CINEMAS used to be EVERYWHERE
Before the rise of home video, cinemas used to be everywhere with many showtimes. I had many movie theaters near me in Staffordshire and with the help of a book by Barry Blaize called The Lost Empire: Picture Houses of the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyme I attempt to see if any of the old cinema buildings are still standing. I'll be also looking at old movie showtimes pics to see what films were showing back then and my memories of going to see those screenings.
► Cinemas mentioned in this video
☆ Hanley
The Palace Cinema
The Regent
ABC Cine-bowl
The Odeon
☆ Etruia
ODEON Stoke, Festival Park
☆ Tunstall
► Barber's Picture Palace
In 1929, the building was extended, with a new foyer added on the side, and the facade of the Palace Cinema was modernised in an Art Deco style. The seating capacity was increased to 1,200 with the addition of a circle. It screened its first ‘talkie’ “Smiling Irish Eyes” on 6th January 1930.
CinemaScope was installed and the first film to be screened in this process was Howard Keel “Rose Marie” on 29th November 1954. The Palace Cinema was closed on 5th March 1966 with Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me”.
It was converted into a Surewin Bingo Club by the Hutchinson Group of Burnley, Lancashire. In 1978 they converted the former circle into a twin screen cinema with seating provided for 102 where Kris Kistopherson in “Convoy” was screened, and 100 where John Travolta in “Grease” was screened. The bingo club continued to operate in the former stalls area, and the building was known as the Palace Entertainment Centre.
☆ Newcastle-under-lyme
The Rex and Rio
The Savoy Cinema
The Vue (Formerly Warner Village)
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► The Best Retro Home Cinema In The World ( ABC Cinema ) Tour
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► The Green Cross Code Man
The Green Cross Man is a costumed superhero character created in 1970 as an aid to teaching young children the Green Cross Code, and for promoting general road safety. British actor David Prowse MBE, best known for playing Darth Vader in Star Wars, played the character in a series of Public Information Films (PIFs) sponsored by the Central Office of Information for the UK Department of the Environment. The light-hearted spots ran on UK television from 1975 to 1990.
In the films, Green Cross Man has the power to teleport from his monitoring station at Green Cross Control to any location where children are in need of pedestrian safety instruction. He accomplishes this by use of a wristwatch-like dematerialiser device.
► Staffordshire
Sometimes abbreviated to Staffs is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England. It adjoins Cheshire to the north west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the south east, West Midlands and Worcestershire to the south, and Shropshire to the west.
The largest city in Staffordshire is Stoke-on-Trent, which is administered separately from the rest of the county as an independent unitary authority. Lichfield also has city status, although this is a considerably smaller cathedral city. Major towns include Stafford (the county town), Burton upon Trent, Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leek, and Tamworth. Smaller towns include Stone, Uttoxeter, and Rugeley, and large villages Eccleshall, Wombourne, Kinver, Penkridge, Tutbury and Stretton. Cannock Chase AONB is within the county as well as parts of the National Forest and the Peak District national park.
Apart from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is divided into the districts of Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth.
► Book featured in this video
The Lost Empire: The Picture Houses of the Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyme
ISBN-10: 1871528070
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Film 303 Squadron w kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii
Film 303 Squadron ( w Polsce - Dywizjon 303. Historia prawdziwa ), od 9 listopada tego roku, będzie wyświetlany w ponad 100 kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii. Ta polska megaprodukcja, pod angielskim tytułem 303 Squadron, będzie zawierała wiele nowych dodatkowych scen, których nie było w wersji filmu, pokazywanego w Polsce, od sierpnia tego roku.
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Reżyseria - Denis Delić
Produkcja - Jacek Samojłowicz
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303 Squadron od piątku w kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii
w kinach ODEON w Londynie:
GREENWICH
HAYMARKET
HOLLOWAY
LEE VALLEY
KINGSTONE
WIMBLEDON
STREATHAM
UXBRIDGE THE CHIMES
WHITELEY,
oraz innych:
AYLESBURY
BASINGSTOKE
BELFAST
BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM BROADWAY PLAZA
BLACKPOOL
BOURNEMOUTH
BRACKNELL
BRAEHEAD
BRISTOL
BRIGHTON
CARDIFF
CHATHAM
COLCHESTER
COVENTRY SKYDOME
CREWE
DARLINGTON
DERBY
DUDLEY
DUNDEE (Douglas Field)
DUNFERMLINE
EDINBURGH LOTHIAN RD
EDINBURGH WEST (Wester Hailes)
EXETER
GLASGOW QUAY
GUILDFORD
HATFIELD
HEREFORD
HUDDERSFIELD
KETTERING
LEEDS-BRADFORD
LEICESTER
LINCOLN
LIVERPOOL ONE
LIVERPOOL SWITCH ISLAND
LLANELLI
LOUGHBOROUGH
MAIDENHEAD
MAIDSTONE
MANCHESTER GREAT NORTHERN
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METROCENTRE
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NEWARK
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STILLORGAN
STOKE-ON-TRENT
SWANSEA
TAMWORTH
TAUNTON
TELFORD
TRAFFORD CENTRE
TROWBRIDGE
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
WARRINGTON
WEST BROMWICH
WESTON SUPER MARE
WORCESTER
WREXHAM
SAVOY
NOTTINGHAM
WORKSOP
BOSTON
CORBY
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Movie Palaces #121 - The ODEON THEATRE CREWE Cheshire - 1937
Movie Palaces #121 - The Odeon Theatre, Delamere Street, Crewe, Cheshire was opened on Monday 26th July 1937.
The architect was Harry Weedon assisted by Budge Reid. 1229 seats were provided in a stadium plan, and the theatre cost £30,034.
Sadly this excellent example of a Harry Weedon Odeon was demolished c1983.
Urban Exploring: ABC Cinema Liverpool
Urban Exploring the ABC Theatre in Liverpool city centre.
Catch photos of my adventures on: Instagram.com/Joetry or VoyeurClub.co.uk
1,032 car parking spaces for Stafford town centre
133 portal units comprising two columns and a beam cast as a single unit have significantly reduced the erection time due to less crane lifts and a major reduction in on site jointing operations.
Apart from enabling a faster erection programme, the portal units, manufactured to tight tolerances, improved the overall quality of the project with improved accuracy of fit. The reduction in lifting operations and on site work activity also improved the overall safety on site.
Savoy Cinema Memories - Frozen in Time - Cinema from 1927 - Exploring an Abandoned Movie Theater
A look at the old Savoy Cinema building in Newcastle under Lyme. Filmed August 2014.
The Savoy Cinema (originally called the Kings Hall) was Newcastle’s first ever purpose-built picture house and opened on the 10th of February 1910 with a three part epic adventure movie called Monte Cristo. In 1913 the Kings Hall was considered to be the most luxurious cinema in the whole of the Midlands and also the largest it could host over 1000 people for film screenings.
The entrance to the Cinema was via a arcade 13 feet wide and 100 feet long and once inside it comprised of two tiers, the lower tier had a feeling of extra luxury as 300 of the seats were gold coloured tip up style. In 1927 under owner A.S. Hine renovations to the Cinema were completed and the projection equipment was brought right up to date. Mr. Hine then renamed the Kings Hall as the Savoy Cinema and re-opened it on Monday 28th February 1927.
In the 1930s the Savoy became part of the ABC (associated British Picture Corporation LTD) but later closed in 1964 and became a Bingo Hall. But in 1973 students of local high School Called the Edward Orme School organised a petition and got over 4,000 signatures to get the Cinema reopened. Seeing the local demand for a Cinema promoted the owners of the Savoy to use part of the building for a new 200 seater studio cinema at a cost of £55,000. The new smaller version of the Savoy was opened in December 1975. During the 1980s the cinema’s attendance struggled due to the rise of home video and eventually closed in the early 1990s.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal settlement in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is part of North Staffordshire. In the 2011 census the town had a population of 75,125. The Newcastle part of the name derives from being the location of a new castle in the 12th century. The Lyme section could refer to the Lyme Brook or the extensive Forest of Lyme that covered the area with lime trees in the Middle Ages. The well-known Berlin street Unter den Linden is a cognate of 'under-Lyme'
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Ghosts of the Odeon
Chester's 1936 Art Deco Odeon cinema closed in 2007, and has stood empty ever since.
In the next few years it will be redeveloped as part of the RE:NEW project, transforming it into a new Cultural Centre in the heart of the city.
Chat Noir Productions, as members of the Chester Film Co-op were invited to make a short film inside the derelict building.
Ghosts of the Odeon follows a young boy around the site, as he meets the characters of the films he loves.
ABC Cinema Westover
The Westover Super Cinema was built for and operated by Associated British Cinemas (ABC), and was designed by their ‘in-house’ architect William Riddle Glen. It opened on 19th June 1937 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance.
ABC CINEMAS ABC MINORS ORIIGINAL SONG
The year is around 1968. The place is your local ABC cinema. The venue - the ABC Minors Childrens Matinee, to which thousands of grateful parents dispatched their little brats with 1/- worth (5p!!) of pocket money that was a small price to pay for a peaceful Saturday morning! First up was the famous ABC Minors song, which complete with lyrics flashed on the screen with a bouncing ball projected from an old carbon arc lamp and slide lantern !
We are the boys and girls all known as..
Minors of the ABC...
And every Saturday all line up...
To see the films we like and shout aloud with glee..
We like to laugh and have our sing-song...
Such a happy crowd are wee..eeeee
We're all pals together...
We're Minors of the ABC.
After this thoroughly rousing number, the cinema's manger (or, most likely, the hapless assistant manager!) would host some obligatory birthday singing and talent shows along the lines of skipping contests culminating in a hail of flying objects from the kids in the audience!
All the British ABC cinemas have either been demolished or changed to the Odeon brand but, miraculously, an original 45rpm record was rescued from the projection room of a cinema being demolished which takes me back to the simpler childhood days of Saturday morning fun at the local ABC Sidcup cinema. Enjoy!
Movie Palaces #32 - REGAL/UNION/ABC Cinema Kingston - 1932
Movie Palaces #32 - A visit to the beautiful 1932 REGAL/UNION/ABC Cinema at Kingston-on-Thames.
This theatre was associated with County Cinemas, the ill-fated Union Cinema Company and then Associated British Cinemas.
The theatre contained an excellent and much recorded Wurlitzer. Commentary by Tony Moss.
Cinema Adverts of the 1960's Part 2 of 2
Part two of a selection of 35mm cinema adverts kindly provided by David Rayner, former projectionist at the Plaza, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Thanks again David.
PS - I do believe thats Terry Scott's voiceover in the Kia-Ora Suncrush Ads ?!?!
Jackson's Corner to The Manor, Crewe Road
Jackson's Corner, Crewe Road, via Wells Green to The Manor, Nantwich Road, Crewe, by car.
Ritz/ABC Cinema, Muswell Hill
The much-loved and missed Ritz/ABC Cinema in Muswell Hill, closed in January 1978. Grateful acknowledgement to Compton Lodge Studios for their excellent footage and Ralph Stephenson and Dukashenka for use of their Flickr photos.
Places to see in ( Sandbach - UK )
Places to see in ( Sandbach - UK )
Sandbach is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The civil parish contains four settlements; Sandbach itself, Elworth, Ettiley Heath and Wheelock.
Sandbach is perhaps best known as the original home of Foden and ERF lorries, though neither company now exists in the town, 12-times National Brass Band Championship winners Foden's Band, the ancient Saxon Sandbach Crosses, and Sandbach services on the M6 motorway.
The distance from London to Sandbach is 171 miles (275 km). The nearest large town is Crewe, which is 6 miles (10 km) to the south-west by road and can be reached either via the A534 Wheelock/Haslington bypass or via Winterley and Haslington. The nearest city is Stoke-on-Trent in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire, approximately 15 miles (24 km) away by road. The town is served by the M6 motorway, junction 17 and Sandbach Station on the Crewe to Manchester mainline.
The Sandbach Crosses are an important historical feature on the cobbled market square: the two Saxon crosses, reportedly built in the 7th, 8th or 9th century, constitute a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Sandbach is also home to many listed buildings, including Sandbach School, St Mary's Church and the Old Hall Hotel. Many of the local public houses, which were formerly stage coach stops, are listed, for example the Lower Chequer. Many of the buildings of the town were designed by the renowned architect Sir George Gilbert Scott; he designed Sandbach Literary Institution, Sandbach School, St John's, Sandbach Heath and the Almshouses. He also restored St Mary's Church. The town has Methodist, Baptist, Anglican and Catholic churches.
Sandbach is probably best known as the original home of both Foden and ERF lorries, both companies founded by members of the Foden family. Neither company now exists in Sandbach, having been taken over and production moved elsewhere. As of 2007 there is no trace of Fodens within Sandbach, with the former mansion home of the Foden family at Westfields being demolished to make way for a new council building. However, Foden's Brass Band, originally created for employees, is still based in Sandbach.
The town is served by Sandbach railway station, on the Crewe to Manchester Line, with services operated by Northern to and from as far north as Manchester Oxford Road although there is a branch line north of the station leading to Northwich which is mainly used by goods traffic and express passenger trains heading to Chester while the North Wales Coast Line is unavailable between the city and Crewe, although some organisations have been campaigning for a local passenger service between the two stations.
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Outside the Cinema in Crewe
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