Can anyone help me with the years the Rex Cinema closed and also when the Woodthorpe Hotel closed at Intake.

Rex must have been around 1982 and the Woodthorpe about 1997????

Anyone know?

Rex closed December 23rd 1982.

Demolished October the following year.

Blimey I'm feeling old now. I saw the Buddy Holly story at The Rex

Blimey I'm feeling old now. I saw the Buddy Holly story at The Rex

That's not old. I saw the Christmas Carol at the Rex - the original Alistair Sims version when it was first released. Also, such classics as Down Among the Z Men with Harry Secombe and the Goons and Genevieve with John Gregson. Now that's old. Anyone remember either of those last two films btw or am I really dating myself?

Wasn't The Woodthorpe Hotel really called The Woodthorpe Arms?

Mike

Wasn't The Woodthorpe Hotel really called The Woodthorpe Arms?

Mike

Spot on, it was called the Woodthorpe Arms.

I imagine the Rex could do quite well if opened as a picture house again.It would be nice to go locally instead of trailing to the big complexes at Meadowhall etc.

That's not old. I saw the Christmas Carol at the Rex - the original Alistair Sims version when it was first released. Also, such classics as Down Among the Z Men with Harry Secombe and the Goons and Genevieve with John Gregson. Now that's old. Anyone remember either of those last two films btw or am I really dating myself?

Nah

I can remember seeing genevieve with john gregson amd Kenneth More cant remeber the names of the two ladies though

UMMMMMMMMM must be older than I thought LOL

I can remember seeing that as well didn't realise it was that old:o I also remember seeing The Robe and Carousell. I can't remember what the first film was that I saw there though.

Nah

I can remember seeing genevieve with john gregson amd Kenneth More cant remeber the names of the two ladies though

UMMMMMMMMM must be older than I thought LOL

Dinah Sheridan (Jenny Hanley's mum) & Kay Kendall

went on my first date with my late husband to the Rex in 1957. We were both 14 years old. The film was Lets be happy...can't remember who was in it! We used that cinema until it closed down. It was a really good cinema...it was a shame to see it go! At that time it cost 1/6d to get in ..downstairs!
Cal.

Do you remember that there used to be a car auction at the rear of the Woodthorpe Arms. I used the pub at lunch time on a regular daily basis for about a month, when I came home from Cyprus in 1962.

As for the Rex, I can remember when a kid could get in down at the front for 7d, in the 1940's.

Mike

I'm sure the Woodthorpe closed earlier than 97, maybe late 95 early 96, my mother worked there so will check with her tomorrow!!

The last film I saw at the Rex was Physco and although I must have seen many others there, I can't remember them. Sheffield had that many cinemas during the fifties to early sixties that it's sometimes difficult to place them.

I seem to remember that the Woodthorpe had topless barmaids just before it closed down. Also recall seeing fights outside it on a Saturday night.

Did what used to be the Lo-Cost ever used to be a cinema, across from the Royal Oak pub?

I seem to remember that the Woodthorpe had topless barmaids just before it closed down. Also recall seeing fights outside it on a Saturday night.

Did what used to be the Lo-Cost ever used to be a cinema, across from the Royal Oak pub?


if I remember rightly the REX was completely demolished. I think the supermarket (that what we called it back then even though it's that small) was built on part of the site where as the REX was a bigger building that took up quite a bit of the sloping car park as well ? However, I am going back thirty odd years and my memory ain't what it used to be.

The supermarket used to be next door to the Rex and when the Rex was demolished it became the car park for the supermarket. I think that they have now built it on the Rex site though.

check out this queue (http://www.telspatch.co.uk/sheffield/sheffpics/rex%20cinema%20-%20intake%20-%20circa%201960s%20-%20submitted%20by%20john%20zeun.jpg)

check out this queue (http://www.telspatch.co.uk/sheffield/sheffpics/rex%20cinema%20-%20intake%20-%20circa%201960s%20-%20submitted%20by%20john%20zeun.jpg)

I can remember standing in queues like that before the TV made life so much better. I wonder if I'm in that queue?:D

I can remember standing in queues like that before the TV made life so much better. I wonder if I'm in that queue?:D

Lassie come home, starring Roddy McDowell.

Must have been mid 1940's. I think films did the rounds for quite a lot longer in those days, though.

check out this queue (http://www.telspatch.co.uk/sheffield/sheffpics/rex%20cinema%20-%20intake%20-%20circa%201960s%20-%20submitted%20by%20john%20zeun.jpg)

A lot of those people in the queue don't have kids with them and they're going to see a Lassie film. Imagine that nowadays? Come to think of it, my wife and I did go to see that Disney film "Up" not too long ago, so adults going to kids' movies still happens.