Nottingham cinemas

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#105, What a damn fine organ Stu!!

I can think of about a thousand answers to that Paulus and none of them recordable here!

Anyway, here's a local blogger's interpretation of some former local cinema's. The rest of the site is worth a look too, some interesting stuff there.

http://tgc6266gmail....glory-days.html

[mick2me 3,033]

Nottingham has some excellent bloggers

[Thomas 11]

Thomas

The cinema at the bottom of Bath St opposite the park was called the Empress I used to go there in the early 1950s and the one further up St Anns Well Rd was the Cavendish

Thanks lynmee, I went to both of them in the 50s.

[mgread1200 141]

We used to go round all the flea-pits trying to get in to see the X rated films. They would seem like comedies compared to todays standards. Must admit I had forgotten about the "Empress". There was one just on the West Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge, never knew it as a working cinema but remember playing on the demolition site when it was pulled down, the stuff we found there would have filled an antique shop.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

There was one just on the West Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge, never knew it as a working cinema but remember playing on the demolition site when it was pulled down, the stuff we found there would have filled an antique shop.

The Globe ? http://www.pictureth...003841&prevUrl=

[mgread1200 141]

Sorry no Cliff ton other side of tb just on the corner where you turned down for the trent end at Forest FC think the Outlaws bar may have been built there later. I went to both the Globe and the Grove in the Meadows when they were open, saw "love me Tender" at the Globe & "The Great Locomotive Chase". My memory is hazy about the Outlaws bar I know it was a large hotel built there with a bow front, bankrupted one company and another finished it.

Just a quick look on google it might have been called "The Plaza"

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Don't think I'd ever seen this photo before, until I found it now.....

http://www.pictureth...000313&prevUrl=

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Might this be the one?

The Tudor, Central Avenue, Bread and Lard Island

http://tgc6266gmail.blogspot.co.uk/p/nottingham-cinemas-glory-days.html

[mgread1200 141]

Thats the one Cliff Ton they did nothing with the site untill much later than 55 with much of the foundations and lower building just left.

[Trevor S 2,003]

The cinema on the Wes Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge was definitely called the Plaza. Passed it every day for several years between RoT and Arnold High School. Even back then in late 50s, it was half demolished but the front entrance doors and surrounds still stood, complete with concertina steel gates across the entrance to what would have presumably the foyer etc. Remember the colour as blue and white and the space between the steel gates and the entrance doors weas full of rubbish. Funny how they left the entrance way standing for so long. Next door to the site was a driving school and next to that was a florist shop where I bought my Mum a hyancinth in a pot for her birthday or something. Forget what was next but just round the corner was Mansells.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

I've found another photo of the Plaza

[poohbear 1,360]

I can see the entrance to an Egyptian tomb...but where's the Plaza?...

[Compo 10,328]

It looks like a robot with its mouth open!

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Here's another which hasn't been mentioned so far (apart from in Bamber's massive list on Post #35)

The Imperial on Wilford Road; maybe a few memories for any ex-Meadows residents.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Drove along Sneinton Boulevard a few days ago and noticed the former Dale cinema has been demolished. It hadn't been a cinema since the 1950s, and in later years it was a factory, although still obviously a cinema from the outside.

https://maps.google....186.47,,0,-4.59

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I've often noticed this building on Middle Gate off Stodman Street that leads to the market place in Newark and wondered if it was an old cinema/

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=newark+map&hl=en&ll=53.076388,-0.810604&spn=0.001234,0.002411&hnear=Newark-on-Trent,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.076328,-0.811183&panoid=FUQCBUolWTigYN1vA96OoQ&cbp=12,350.94,,0,-13.42

[Michael Booth 7,364]

Nice to see your post of 'The Dale' cinema, Cliff Ton (#130). I used to go there every Saturday morning when I was a kid. The surrounding area looks a bit different now, though.

[mudgie49 401]

There were two cinemas on Beeston high street, within a few hundred yards of each other, the Palace and the Palladium.

The last film I recall seeing at the Palace as a kid, was 'Reach for the Sky',with Kenneth Moore.

I think they were converted into super-markets, or whatever.

Can't remember them being demolished,while I lived in Beeston.

[littlebro 234]

Excellent Beeston history site

http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/landmark_cinemas.shtml

[barclaycon 569]

Yes, excellent site that littlebro

Thanks for posting.

I enjoyed reading about the Essoldo - which I went to many times in the 70's.

Great kind of 'art-deco' building. Sad to see it pulled down and replaced with an office block.

[Trevor S 2,003]

http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;PTPN001205&pos=10&action=zoom&id=92729

The old Savoy Stu....opened in 1935.

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Thanks very much, Trevor!

[radfordred 6,284]

Sorry if it's already been posted?

[Fynger 841]

Nice but the editing was a bit suspect.

[SeanF 12]

Interested to learn that they demolished the old Dale Cinema . . . I daren't ask what they plan to build on the site!!!!!