Three vintage views from October 1949 (playing the Odeon release):
Main entrance and adjacent parade of shop units: View link
Side exterior wall of main foyer: View link
Parade of shops and main entrance: View link
lostmemory; Sorry not available on DVD. It was released here in the UK on VHS tape back in 1992 by Warner who first released it in UK cinemas in 1962 (ABC release in Associated British Cinemas when I first saw it). It’s a good film, I watched it again, on TV here in London, a few months ago. It’s in b&w though.
The ‘Miss B. Elmore’ billed on the poster pictured above was actually Belle Elmore, a music hall artiste and wife of Dr. Crippen, who murdered her in 1910.
A fish & chip shop was allowed to open in one of the retail units. Normally this use for not allowed as the smell of cooking managed to get into the cinema. However, here at Stafford, I believe one of the businesses demolished when the theatre was built, was a fish & chip shop, and the proviso for demolition rested on a ‘new home’ when the Odeon was built.
A series 10 photographs taken in January 2008(click on the forward arrow on the ‘kencta photostream’):
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2230713287/
At the end of those 10 current photographs, I have added this 1927 view of the auditorium, as seen from the stage:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/2231737794/
A January 2008 photograph of the former Green’s Playhouse (now Mecca Bingo Club) with the former Classic Cinema just beyond:
http://flickr.com/photos/elizmar/2154149747/
The entrance on the right and the former Classic Cinema in the centre:
http://flickr.com/photos/elizmar/2154147843/
The former Classic Cinema can be seen here on the right, in this night photograph from 1st January 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/elizmar/2154940888/
A similar photograph, but also showing the adjacent former Green’s Playhouse (now Mecca Bingo Club) entrance:
http://flickr.com/photos/elizmar/2154147843/
The rear of the buildings, Green’s Playhouse (left) and Classic Cinema (centre):
http://flickr.com/photos/elizmar/2074440436/
The Dara Cinema can be seen ‘lit up’ on the left of this night time street scene of Naas. Photograph taken around November 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/paulrailton/511169450/
The closed Oscar Cinema, as seen in August 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/ichor/1270729478/
Photographed in January 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/16913367@N02/2162740421/
Photographed as a single screen in 1995:
http://flickr.com/photos/yellowsummer/2223006124/
Some photographs:
Exterior in May 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/senojbor/521419788/
Exterior in December 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/340872260/
In April 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/455479909/
In September 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/1438615459/
Close-up in August 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/mahadelic/1719929680/
As the Palladium Entertainment Centre (Cinema & Bingo) in the 1990’s:
http://flickr.com/photos/mattwood/111625450/
A recent photograph of the Palace Cinema:
View link
Three vintage views from October 1949 (playing the Odeon release):
Main entrance and adjacent parade of shop units:
View link
Side exterior wall of main foyer:
View link
Parade of shops and main entrance:
View link
Current photographs of the Apollo Bingo Club:
http://www.apollocinemas.co.uk/bingo/rhylpics.html
lostmemory; Sorry not available on DVD. It was released here in the UK on VHS tape back in 1992 by Warner who first released it in UK cinemas in 1962 (ABC release in Associated British Cinemas when I first saw it). It’s a good film, I watched it again, on TV here in London, a few months ago. It’s in b&w though.
The ‘Miss B. Elmore’ billed on the poster pictured above was actually Belle Elmore, a music hall artiste and wife of Dr. Crippen, who murdered her in 1910.
A small exterior photograph of the Palace Theatre here:
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/56635/
Ian, I have no record of the Albert Hall being on the Listed buildings register. Still looking forward to your pics when you manage to up-load them.
Some exterior photographs from October 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/52962040/
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/206611807/
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/52961934/
Close-ups of details:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/52962077/
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/52961999/
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/21651195/
A full view in January 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/216142610/
A vintage photograph from the late 1940’s or early 1950’s as the Princess Cinema:
http://flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/232020097/
A January 2006 photograph of the facade:
View link
A recent exterior view from May 2007:
http://flickr.com/photos/bettsy1970/502467243/
Two current interior views and some details here:
http://www.aberystwyth.org.uk/att04.shtml
A recent photograph of the former Regal Cinema in its current use as a bar.nightclub:
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A vintage view of the Odeon Bury St. Edmunds in the early 1960’s:
View link
The filming location could have been the Capitol Cinema, Radford, Nottingham /theaters/22609/
A fish & chip shop was allowed to open in one of the retail units. Normally this use for not allowed as the smell of cooking managed to get into the cinema. However, here at Stafford, I believe one of the businesses demolished when the theatre was built, was a fish & chip shop, and the proviso for demolition rested on a ‘new home’ when the Odeon was built.
Thanks smoothie. I found the image. Excellent find! http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/
A photograph from November 2006:
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A photograph from October 2007:
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