cinemas

[West Ender]

slightly out westender,the hippodrome was down the street where the bus depot was,the back of it was on ellisons tenement.oops we musta wrote that together beechy lol

The memory plays tricks when you get a bit long in the tooth. You're right, of course.

 

[cashman]

The memory plays tricks when you get a bit long in the tooth. You're right, of course.

only reason for my better memory- we used to play in it as kids,had great fun in the dim hole,using the trapdoors from under the stage.

 

[beechy]

only reason for my better memory- we used to play in it as kids,had great fun in the dim hole,using the trapdoors from under the stage.

i thought you would be to busy looking after kids falling out of trees

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

We have some photos on here somewhere of the Hippodrome. I remember when it was still there but in decline.

 

[jambutty]

Wasn't there one called 'The Regal' too?

The Regal? That was the Odeon before it was the Odeon.

There was the Queens Hall in Church and the Palladium in Ossy and Great Harwood had a cinema too as did Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors. Can’t remember the names though.

Although not a cinema don’t forget the Hippodrome theatre.
Plus the various dance halls like The Ritz, Conservative Club, Joe Mort’s, Knowlmere Street and Church Con.

There was lots for people to do in their leisure time in those days.

 

[jambutty]

Way, way back, the Hippodrome Theatre was across the road from those two cinemas. I remember Frank Randle buying the Hippodrome, I saw a few plays and pantomimes there, but I don't think it lasted very long.

The Hippodrome theatre was on Ellison Street just above the bus and tram depot and next to the Tenement where the fair used to be put at around Easter.

 

[Royboy39]

The Hippodrome theatre was on Ellison Street just above the bus and tram depot and next to the Tenement where the fair used to be put at around Easter.

Memories OK for that one Jim.......Thats exactly where it was.

There is a thread to the Hippodrome:
Hippodrome - Accrington Web

 

[mrjdallen]

why now have a vue in accrington and blackburn surely they could have choosen a different brand of cinema

 

[beechy]

why now have a vue in accrington and blackburn surely they could have choosen a different brand of cinema

is a cinema not just a cinema
nowadays
they used to be called picture houses
all with solid sounding names as previously quoted

 

[cashman]

Remember Rock Around the Clock think at the Empire, people bopping in the ailses, a young cashy was mesmerised. never seen the like before or since at a picture house.

 

[mrjdallen]

goign again tonight - sherk. i must be mad

 

[jambutty]

A blast from the past with Wilson & Kepple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYSMk4BLto&mode=related&search

 

[lindsay ormerod]

I think my new workplace; Boots, is on the site of the old cinema; I haven't seen any ghosts yet, maybe they were specific cinema haunting ghosts with no interest in relocating ?

 

[shazfury1]

I agree, Billy Fury was always my hero, still play his songs regularly.

 

[MargaretR]

A blast from the past with Wilson & Kepple

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYSMk4BLto&mode=related&search"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYSMk4BLto&mode=related&search[/URL]

I enjoyed the link thanks - reminded me of the time I saw Nat Jackley do it on stage at Blackpool (must have been late 40s)

 

[andrewb]

why now have a vue in accrington and blackburn surely they could have choosen a different brand of cinema

I think its the brand that chooses the town

Vue can make more money by having a Vue in both towns rather than just one, and they built a bigger cinema showing more things than the old Blackburn one so that ended up closing didn't it?

 

[Jim Procter]

What about the Hippodrome on Blackburn Road? I think when it closed it became Accringtons first Supermarket.

 

[MargaretR]

What about the Hippodrome on Blackburn Road? I think when it closed it became Accringtons first Supermarket.

The Hippodrome was at the bottom of Ellison St. (a theatre not a cinema)

On Blackburn Rd, between Ellison St and Oxford St, was the building which housed the 1st Accy ASDA in 1962. The building burnt down a few years ago whilst it was Glynn Webb, who built its present replacement, (recently taken over by another similar trader whose name escapes me).

Before ASDA in 1962 - I think it was 'car sales' - but if anyone knows different, please say so.

 

[beechy]

it was indeed a car sales room
nightingales car showrooms

 

[Tony Ireland]

Prior to that even It was the coop which was was in it's heyday at that time and owned several properties in the area.the property across oxford st up to the doctors was all coop down to blake st.
happy times?