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_Ste_ #427537 27th Aug 2010 3:20pm
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lol, it`s her knees, whereabouts was that photo taken derek?
Is it the sidewalk at the front of the building?


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You've lowered the tone, I was thinking higher than that!!

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The PALACE was he name of the cinema on NEW Chester Road , Rock Ferry .
It started life as an Ice Rink-Yes-Amazing isn,t it ! Then became The Electric Palace owned by Mr, Saronie . We lived just around the corner from it and the Sat
morning Matinees were very popular . It became PALACE MOTORS after closing . Now the
Doorstore is on the site.There are 2 or 3 good books on the old cinemas of Wirral showing
interior and exterior shots of them all . Clive Garner contributed to most of them but the poor
old boy is now suffering with dementia in a home somewhere in Wallasey.

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Sorry to hear about Clive Garner's condition. If any one needed information and history on Merseyside's cinemas he was the man, writing the books, contributing to tv programmes and collecting memorabilia. He had a cinema in his house and a film collection.
I wonder what will happen to his valuable collection of Merseyside cine nostalgia.
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clive garner has recently passed away rip

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I remember the Gaumont by Birkenhead Park, and the Roxy near Charing Cross that shows my age lol

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the roxy(i think thats what it was called) on bebington road where tescos is now ,used to go there on a saturday afternoon for the kids matinees,the man on the door was called cyril he looked a bit like benny hill.

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Originally Posted by articblast
the roxy(i think thats what it was called) on bebington road where tescos is now ,used to go there on a saturday afternoon for the kids matinees,the man on the door was called cyril he looked a bit like benny hill.


That was the Regal. I used to go there too.


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ah the regal, me memory aint what it used to be.

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Originally Posted by articblast
me memory aint what it used to be.


Join the club. grin


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The Continental in Wallasey had been adapted from the original old Wallasey Magistrates Courts ( not the later Manor Road one as described in a local picture history book).

Other Wallasey cinemas were:

1.The Royal, King Street, a former army drill hall, then a cinema and now Rocket Ronnie's snooker club.

2.The Marina , Brighton Street now gone.

3.The Gaumont (later Unit 4) King Street now gone.

4.The Queens Poulton Road, later a garage, then a supermarket now gone.

5.The Capitol Liscard, later the ABC just the facade remains.

6.The Winter Gardens Atherton Street New Brighton, now gone.

7.The Phoenix Wallasey Village (earlier the Cosmo?) now gone.

8.The Court Victoria Road , New Brighton, now gone.

9. The Trocadera Victoria Road New Brighton later a supermarket now gone.

10. And one in Seaview Road whose name I cannot remember but happily remains even though it's a show shop. I think it began with an R.

Has anyone seen the former cinema in Llangollen? It's used as a huge second hand book shop. I didn't know it had been a cinema until looking around I noticed a large brass letter screwed into the floor. I knew this was an aisle letter an looking up saw the projection room windows and the remains of the stage. Don't know what it was called.

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10. And one in Seaview Road whose name I cannot remember but happily remains even though it's a show shop. I think it began with an R.



(The Palace) Then it was Lennons supermarket and now its the Shoemarket..

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I remember it opening as Lennon's. My elder sister dragged me there to get the 'free gift' a tiny paper cup of diluted lime juice. People queued for that. Just like when the Trocadera opened as a Lo Cost supermarket and the first 100 or so people were givena frozen chicken ...the police had to keep the crowd in control. Different days.

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