the day and ownership was transferred to Stowmarket Town Council. Since then there have been several refurbishments, particularly after a major fire in 2009.

Regent Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:59:15 +0000

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Redcar's Regent Cinema opened as a music hall, the Pavilion, in 1928, and was where Larry Grayson, performing under stage name Billy Breen, coined his "shut that door" catchphrase.

It closed in 2018 due to structural damage to the building and was demolished in November 2020. A new cinema is under construction on this seafront site. The new three screen cinema is expected to open in spring 2022.

The Kings' lion

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:18:13 +0000

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This magnificent beast is found on the top of the former Kings Theatre on Trinity Street in Gainsborough. Opened as the Albert Hall in 1885 it was renamed the Royal Albert Hall in 1891 and screened the first films in the town in December 1896. By 1909 it was a cinema named the Kings Theatre and since then has had mixed fortunes. Repertory and variety theatre replaced films in 1958 and then bingo from 1992. Bingo ended in 2015 and the building has since been renovated but remains empty.

Empire

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:11:40 +0000

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The Empire Cinema was the first purpose built cinema in Carnarfon, opened in 1915. The cinema held one show nightly with three on Saturdays, no shows on Sunday, at prices ranging from 3d to 1/3d. It made the transition to the sound era in 1930 with a British Acoustic sound system.

In the early-1930’s it changed ownership to Capt. W.E. Pritchard who went on to develop a small chain of cinemas in Pwllheli, Porthmadog, Pen y Groes, Criccieth and Blaenau Festiniog, and his partner in Caernarfon E.H. Jonathan. In 1945, following the death of Capt. Pritchard Guy Baker’s Paramount Picture Theatres purchased the Empire Cinema from the Pritchard family and in 1956 installed Cinemascope when the seating capacity was reduced to 478 to cope with the new lines of sight.

A bingo licence was acquired in the early-1970’s and film shows were reduced to 4 nights per week. Eventually bingo took over completely and in 1986, following the death of Guy Baker, Apollo Leisure took over the hall, refurbished it and today film shows are but a distant memory.

Information from the cinema treasures website:
cinematreasures.org/theaters/31696

Palladium Picture House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:44:21 +0000

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When I saw this empty property on Kirkgate in Ripon I immediately thought that it must have been a cinema. The cinema treasures website soon yielded the background.

The Palladium Picture House was opened in early-March 1916. It was originally an old coach house, which had been converted into a cinema, parts of the walls of the earlier building were incorporated.

The Palladium Picture House was closed in 1936, and was rebuilt to the plans of Nottingham based architect Reginald W.G. Cooper, in an Art Deco style. It had 910 seats in stalls and circle. There was also a 30-foot deep stage behind the 30-foot wide proscenium arch, and there were three dressing rooms. Variety was sometimes presented. The facade was executed in a fashionable streamlined Art Deco manner which, it has to be said, does not blend in with the rest of Kirkgate. It was later controlled by a Leeds company Associated Tower Cinemas Ltd. that controlled the Lounge Cinema and Cottage Road Cinema in Leeds.

The Palladium Cinema closed in 1982 with Clint Eastwood in 'Firefox', and was converted into a nightclub, in 2002 known as Sly’s and by 2009 Matrix. It was closed 31st December 2015.

Filmpalast

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 07:30:53 +0000

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Filmpalast Neue Zeit in the German town of Nordhausen.

Under the cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 06:36:18 +0000

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The Brookfield Cinema in Poynton opened in 1938 and closed as a cinema in 1957. Subsequently it was used as a car repair workshop, restaurant, gym, and club, but most of these did not last long. At the rear of the building was the engine room which had housed two Russell Newbery engines to drive the dynamos to supplying the mercury arc rectifiers for the projector lamps. The engines were rescued by the nearby Anson Engine Museum and the space was then used to store oil tanks and dispensers which are seen here mainly standing on the old engine beds. In the far corner as the galvanised tanks that held cooling water for the engines.

The building was demolished soon after this photo was taken in 2015 and an Aldi shop now stands on the site.

Palace Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 06:39:58 +0000

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The original cinema on this site in Southall was the Paragon Palace of 1912 which was taken over by the United Picture Theatres Ltd. chain in around 1928, with the view to demolish it and build a brand new cinema.

Architect George Coles was appointed the circuit’s architect and UPT gave him the commission to design the first new cinema for the circuit (all the other cinemas were takeovers of older cinemas and theatres). The Palace Cinema was built in 1929 on an enlarged site of the former Paragon Palace Cinema, and it opened on 30th November 1929. Unfortunately, UPT overstretched their finances and the company were taken over by the Gaumont British Theatres Ltd. chain in April 1930 and they operated the Palace Cinema from July 1930.

The cinema’s style in the form of a Chinese temple is unique in Britain. Its exotic tiled exterior with a red pagoda roof complete with dragons have long made the cinema a well-loved local landmark. Inside the building, the Chinese style continues, but a little more restrained. The terracotta faience and decorative features are the work of the Hathern Station Brick and Terra Cotta Company. It is listed Grade II*.

After a number of owners and names it closed as the Liberty Cinema in 1982 and was converted to an indoor market. In 2001 it reopened as a three screen cinema but this failed in 2010 and was converted back to a market.

The Theatre

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:29:44 +0000

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Berwick’s second cinema opened for business at the start of February 1928. As its name suggested, The Theatre, at the upper end of Hide Hill, was designed to allow both film and stage performances and it also incorporated a café. A sound system was installed in Summer 1929. The last film was shown here in January 1969. The building was subsequently a nightclub and a bingo hall before being redeveloped to house a combination of a restaurant, a shop, and residential accommodation.

Coliseum

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 20:05:33 +0000

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Converted from a skating rink and opened in 1911 as the largest cinema in Edinburgh. Run jointly as a cinema and ballroom (Palais de Dance). Closed as a cinema in 1942. Later converted to a bingo/social club. Now demolished.

Breadalbane Cinema

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:19:53 +0000

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This was built as the Breadalbane Hall which opened 1911 and later became a cinema run by the Caledonian Associated Cinemas Limited. It was seriously damaged by fire in 1933 and internally rebuilt 1935-6. Cinema use ceased in the 1960s and it later became the Dounreay Social Club. The building has been abandoned for some years and is suffering serious deterioration.