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Arfer Mo
09-04-2006, 13:25
does anyone remember the Tivoli picture house in union st across from the union picture house

Greybeard
09-04-2006, 16:39
Don't think you'll get many takers on that Arthur, - according to my sources it was closed down in December 1940 :D Perhaps affected by the blitz ??

Originally a theatre called the Central Hall it was renamed the Tivoli in 1914; first film showing was in 1905.

muddycoffee
09-04-2006, 17:28
Hi guys, it was what is now Ha ha Bar..
pictures of the building on my lost cinemas of sheffield website

Tivoli / central hall page (http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/cinemas/cinepho16.html)

Arfer Mo
09-04-2006, 17:32
Hi Greybeard You are right it was damaged in the blitz, and i worked on it we turned it into a electrical shop, Ialso worked on all that block re glazing Levys tailors, army stores herbalists,Hobbies, going back to the Tivoli before the war it used to have tall ferns in the foyer and while my pal was looking at the future attractions board, I was putting a bent frond over another, a hand dropped on my shoulder it was the manager the police came they said they had been waiting to catch the one who had been doing that , my innocent pleas fell on deaf ears I WAS FINED two and six! No wonder I recall the Tivoli. Arthur.

peterw
09-04-2006, 20:11
There was also the New Tivoli on Union Street, and the Union Street Picture House itself. The Don Cinema at West Bar was, I think, built in 1915. The Tivoli had wooden forms in the front stalls, and on Saturday afternoon the childrens’ matinees were attended by a guy who kept us quiet by wielding an extra long cane in our direction!

tsavo
10-04-2006, 10:10
does anyone remember the Tivoli picture house in union st across from the union picture house
Never saw it as before my time, but wasn't it knicknamed "the ranch-house" due to the number of westerns shown?