Old cinemas of sheffield

[Alanbro 10]

I know I've gone off the Old cinemas of sheffield plot, but we've just been to the UGC Cinema at Centretainment and there was a queue stretching almost outside. If we'd have queued we'd have missed the film we wanted to see anyway. Bring back the old cinemas!

The first Cinema I went to was the Scala at Walkley. I was a little Alanbro then, I suppose you could call me Big Albro now!

[Alan52 10]

There used to be a Cinema on Eastern Ave Arbourthorne Estate closed round about 1964? Last movie was Moby Dick?

[Plain Talker 11]

Originally posted by Alan52

There used to be a Cinema on Eastern Ave Arbourthorne Estate closed round about 1964? Last movie was Moby Dick?

 

That cinema was "the Carlton", also known as "the Icebox" as it was reknowned for being Bl**dy freezing in cold weather.(according to my grandparents, who used to go there)

 

It was a shame that it went to rack and ruin, from the late 70's on, because it was an architecturally interesting building.

 

The construction was concrete, but it was used in an innovative method for the 20's/30's when it was built.

 

As I understand it it was the only one of it's kind (and maybe should have been listed, and preserved, rather than being left to rot, as it was.)

 

I know a little bit of the history of it from the 70's onward.

 

It became a warehouse for a light-bulb factory (it was called "omega" and owned by a Sikh chap.

 

That had gone by the early / mid 80's. the building became more and more derelict. Kids were brealing in, and setting fire after fire, throughout the building, and because of the heat, the concrete became structurally unsound (As I understand it).

 

I lived beside the cinema, and my heart was in my mouth, daily, when I saw the youngsters who had broken into the building, running around, and clambering, on the narrow parapet, four-or-five storeys up. (I had visions of one of them falling the sheer drop onto the pavement beneath , and being killed, or maimed.)

 

from 1989, we local residents pleaded, and pleaded with the council to tear the building down as it was dangerous, unsightly, and beyond repair.

 

The council's response was to claim that their hands were tied.

 

Until they could serve a compulsory purchase notice in the owner, they could do nothing, they claimed.

 

we responded that the Dangerous premises act gave the council the powers to demolish a dangerous building, and demand payment from the owner.

 

they would not do it, bless them!!

 

About five years ago, the council finally traced the bloke in Brighton, who owned the building. They could finally serve the compulsory purchase order on him.

 

once the land and the building were acquired, the council demolished the cinema, cleared the land, and the land to the side of the cinema, where the garages to the flats had been.

 

On the land now, is a large-ish cluster of retirement/ sheltered flats, called "Carlton Mews".

 

PT

[all4_ofus 10]

I remember the abbeydale cinema, it was on abbeydale rd, can't remember exactly how we got to it.. the heeley cinema was on what was called heeley bottom, I think it is called london rd, I'm not sure. as for whimpy's there was once one on the moor

Originally posted by bigkev

did anybody ever visit the studio 7 cinema on the wicker and how about the classic cinema in fiztallan square what were the others called the abc was one of them the gaumont,oden does anybody know where the oden once stood and can anybody remember abbeydale cinema or the heeley cinema and can anybody tell me where they all once stood now that sheffield as changed beyond recognistion. can anybody remember where the whimpy cafe's use to be in sheffield you watch someone will come out with the statement there was know whimpy cafes in sheffield but oh yes there was in the 60's and early part of the 70's infact if you walk just up from boots the chemist on your way to W H Smiths you would have passed one where I think is the game shop now stands can anybody remember the sarsaparilla shop on abbeydale road it was near abbeydale cinema when I was a kid and I use to go swimming at heeley baths the one place we would head for was the sarsaparilla shop when we came out of the baths you could buy the drink in either half pint glasses or pint glasses to look at it you would think it was a very flat stout, I wonder how many other people will remember it.

[bellis 10]

Originally posted by all4_ofus

I remember the abbeydale cinema, it was on abbeydale rd, can't remember exactly how we got to it.. the heeley cinema was on what was called heeley bottom, I think it is called london rd, I'm not sure. as for whimpy's there was once one on the moor

 

 

last film i saw there was mary poppins around 1972 btw did the abbeydale cinema turn into a rock disco in the 80s ?

[muddycoffee 10]

Originally posted by panda79

last film i saw there was mary poppins around 1972 btw did the abbeydale cinema turn into a rock disco in the 80s ?

The Ballroom became KGB for a while which you can read about on http://www.rockreunited.co.uk

[WallBuilder 10]

Thank-you muddycoffee I was just about to scream, the ballroom was the Court school of Dancing for many years and had possibly the best sprung floor in the city, it became the Kay Gee Bee and did indeed hold 'rock nights' the word 'disco' just doesn't sound right when put with 'rock'.

The Friends of Abbeydale Picture Palace are holding guided tours of the interior this weekend according to Calendar.

[holberry 10]

back to the original them the wimpy bar on the moor was near the bottom of cambridge st the building is now the nottingham building society i think

[briggy1967 10]

Used to work at the studio 5-6-7 for 2 years and left to work at the new odeon cinema (now kingdom).Just after i left the place closed down because the owners werent paying any taxes...in fact they werent paying for anything (inc the rental fee for the films!).

The owner and his wife were unfortunatly both major drug addicts and used to live in his very small office...very sad.

[stevie1957 10]

Originally posted by bigkev

did anybody ever visit the studio 7 cinema on the wicker and how about the classic cinema in fiztallan square.

I¡¦ll put my hand up to the classic¡Kbut not studio 7¡K.you¡¦ll have to ask muddy about that. Studio 7 use to show soft porn¡K¡K.bugger so did the classic ƒ¼

 

The Classic once showed Brue Lee films all through the night. Halfway through we was served hot soup¡K.

[Jossman 10]

Hillsborough had the Kinema, Pheonix and at the top end the Park Cinema. I remember as a lad around 1949-50 getting in free if you took 2 jamjars, complete with the rubber seal.

[burnttoast 10]

Remember the Rosco on Shalesmoor...nicknamed the bug hut. The ushers used to come round in the interval and spray everything and the audience with dissinfectant...your mates knew where you had been cos they could smell you a mile off..I once got a clip off my mam and told " keep art o theer or thal catch summat"She wernt daft ,she could smell the "perfume"And knew there was a "mucky "film on....