Woodthorpe Hotel & Rex Cinema Intake

[minnehoma 10]

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?

[toploader 10]

Rex closed December 23rd 1982.

 

Demolished October the following year.

[BrightonYork 10]

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

[soft ayperth 11]

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?

[Puffin4 10]

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

 

Mike

[lazarus 68]

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

 

Mike

 

Spot on, it was called the Woodthorpe Arms.

[stewpot54 10]

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.

[mature5011 10]

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

[SILLY 10]

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.

[Hal9001 11]

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

[cal1943 10]

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.

[Puffin4 10]

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

Edited March 15, 2010 by Puffin4