Waterloo Cinema

603/605 Wakefield Road,
Waterloo,
Huddersfield, HD5 9PX

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popcorn_pete
popcorn_pete on March 15, 2017 at 3:44 pm

Closed 17 July 1963 with “A Prize to Arms”

goodshow
goodshow on March 15, 2015 at 1:16 pm

The photo/postcard in the archive section is almost certainly 1930’s.

The hoarding on the wall appears to advertise ‘House of Unrest’ (dir.Leslie Howard Gordon,1931)supported by Stanley Lupino starring in ‘Love Race’(1932).

Buffer
Buffer on March 14, 2015 at 3:26 pm

I now see that the Colour view loaded here is the same one I photocopied in black and white in the library! The trolley bus wires indicate a view before 1968 when the system closed.

Buffer
Buffer on March 14, 2015 at 12:58 pm

There is a colour postcard in Huddersfield Library showing the Waterloo as a cinema.It is lost in a huge press cuttings folder. The “rooms for televison equipment” were mentioned in the 1953 book gazetteer, implying they were always there but perhaps not!

Mike_Blakemore
Mike_Blakemore on March 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm

Space for TV equipment ??? 1931 a bit forward thinking..

Buffer
Buffer on March 13, 2015 at 11:44 am

Opened on 12 October, 1931. Architect CF Mallinson. The Mighty Cinema describes it as having a cubiform façade with shops to left and right of entrance.Space for TV equipment, an orchestra and dressing rooms under stage It closed in 1963, became a bingo club for a month only. Now commercial