The new Gaumont opened 29th March 1937, situated at the corner of Park Road and Dingle Lane. At the beginning of the war anti-aircraft gunners were stationed on the cinema roof and took over the woman’s staff room as their quarters.

Harrington Board School was one of Liverpool’s earliest schools (dating back to 1815 or earlier as Harrington Free School). The building on Mill Street had a long frontage with a glass verandah which provided shelter for the patrons. Click here for more information. “I worked at Vickers Armstrong Ltd making the Wellington bombers – and we were not allowed to tell anyone what we were doing. ( Log Out /  With the successful application for a live entertainment in 1927 the Picturedrome became a lively place to visit. for our site. Follow. The Manager said we could stay at the cinema until the all clear was sounded, but my Mum was worried my Dad would be looking for us so we started to (...Read full memory). Dec 7, 2019 - Explore ahtombell's board "DINGLE" on Pinterest. Church Street 1965. The first cinematograph license was granted on 6th March 1914. You could go to the cinema for halfpenny, we’d get a half packet of broken biscuits and stale cake for us to share, we had no bananas because the war was on”. However, they had a lucky escape when a land mine fell just 100 yards away in Grosvenor Terrance, near to the home of the cinema manager, Norman H. Lockett.

Read and share The only reference to the opening date, is the first cinematograph license on 26th January 1922. . The life span of this cinema was short lived as was that of the Sefton Park Picturdrome because no sound equipment was installed and so closed in 1929 around the time of the talkies with the building being demolished in 1935. It also had Westinghouse rectifiers that eliminated the use of noisy motors and also refreshed and changed the air every 10 minutes. Log in to Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family and people you know. The UK’s leading publisher of local photographs since 1860, Coronavirus: The feature film was another comedy My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell.

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We used to go to the Jamie – we’d walk everywhere because we had no bus fare, Point taken however, I think it’s more nearer to South Liverpool than Liverpool 1 and the cinemas where put into areas so maybe if you can suggest another area than town that you think is fitting. © Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2020. We are attempting to get a pictorial and narrative history of our two great communities L8 and L1. The building was demolished for road widening, Dave Furlong talks about his father-in-law who was projectionist.

DINGLE Collection by Amy Ince. With seating for 850 patrons it was stated in the Kineatograph and Lantern Weekly on  30th January 1913  that the cinema was  popular just 5 weeks after opening. Browse The Beresford survived until the 1950’s running a mixed programme but due to it’s poor situation was one of the company’s first closures. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The Gaumont was forced to close on 17th September 1966 with Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. ( Log Out /  Artists including George Formby senior entertained here.

( Log Out /  On the 9th June ‘talkies’ arrived with Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser, which at most cinemas ended live entertainment. The building was large and imposing offering a great source of entertainment to the population of South Liverpool. The building was later demolished due to new road works. With so many pubs having closed down in recent decades, all their former customers have are their memories. See the The building was large and imposing offering a great source of entertainment to the population of South Liverpool. A fairly large suburban cinema with seating for an audience of 1,047 of which 250 were in the balcony. As an on-line business operating in a rural area and the surrounding area. Originally built as a music hall which was erected on the site of an old coach works which opened 11th December 1894, with a variety of performances 7pm and 9pm.

The photographs captured some of the many schools in the Dingle. 23 photo books See more ideas about Liverpool, Merseyside, Liverpool history. A purpose built, stadium type cinema and similar to Kensington Picturdrome had seating capacity for an audience of 870. those pioneering days we have evolved sophisticated and The cinema closed on 11th March 1959 with the programme, The Young Guns, starring Russ Tamblyn and Hold Back The Night, starring John Payne and Mona Freeman. to help give you the best experience we can. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The cinema was situated at the corner of Beresford Road and Park Road. flexible offerings for business. Admission fees were 3d -9d with a daily matinee and continuous performance from 6.30pm. With new interest in the 1980’s the doors opened again for special performance with the famous blind organist, Billy Ellis and Ray Curtis playing the Wurlitzer.

The building was late nineteenth century (it was on the site of what is now Cain’s Brewery car park). See All Maps Map of Dingle in 1896 ... Memories of Dingle Read and share your memories of Dingle itself or of a particular photo of Dingle. Beaufort Board School.

The auditorium was wide with a seating capacity of 1,500 stalls and balcony. Sadly attendances decreased and closed for good in 1998.

The seats had upholstered backs and armrests, covered in wine-coloured velvet. The manager of the Gaumont used to hit you with a rubber truncheon to keep the kids in order, “I liked James Cagney, a good all-rounder, he could sing, dance and act. It had seating for 960 patrons stalls and gallery, however the original seating capacity was 1,100. From the 1940’s – 1965 performances were continuous throughout the day and changed after this due to the decline in attendances. Don't remember Wades though.

The new Gaumont opened 29th March 1937, situated at the corner of Park Road and Dingle Lane. The cinema was well attended in the early days however suffered with strong competition near by like the Rialto. “My Grandmother born in 1875 went to the Park Palace, she used to describe what it was like inside and told me a story I’ve never forgot”. A seven-piece orchestra gave musical accompaniment up until ‘talkies’ arrived on 8th January 1930. It had two entrances one at the side for the stalls, the cheaper seats and another at front of house for the gallery, the more expensive. I had a bet with my wife one time and I won so she had to pay for us to go the Gaumont and she’s never forgiven me” (Townsend lane). Send a personal message with a photo to anyone, anywhere. When Tricia Porter moved to the notorious Liverpool 8 area in 1974, she was warned to carry a cosh – but emerged with a vivid portrait of a tight-knit community, Liverpool - Park Hill Road and Mill Street, 1960s by ronramstew, via Flickr, the old fire station on speke road Garston liverpool, Pineapple pub,Park Rd, Liverpool Barbershop Harmony Club used to practice here. As a cinema it opened on 21st December 1908. This attendance was good for this luxury cinema showing first suburban GB circuit release films. we are open! In 1937 the company opened the New Gaumont, also on Park Road, providing stronger competition. The Theatre changed it’s name to Park Palace in 1914. It was erected on the site of an furniture repository which had been destroyed by a fire in the early 1920’s. The projection room had two GB machines and was the first in Liverpool to  install the Western Electric Mirrophonic sound system. The managing director of the cinema T Halliwell Hughes, was granted the first cinemotograph license on 6th December 1912. ( Log Out /  We lived in Mill Street in the Dingle and I remember one night my Mum took me and my younger sister to the Mayfair cinema, we saw the picture and as it was ending the Sirens went. Since Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.

Silent pictures were accompanied with a small orchestra. In 1860 Frith began supplying photos to retailers. The Wurlitzer entertained during the interlude. The cinema was pleasantly decorated, the flooring foyer area was black and white tiles and the walls had a green tiled dado, while the upper part was panelled. Just to note however I did reference other histories regarding cinemas and they too put Dingle.

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