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Can anyone remember the classic picture house in fitzhallam square? Anyone know where I can find pictures of it?

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Can anyone remember the classic picture house in fitzhallam square? Anyone know where I can find pictures of it?

 

TRY picture sheffield.com and ask for it!

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Hi ALANRADCLIFF - welcome to the Forum!.:) As pigeon wrote there are some photos of the Classic on the picturesheffield.com site - here is a link to one of them.

 

The Classic was previously the News Theatre, and before that the Electra Palace. You may like to look at this thread, also here.

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Hi Pigeon and Hillsbro thank you for the links very interesting to look at and remember the happy days

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The old News Theatre was where you finished up if you couldn't get in the pictures on a Saturday night (and were too young to drink).

 

Pathe newsreels, travelogues - "Now as the sun goes down, we say farewell to our friendly neighbor to the North", cartoons, 3 Stooges, Joe McDoak and Leon Errol comedy shorts.

 

It was basically TV (before TV) in a public place.

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I seem to recall it being the Cartoon Cinema immediately after the News Theatre? Stand to be corrected though.

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I seem to recall it being the Cartoon Cinema immediately after the News Theatre?
Quite right - that was its name between 1959 and 1962, when it showed cartoons and newsreels only - see here.

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Hi Pigeon and Hillsbro thank you for the links very interesting to look at and remember the happy days

 

I can remember a very nice Indian restaurant nearby cauld have even been underneath the classic:confused:

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I can remember a very nice Indian restaurant nearby cauld have even been underneath the classic:confused:

 

The Indus, it can be seen in the link provided by hillsbro,see post #03),

here is another picturesheffield image

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Can anyone remember the classic picture house in fitzhallam square? Anyone know where I can find pictures of it?

 

Hi The last time l walked through the doors of that building it was called the Elektra and had a snooker hall underneath Cheers Arfer

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Can anyone remember the classic picture

house in fitzhallam square? Anyone know where I can find pictures of it?

------------------http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv309/brian1941/Wigfallsinsq_zps1b0956c6.jpg

 

Hiya Alanradcliff, Sending you pictures of Classic cinama, the

old News Theatre Fitzalan sq.

In the 1950s i went to see Rob Roy at the news theatre and while

queuing outside they were knocking rest of Marples pub down from

the the Bomb blasts. :thumbsup:

 

---------- Post added 10-07-2013 at 20:46 ----------

 

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/vv309/brian1941/Wigfallsinsq_zps1b0956c6.jpg

Heres you picture Alanradcliff, didn't work first time.

Hope you like.

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